Monto Irrigation and Grazing
634* hectares - 1,566* acres, 35* kilometres south of Monto, 40* kilometres north of Eidsvold and 1* kilometre off the Burnett Highway. The city of Bundaberg is 160* kilometres.
Full frontage to Splinter Creek with alluvial blue gum creek flats and hollows running back to sweet forest timbered with ironbark, bloodwood and currajong which a large percentage has been contoured, stickraked and sown to improved pastures of bissett, buffel, panic, seca and wynn cassia.
Approximately 400 acres along the back boundary is timbered steeper country with hollows filled with green panic, also buffel and seca stylo plus native grass, good stands of fencing timber (narrow leaf ironbark, rosewood) available for farm forestry.
Irrigation allocation of 120 megalitres from irrigation bore equipped with 75hp* three phase electric motor and turbine pump, the electricity runs underground from the bore to the centre pivot pad. Unequipped bore adjacent to the irrigation bore, unequipped bore at the pivot estimated at 18,000GPH*. The Yulin centre pivot is 5 span and covers 50* acres, a second irrigator available is a Trailco soft hose water winch with 2x200* metre hoses. The Splinter Creek irrigation area is an unregulated area with no meters or water charges.
Stock and domestic water from equipped bore with electric submersible pump supplies a tank at the yards for troughs and the house, also supplies an elevated tank that can be filled from the dam at the back, a windmill on a bore supplies the same tank.
3 irrigation paddocks fenced for grazing, creek paddock and 7 contoured paddocks. The timbered area at the back is one paddock.
Lowset 4 bedroom home on timber stumps with cladded exterior, air cooler and wood heater. 24* x 12* metre machinery shed with electricity, hay shed, former dairy concrete block.
Grain storage with 2 x 45* ton silos and 3 silage pits.
Carrying capacity of 130 cows plus 5o heifers in the back timbered paddock.