"Northcotte" is a diverse and picturesque property offering irrigated cropping on the fertile Peel river flats, exceptional open grazing areas and quality infrastructure. "Northcotte" is situated in a renowned and reliable pocket of the North West Slopes & Plains adjacent to Chaffey Dam & just 40 mins for the major inland city of Tamworth.
Area:
1605Ha-3968Acres
Homestead:
4 bedroom brick veneer home, bullnose veranda, aluminium windows, large timber kitchen/dining area, walk-in pantry, large living room, slow combustion heater, gas heating, r/c air conditioning, timber floors, separate toilet, bathroom/shower, laundry, office, enclosed veranda.
16,000 gallon rainwater storage from 4 tanks, river water supplying the garden & lawns.
Double garage/brick veneer with separate shower & toilet.
Cottages:
1 x 2 bedroom cottage.
1 x 2 bedroom cottage with stables & horse yard.
Water:
3.5kms frontage to the Peel River, 2.5km frontage to the reliable Copes Creek, 3 solar powered bores with 40,000 gallon stock water storage via gravity fed system. 299 Meg irrigation license, 18 dams, 40 concrete troughs.
Considerable recent invested into the property with the addition of quality water infrastructure ensuring water is distributed over the entirety of the property.
811mm average rainfall
Irrigation:
2 x pivot irrigation units with 2 separate pumps with a 16 litres a second pumping capacity.
2 x high flow travelling irrigation pump units with 30 litres per second capacity.
Approx 355 acres of river flats suitable for Lucerne production
Shedding:
30 x 11m 5 bay machinery shed/cement floor, with workshop area, chemical storage, single phase power, 3 x hay sheds.
Grain Storage:
3 x 60 tonne HE Silos, 2 x 40 tonne Kotzue silos. 12m x 11m grain shed.
Cattle Yards:
Steel gal 5 rail, 6m concrete floor loading ramp, curved race concrete floor, weigh box with NLIS panel reader, covered Thompson Longhorn vet crush with 3 way draft off crush, 4 way drafting pound, calf race and arrow calf cradle, lockable chemical storage shed, sprinkler system, 3 large holding paddocks attached to yards, 400 head capacity.
Steel round rail yards, loading ramp, crush, race, 200 head capacity.
Steel & timber yards, loading ramp, head bail/crush, 50 head capacity.
Paddocks/Fencing:
38 paddocks, fencing in good to very good condition throughout and consists of netting & barb on the boundaries and internal fencing is hinge joint and barb or plain wire & barb.
Livestock Production:
The vendor has a history of carrying approx. 650 breeding cows with progeny sold as vealers or grown out to feeder/domestic weights, in addition to the farming enterprise.