. Talyealye & Karto, Hungerford QLD 4493

Location:225 km north west of Bourke (N.S.W.) and 205 km south west of Cunnamulla (Qld)on the N.S.W./QLD border. The Talyealye homestead is 17 km from the village of Hungerford.Description:Talyealye; Western Lands leases; numbers 2919, 4279, 4933 and 6788. The total area is 156,000 acres.Karto: Grazing Homestead Lease. Total area is 104,000 acres.Services: Rural power, telephone, satellite T.V. reception, twice weekly mail service from both N.S.W. and Cunnamulla, Qld. Talyealye homestead airstrip; 1,000 metres long. Karto homestead airstrip; 1,600 metres long. Third airstrip located at Weebah shearing shed. The Royal Flying Doctor Service hold medical clinics in Hungerford every 6 weeks. Country: Principally woollybutt grass, Mulga country with some stone ridge, Paroo River and flooded creek flats.Principal timber includes mulga, box, beefwood and rosewood with coolabah, river box and yapunyah on the Paroo. Large areas of low mulga and some shrubs. Most areas of the property have a good cover and good body of grasses which include woollybutt, silvergrass and neverfail, as well as a good balance of saltbush and clean edible salines.Rainfall: Approximately 300 mm per annum average. Station records since 1947.Water: Watered by 23 watering points, including 17 bores set up with solar systems, power, gensets or windmills (not all equipped and working). Permanent and semi permanent waterholes on the Paroo River system. Seasonal run off from soft understone country on Karto which also has the Moomindary Creek system dispersed through the property.Improvements: Talyealye: The homestead (56 m2) is a very comfortable four bedroom, two bathroom, solid brick residence with extensive living areas, open fireplace and breezeways nestled beside a lagoon on the Paroo. Other buildings include quarters, garage, workshop, hangars and 2x6 stand steel framed shearing sheds. Two sets of sheep yards are capable of handling 5,000 sheep each and there are two sets of cattle yards.Karto: The homestead is a highset, weatherboard residence with four bedrooms. Other buildings include a 6 stand, steel framed shearing shed, modern 13 person shearers' quarters, garages, and workshop. One set of sheep yards handles 4,000 sheep and there are two sets of cattle yards - the main yards are new, all steel and capable of handling 500 head.Fencing: The properties are run as nine main grazing paddocks with smaller holding paddocks.The Queensland/New South Wales border fence forms the northern boundary of Talyealye and the southern boundary of Karto. This is a patrolled fence. The balance of fencing for Talyealye is mostly 5/6 plain wire and barb. Karto is predominantly 5/6 plain wire for internal fencing and the remaining Karto boundary fencing is 6 ft. netting. The Currawinya National Park borders Karto, on the eastern side.Carrying Capacity: New South Wales L.L.S. and Queensland D.P.I. combined rated carrying capacity for the aggregation is 21,500 D.S.E.Agents' Comments:Having tested the market previously the vendor is now committed to sell and Talyealye and Karto represent an opportunity to purchase a low cost, large scale western grazing operation that will run cattle, sheep or goats with carbon farming potential.The aggregation offers sheer size and balance of country enabling diversity and large numbers to ensure high production capacity whilst affording the astute pastoralist an opportunity to acquire a large scale grazing enterprise with relative ease.Sale in conjunction with GM Lewelyn & Co.P: 02 6548 2008F: 02 6548 2553