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THIS property consists of three houses, large garages, large hay sheds, an old machinery shed, 13 paddocks and cattle yards.
The main homestead is a freshly renovated three-bedroom timber home with a country garden and orchard on the high bank of the Dumaresq River.
There is separate guest accommodation/studio with a kitchen, and a large six-bay garage/workshop.
It is currently rented at $350 per week.
The second home has three bedrooms and is currently rented for $260 per week.
The third home has two bedrooms and is currently rented at $245 per week.
There are three hay sheds: 46m x 20m x 6m,
18m x 15m x 6m, and 20m x 15m x 6m, with a transformer and three-phase power for 250hp motors.
They are suitable for cold rooms/packing sheds.
There is also an old machinery shed 20m x 15m.
All improvements are flood free.
The property is drought proofed with 1.5km Dumaresq River frontage – permanently flowing clean fresh water fed by the Glenlyon Dam, Mole River and Beardy River, 100-megalitre irrigation dam and other water storage with large, overland grassed catchment.
A normal season fills three to five times per year.
There’s a stock and domestic water licence and 4 x 4 pump licence for river irrigated cultivation.
The 28 hectares of cultivation is suitable for hay, horticulture, improved pastures or viticulture.
About 60% of cultivation is flood free. There have only been four floods in 80 years on river flats.
An electric pump takes water from river to storage tanks on a hill.
There is gravity feed to three houses, cattle yards and multiple stock watering points.
It is fenced into 12 paddocks, and has cattle yards, a timber loading ramp and good crush facilities.
It has all-weather access. Since 1978 the owner has grown lucerne (40–70 bales per acre, seven cuts per year, 350 bales per year average), watermelons (seedless 20–25 tonnes/acre, ordinary seeded melons 20–30 tonnes/acre) and pumpkins (10–15 tonnes/acre).
The property has carried 25 breeders, 25 calves, and 18 weaners through drought without supplementary feeding with 70 acres lucerne and pumpkins as cash crops.
Weaners and vealers are sold as fats.
The western boundary is the Dumaresq River with very old and extremely large red river gums, river oaks and callistemons along the banks.
The country is alluvial river flats, black soil and native pastures.
Irrigation equipment and basic farming machinery and lucerne cubing plant are available at valuation.
Rainbow is a very profitable enterprise, with multiple options.
Free water access is a feature of this property.