95 Wageners Road

Greenridge NSW 2471

LOCATION:
95 Wageners Road, Greenridge, NSW. 4km to the Greenridge Hall, 11km to Casino, 34km to Lismore, 49km to Evans Head and 132km to Gold Coast airport.

Casino and Lismore are key regional and rural hubs of approx. 10,000 people & 40,000 people, each providing primary and secondary school services, health and sporting facilities, broad range of retail and business services, hospitality and strong commercial and industrial sectors.

Casino offers livestock marketing facilities, export abattoir and milk factories are located in both towns.

SERVICES:
Postal services to the front gate (three days per week)
The school bus picks up near Greenridge Hall.
NBN available
Mains Power connected
Solar power (hotwater) at dairy

IMPROVEMENTS:

North east facing four bedroom home with corrugated iron roof with large open verandahs on two sides of the house. Open plan living, dining and kitchen area complete with reverse cycle a/c. Kitchen is equipped with plenty of cupboard space, gas cooktop and electric stove. There is a family bathroom with shower and toilet.

Domestic water: 2 x poly water tanks holding up to 44,000 litres (approx. only). and house is also serviced by a well.

Farming improvements include a 6 aside swing over dairy, steel construction and corrugated galvanized iron roofing. The functional dairy traditionally milks around 70-100 dairy cows and features milk vat with 3,000 litre capacity and effluent pump and trenches close by. The cow yard comfortably holds up to 120 head and is equipped with cattle race and crush. There is an automatic feed system in the dairy. There is an all-weather circular tanker track which is also used for other transport including stock outwards and fodder inwards.

The farm supplies fresh milk to Norco Dairy Australia.

Other farming improvements include a large multipurpose hay shed and a converted piggery for equipment and machinery storage.

WATER:
Water security is a feature with three sources of irrigation and stock water on the property. Water is available across the whole farm.

Shannonbrook Creek : 33 megalitre irrigation licence
Dam: Large 14meg +
Natural lagoon
Well: Supplies water to house

There is one diesel powered 15hp pump, 1 x 25hp diesel power pump, 1 x submersible solar pump, underground mains with 19 hydrants and K-line irrigation system. Additionally there is a T20 travelling irrigator Approximately 11 livestock troughs with underground water reticulation from header tanks. (supplied directly from large dam via submersible solar pump)

PADDOCKS:

Fenced for dairy cattle operations there are approximately 9 paddocks with laneways from the dairy. Wagener's Road (No through Road) also provides easy access and is ideal for cattle management purposes.

There are a number of small holding paddocks for calving or calf rearing purposes around the dairy and sheds.

FENCING:
As stated the fencing is suited to dairy operations and is well maintained with the majority of fencing consisting of electric fencing with conventional barbed wire boundary fencing in reasonable condition. The property could be easily fenced for other livestock operations.

RAINFALL:
Annual average rainfall of around 45 - 47'' / 1200mm.

SOIL TYPE:
Well-balanced, mainly flat, chocolate silt loam with some sandy loam towards the southern boundary.

PASTURES:
Mixture of Rhodes grass and Setaria topped up with annual ryegrass direct drilled over 70% of the farm. Legumes including Haifa clover and Fescue have been included into the pastures.

FERTILISER

The property has had has a very consistent and reliable fertilising program. This has included the application of Superphosphate at a rate of 250kg/ha along with Urea at an application rate of 100kg/ha.

STOCK:

Traditionally the owners have milked 70-100 dairy cows. Milk production figures available upon request but last year, based on 90 cows, 2500 litres of milk was produced and picked up every second day. Totalling approximately 450,000litres of milk per annum.

In relation to the dairy herd there are currently 90 cows, 25 replacement heifers, 20 unjoined heifers and a number of calves.

If conducting a beef grazing operation the estimated carrying capacity is between 90 - 95 breeders plus replacements.

As stated cropping has also been conducted on Shannonvale with approximately 70-80% of the property cultivated.

COMMENTS:

Shannonvale opens so many opportunities for livestock and cropping operations and is a wonderful opportunity to secure a unique, versatile and productive rural holding in a sought after farming location within easy commuting distances of Casino and Lismore. The Greenridge / Tatham district is noted for its agricultural diversity and versatility and this property is no exception. Whilst being offered as an operating dairy platform, it would be easily adapted for beef breeding or any other livestock operation or a cropping operation could easily be implemented.