Description

286 Acres/115.7Ha - 100 Acres/40Ha Irrigation
- A most desirable location - Warrnambool 18km.
- Unique opportunity - family owned dairy farm for 110+ years.
- Intensive high production farm milking 250 cows - 8000L average.
- 100Ac/40Ha Bosch Irrigation system - 240 Meg License.
- Fully equipped 21 S/O H/B Dairy with 9000L vat - vet race skillion
- As new calf shed - automated milk & water, 80' x 30' machinery shed with skillion.
- Historic - C1910 - 3brm recently renovated Bluestone home.
- Outstanding balance of soil types - recently renovated pastures.

FAIRVIEW

AREA: 286 Acres 2 titles (182 Acres & 104 Acres)

LOCATION: 102 Gleesons Road, Purnim. Frontage to Bryan OLynn Road and 1km to Hopkins Highway. 16 km Warrnambool.

SERVICES: School bus to Grassmere primary and all Warrnambool schools at Hopkins Highway. Mail papers daily at Hopkins Highway.

TENURE: Area of unmade/unleased road no formal arrangement.

IMPROVEMENTS:
The Home:
Recently renovated 3 brm bluestone home (circa 1900) with period features, central hallway with feature leadlight window, pressed tin dados, polished floorboards, tongue and groove pine dados. Renovations include new GI roof, painted internally and externally, new floorboards and new garage complex.

Master bedroom with W.I.R.,all double bedrooms. New bathroom. Easterly facing lounge with gas heater and/or OFP which is a double fireplace onto Master Bedroom.

Open plan kitchen/living area with timber kitchen featuring Chef electric wall oven and new gas cook tops, Vulcan dishwasher and corner pantry with breakfast bar. 2 x R/C air conditioners located in the master bedroom and kitchen living area. .

Large built-in back verandah. Garage complex re-built in 2008 with facilities for 2 cars via 2 remote doors. Also attached is bedroom and shower/toilet and separate laundry.

Neat easy care garden with English flavor including roses, English trees and fruit trees. New childproof fenced front yard.


The Farm:
21 S/O H/B dairy with 9000L Westfalia vat. Automatic feed system with Hawke mixer (2 ton capacity) and rollermill with one grain silo - 28 ton, Westfalia milking plant with 220 cow yard. Undercover crush and vet race and undercover calving/calf rearing pens. 2 effluent ponds & 2 feed pads. Concrete feedpad strategically positioned at dairy exit. Approximately 6m x 15m calf shed 5 year old plumbed for stockwater & milk, 80 x 30 with 20 x 40 extended GI Machinery shed built in 2002. (Power available not connected), Sundry shedding with power. Feed bunker with concrete floor & pre-fabricated concrete sides. Approximately 60 ton capacity for feed mixing purposes. Back-up auxiliary single phase power plant, pit silage bunker for 200 300 ton. New calving pad close to dairy with woodchip and rice hull base with capacity for 40 head.

WATER: Stock water ex Drysdale Creek via Lister diesel motor with Helicar Rotor pump with 2 line to 14000G capacity (2 x 7000G concrete tanks) pressurized via 1.5 mainlines to mostly 1000G troughs. (yielding 3000G/Hr). Otway water available and connected. Freshwater at dairy via 20,000G aluminium pioneer and 5000G poly freshwater tank. 10000G & 7000G tank at house for fresh water.

IRRIGATION: 240Meg water license ex Drysdale Creek to be transferred with property.

100 Acres via 2 Bosch system.

1. 50 Sprinklers to 120HP Deustch motor (4500Hrs) coupled to RHE Southern Cross centrifugal pump.
2. 23 sprinklers to a recently rebuilt Perkins 6354 coupled to direct drive hydro Thomson pump (40,000G/hr capabilities).

2 unequipped irrigation bores 250 deep yielding 8000 + 22000 gallons per hour not licensed but not in groundwater management district. Pivot irrigation potential.

PADDOCKS: 29 paddocks all interlinked with very well maintained laneways and tracks.

FENCING: Majority of 3 strand pine post electric fencing. Outstanding mainly native and cypress established shelter belts.

PASTURES: Recently renovated pastures of approximately 60% perennial, 40% annuals and fodder crops. Annual ryegrasses for fodder
conservation and winter feed. Generally cuts 300 500 large rolls of silage.

FERTILISER: Very strong fertilizer history with Olsen Ps generally 30+. Capital application of around 30 ton of 1 in 1 in the Autumn, followed by strategic applications of Urea and Pasture Booster in Spring. Fodder crops all have DAP applied at sowing.

RAINFALL: 30/750ml

SOIL TYPE: Rich black volcanic heavy loam creek flats and rolling country with grey loam flatter plateau country with some buckshot influence on Bryan OLynn Road country.

CONTOUR: Creek flats rising onto flatter plateau country.

STOCK: Property has milked up to 260 high producing large
Friesian cows. Supplies Bega. All cattle over 12 months of age run off property. Currently milking 180 cows with little feeding, due to economic reasons.

PRODUCTION: 8000L average per cow per annum. (320kg of fat, 260 kg of
protein). (Herd available with farm) Current feeding regime of 4kg/head/day or 1.2T/year plus supplementary paddock feed.