Area: 703.96 hectares or 1,739.485 acres
* Quality mixed farming property close to Mt Barker and Albany.
* Good mixed soil types from loams, gravel loams to some areas of sand with approx 590 cleared hectares.
* Good fertiliser history and crop averages over the years.
* Very good water supplies from nineteen dams and 3 bore's.
* Well fenced with plain wire electric and ringlock on steel - wood posts with a laneway system to some of the 25 paddocks.
* Improvements include, two homesteads, two shearing sheds, sheep yards, very good cattle yards, machinery sheds & grain silo's.
Colmore presents as an excellent mixed farming property of also very suitable for stock only or crop only. The property has good serviceable facilities that are well located and set up for ease of stock movement and also cropping programs. The property is also suitable for hay farming, excellent facilities and located in a good reliable region of Western Australia.
Current stock numbers are at 90 breeders with the balance crop, 2012 season estimated crop area of wheat at 336 hectares and Canola at 180 hectares.
Prime location situated in highly sort after region of the state and located in the Great Southern, close to Mt Barker, City of Albany and the prime Mt Barker & Porongurup wine region.
kalgan plains and bendi Creek are for sale as a whole or in separte locations. STC's.
Location:
The property is situated approximately 28 km east of Mt Barker and 58 kilometres North of Albany on Washpool Road Woogenellup and some 390 kms South East of Perth in the Shire of Plantagenet.
Services:
Well serviced from the local Kamballup General store only minutes away and also Mt Barker has great government facilities, numerous sporting clubs and great country town atmosphere. The City of Albany is also only a short drive away and has excellent facilities of all kinds, large department stores, numerous government facilities and also a large number of private and government schools plus a pristine coastline with great fishing and beaches for other water activities. Cattle Sale yards Albany-Mt Barker and Katanning with grain facilities Albany Port.
Zoning:
Rural
Description:
Quality gentle undulating country in a prime productive region of Western Australia. Originally timbered with jarrah, yate, wandoo, redgum and paper bark.
Soil Types:
Good mixed soil types from loams, gravels loams with small areas of sands. Grazing area at 590 hectares with good mixed pasture of clovers ryes and kikuyu grass with a crop area of 580 hectares very suitable for canola and wheat plus barley crops. Good fertiliser over numerous years with applications of super & potash 3:2 with rates at 100 kgs plus over numerous years with lime applications on Kalgan Plains in 2009, crop country with MAP extra at 80 kgs plus applications of nitrogen to suit requirements and seasonal conditions..
Water:
The property is well watered from 19 dams, 3 good bores with one excellent and 15 troughs, domestic water supplies from numerous rainwater tanks and also stock water tanks with estimated capacity at 50,000l. Excellent water supplies and very adequate for the property of this size and Bendi Creek also has a water contract with an adjoining property with a good income attached.
Rainfall:
550 to 600 plus mm.
Fencing:
Twenty five paddocks with a few smaller holding paddocks. Plain wire electric fencing plus ringlock with laneway system leading to most paddocks on Kalgan Plains. All in good serviceable condition with some new over the last few years and a constant fencing maintenance programme is in place over the property.
Improvements:
Good adequate improvements on the property that include, 4 stand shearing shed; two gp sheds and excellent cattle yards at Kalgan Plains and shearing shed and sheep yards at Bendi Creek, three grain silo's and a few small other gp sheds. Very adequate improvements on the property.
Homestead:
Kalgan Plains has a lovely cottage constructed from hardi plank and iron, three bedrooms, two showers, one WC plus open kitchen and dinning areas, lounge room, laundry, veranda's and garage workshop with majestic Stirling Range Views. This home in good condition and well presented. Bendi Creek has a fibro and iron four bedroom home in neat tidy condition that is rented to the next door property owners at a rate of $200 per week. This is in good to fair condition
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