Unique Rural Property For Sale South Australia

Generational Opportunity To Secure Productive Rural Property For Sale SA

Offered for sale for the first time in 40 years, Lake Torrens Station represents a generational opportunity to acquire a productive and manageable pastoral enterprise strategically located just 57km from Hawker and 162km from Port Augusta in the Flinders Ranges area of South Australia.

With a rich legacy dating back to its establishment in 1854, today this rural property for sale South Australia is a thriving cattle operation owned by the Rowe family.

This rural property for sale South Australia presents a generational opportunity to acquire a productive and manageable pastoral enterprise

Since assuming custodianship in 1984, the family’s Angus-based cattle herd has earned a reputation for its exceptional quality, freshness, frame, and temperament. The property carries a conservative 342 Angus and Angus x Hereford cows (included in the sale) in prime condition with calves at foot. A maximum stocking rate of approximately 1,360 cattle or 6,800 sheep is underpinned by first-class land and infrastructure.

Spanning 433km2 (43,300 hectares), Lake Torrens Station predominantly comprises complex dunes with mulga, black oak and occasional northern native pine; as well as swales of scattered mulga over annual grasses with low blue bush and bladder saltbush on heavier soils.

This rural property for sale South Australia boasts outstanding coverage of blue bush, salt bush, native grasses and herbage

There’s also stony outwash plains of sandy soils, prickly wattle and harlequin fuchsia bush over wards weed and copperbars; Lake Torrens salina and shoreline featuring salt-crusted lake beds, flats and lake fringes of bladder saltbush, starbush or samphire; and lunettes of sandhill wattle and narrow-leaf hopbush over grasses.

Split into 12 main paddocks, Lake Torrens Station includes fencing in good stock-proof condition comprising a mixture of timber and steel posts and plain and barbed wires. Boundary fencing was replaced recently.

This rural property for sale South Australia is split into 12 main paddocks using quality timber-and-wire fencing in good stock-proof condition

For livestock, there are four sets of steel cattle yards in good condition plus a five-stand shearing shed with yards. Constructed from steel, the home cattle yards include six main yards, two holding yards, one round yard, three-way draft, vet crush, and steel loading ramp and weigh scales.

A second set of cattle yards features four main yards, forcing yard, two-way draft, head bale, steel loading ramp, weigh scales, and a trap yard to the adjoining waterpoint. A third set of cattle yards offers four main yards, forcing yard, two-way draft, head bale, steel loading ramp and weigh scales; while a fourth set includes six main yards, two holding yards, round yard, two-way draft, head bale and steel loading ramp.

This rural property for sale South Australia features four sets of steel cattle yards in good condition plus a five-stand shearing shed with yard

Another key feature of Lake Torrens Station is water security. With long-term average annual rainfall of 271mm, the property boasts nine bores, all equipped with either solar- or mains-powered submersible pumps.

The house bore supplies three header tanks and troughs at the shearing shed, cattle yards and front paddock while the other bores feed into concrete or polythene header tanks and onto concrete troughs spread across the property.

This rural property for sale South Australia offers secure water with nine equipped bores supplying header tanks and troughs 

What’s more, Lake Torrens Station features abundant shedding, including a 147sqm machinery shed with concrete floor, 72sqm workshop with concrete floor, 270sqm five-stand shearing shed, and 36sqm garage with concrete floor.

Additionally, there is a 150sqm staff quarters offering five bedrooms, kitchen/dining room and externally, bathrooms and cookhouse; as well as a 57sqm timber-framed cottage with metal cladding and concrete floor.

This rural property for sale South Australia features abundant shedding including a machinery shed, workshop and five-stand shearing shed

Complementing the extensive on-farm infrastructure is a single-story main residence set in established, fenced garden surrounds.

Featuring reverse-cycle air-conditioning and solid-fuel combustion heater, the home comprises four bedrooms, one bathroom, two living rooms, kitchen and laundry, and outside veranda.

This rural property for sale South Australia comes with a main residence with four bedrooms, bathroom, two living rooms, kitchen and laundry

Lake Torrens Station is offered for sale on a walk-in-walk-out basis comprising land, cattle, and a long list of plant and equipment including utes and cars, loader, diesel and water tanks, cool room, cattle scanning and weighing units, motorcycle, generators, cattle scale and crush, and lots more.

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