Commercial Scale Feedlot And Mixed Farming Enterprise For Sale

Rural Property For Sale Boasts Abundant Water, First-Class Livestock Facilities

This rural property for sale Queensland presents a unique opportunity to acquire a commercial-scale feedlot and quality mixed farming enterprise located in region renowned for supplying both domestic and export markets due to its favourable climate characteristics.

Positioned in the Queensland-New South Wales Border Rivers region, Myranee Feedlot and Maidenhead Station comprises approximately 3,529 hectares equally suited to cattle or sheep feedlotting, producing fodder or cash crops, and breeding/backgrounding cattle or sheep.

Boasting productive alluvial soils along extensive river flats on the Dumaresq River, transitioning to yellow and yellow mottled (trap) soils on the slopes and open and timbered undulating grazing land, the property includes around 106 hectares of centre pivot irrigated land, 340 hectares of dryland cropping land, and the balance being grazing land.

This rural property for sale Queensland comprises a commercial-scale feedlot and quality mixed farming enterprise

The predominant crop under irrigation is lucerne, with production averaging about 3.5 tonnes of hay per hectare per cut, with an average of 8-10 cuts per annum. Historically, forage sorghum has been grown for silage which averaged up to 51.9 tonnes per hectare per cut.

Additionally, dryland cropping has traditionally focused on fodder production, growing oats or barley.

For livestock, the property features a productive mix of native pastures with areas of premier digit and buffel grass and winter herbages, including clovers and medics.

This rural property for sale Queensland includes the newly constructed 280,000-square-metre Myranee Feedlot

Currently used for agistment purposes, the property offers an additional estimated carrying capacity of approximately 1,500 Adult Equivalents

Supporting its growth potential is the newly constructed 280,000-square-metre Myranee Feedlot, currently built to 5,600 Standard Cattle Units (SCU), with a licensed capacity of 10,000 SCU, and 9,000 Standard Sheep Units (SSU).

Comprising 28 cattle pens and 16 sheep pens, the feedlot currently has around 1,200 head of cattle on feed and 6,000 lambs – including a mix of vendor owned, as well as livestock being custom fed for family farmers through to corporate businesses. Custom feed contracts are sought on a month-by-month basis, with current operations seeing cattle fed for 50 to 150 days.

This rural property for sale Queensland boasts secure water from a 300-megalitre river water allocation, bores and dams

Access to secure water is a key feature of the property, underpinned by average annual rainfall of 723 millimetres, approximately 13 kilometres of frontage to the Dumaresq River and a 300-megalitre river water allocation.

Further enhancing its water security is 494 megalitres of water delivered by two bores, a further four bores (of which the licence can be shared), and numerous dams and creeks throughout the property.

Powered by a combination of electric, generator and solar, the bores include one which provides stock water to three 27,500-litre head tanks and is then reticulated to numerous troughs across most paddocks. Another bore provides stock water to the yards and paddocks surrounding the homestead, along with servicing the residence with soft and hard water, while a further provides water to the feedlot and surrounding paddock troughs.

This rural property for sale Queensland includes extensive operational infrastructure including two cattle yards

Fenced to all boundaries and internally subdivided into 30 main paddocks, the property also boasts extensive operational infrastructure, including a roller mill and grain storage (1,000 tonnes), commodity shed, machinery shed, cattle yards (two), sheep yards, shearing shed, weighbridge and office.

Constructed of steel, the cattle processing facility has an estimated capacity of more than 2,000 head and features seven-way drafting pound and curved race, undercover CIA immobiliser crush, three-way draft out of crush, Gallagher five-tonne weigh bars, and double loading ramp.

The sheep processing facility includes receival yards, double-sided undercover sheep race, three-way manual draft, three-way Gallagher Autodrafter and shearing shed. Air and water are pumped into the undercover area in both the cattle and sheep processing facilities.

This rural property for sale Queensland features multiple sheds, sheep yards, shearing shed, weighbridge and office

Complementing the on-farm infrastructure is a range of quality accommodation including two large homesteads, a manager’s house and dual self-contained workers’ quarters.

Myranee Feedlot and Maidenhead Station is positioned 12 linear kilometres south-east of Bonshaw, 36 linear kilometres south-east of Texas, 56 linear kilometres south-west of Tenterfield and 241 linear kilometres south-west of Brisbane.

The assets are strategically positioned in proximity to an abundance of processing plants, as well as local and regional weekly cattle markets.

This rural property for sale Queensland offers accommodation including two homesteads, a manager’s house and workers’ quarters

The property is offered for sale by expression of interest closing at 12pm (AEST) on Thursday, August 22.

Click on the following link for more information on this rural property for sale Queensland at 4674 Riverton Road, Maidenhead, QLD.