'Old Euston' 2308 Morella-Silsoe Rd Longreach QLD 4730

Location Details:
Centrally located 120km SW of Winton and 100km NW of the town of Longreach with access from the Landsborough Hwy via the Morella/Silso Rd. Approx 290km from Blackall

Size/Area:
Total Freehold Area: 22,908.44ha (56,583.44 acres)
Lot 1 MO25 & L1 MO28 & L3 MO44
Longreach Regional Council.- Rates: Approx. $17,480.20 pa
Predominate Use: Cattle Breeding, Backgrounding, Fattening
Tenure: Freehold
Rates: $17,480 PA
Rainfall: 425mm

Services:
Spelling, saleyard and weigh facilities are located in Winton, Longreach and Blackall with weekly sales held at the Blackall saleyards.
Longreach has daily flights to Brisbane, RFDS base hospital, private and state schools to year 10 and 12. Aged care facilities, early childhood centres, multiple government services, shopping and medical services.

Improvements:
The station complex comprises of a good set of airconditioned quarters powered by a solar battery system, equipped with cel-fi mobile phone booster and Wifi through starlink. A steel frame 12mx6m machinery shed and also a large 12mx24m fenced hay shed.

Country Type:
The country is considered strong and safe with an excellent mix of fattening, backgrounding and breeding characteristics.
Old Euston is a desirable mix of Mitchell grass open downs interspersed with shaded downs, sweet pebbly ridges, and Gidgea country.
Creek systems are heavily grassed with Buffel and shaded with Coolibah and Bloodwood.
A well established body of self-mulching Perennials including Buffel and Mitchell grasses is existing. The country will also grow the typical seasonal grasses, herbages, and succulents.
Approx. 4431 of gidgea timbered area of which approx.. 1500 acres has recently been thinned and approx. 5322 acres of fenced range or escarpment country.

Water:
Old Eustons is watered very reliably through a series of solar pumps, pipes and tanks, reducing the distance to water of approx. 1.5km across the property.
Watered with 2 x sub artesian bores (Ventura Bore built 2014 & Broken Dam Bore built 2022) connected and reticulated to tanks and concrete trough system. Fifteen dams of which most are fenced and equipped with solar pumps. Water then reticulates through 63mm blue line poly to troughs. Remote water monitoring at several important water points through an Observant telemetry system is installed.

Fencing:
Good set of watered steel cattle yards, which will comfortably work 800 head. Roof over vet crush and 5 way draft. The property is fenced into 14 paddocks and 2 holding paddocks with fencing in good condition. Boundaries are 4 barb with 3 barb internal fencing. A laneway system connects the outer paddocks with the cattle yards. All fencing material on-site for the construction of an exclusion fence.

Carrying Capacity:
2200 AE

Offered bare of plant and equipment.

Old Euston is naturally strong and healthy cattle country which would suit backgrounding, breeding or fattening. Currently experiencing an excellent season, the property will run a power of cattle this year. Old Euston offers location and lifestyle close to the amenities of the CW town of Longreach. The strength of the country is reflected in the cattle it produces, high calving percentages, excellent bone, structure and first class weight gains. Old Euston is ideally suited as a stand alone operation or is set up well for ease of management for an additional area to are larger operation.

Information Memorandums available via email upon request.
Inspections by appointment with exclusive agents only.

Contact:
Wally Cooper - RPL - 0427 781 054
Phillip Avery - TopX - 0428 779 780