4307 Clay Wells Road

Furner SA 5280

GRAZING AND IRRIGATION - HIGH RAINFALL - EXCELLENT QUALITY UNDERGROUND WATER
OFFERED AS A WHOLE, WIWO OR THREE CONTINGENT LOTS
Banjerung is located in the reliable high rainfall area of Millicent/Furner in the highly productive and versatile Lower South East.
The Varcoe family have owned Banjerung for over 70 years. It is now being offered for sale due to the pending retirement of the vendor.
Banjerung is located adjacent the sealed Penola to Robe road.
Magnificent Red Gums are spread throughout the property creating a park like setting with the deer herd.
The area is known as good quality cropping and grazing country. It is strong breeding and finishing country for cattle and lambs.
Banjerung has irrigation that supplements feed as required.
The property is ideally located for the marketing of prime livestock with large scale markets held at Millicent, Mount Gambier and Naracoorte. Livestock are also sold live weight and on hooks to abattoirs in South Australia and Victoria. Cattle suitable for feedlots are sent into South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales.
Banjerung is being run as a commercial deer farm. It is fenced for fallow and red deer.
Banjerung is located adjacent the sealed Penola to Robe road. It is 40 kms from Penola, 40 kms from Millicent, 40 kms from Beachport, 50 kms from Robe and 90 kms from the major centre of Mount Gambier.
There are hospitals at Millicent and Mount Gambier. The school bus to the Kangaroo Inn Area School is one km from the front gate and services grade one to year 12.
Penola, Millicent and Mount Gambier have services for the Agricultural industry and Mount Gambier with flights to Adelaide and Melbourne is the major commercial and livestock centre of the Lower South East.
Banjerung has a four bedroom stone home with kitchen, lounge, bathroom and laundry. There is an electric stove and double wall oven. Dishwasher. Reverse cycle air conditioner in the kitchen. Wood heater in the lounge.
Excellent rainwater storage for the house. There are four twenty thousand litre tanks. Two are cement, one poly and one galv.
There is a bore at the house used on the garden with pop up sprinklers.
Machinery shed 31.5m x 12m x 4.8m
Storage shed 9m x 6m
Stone garage
Timber cattle and deer yards
Deer shed with power connected, hydraulic crush and handling yards.
Shearing shed 15m x 9m, two stand electric, steel sheep yards.
Banjerung is currently run as a commercial deer farm.
The deer herd will be offered with the property on a WIWO basis if a purchaser is interested.
Sheep and cattle are also run on the property.
WATER AND IRRIGATION
Banjerung has four bores equipped with windmills and tanks with water gravitating to galvanised and cement troughs. All paddocks are watered.
There is a permanent dam.
IRRIGATION
Three irrigation bores with excellent quality water.
There are currently forty acres of Lucerne watered by a gun irrigator.
The Lucerne is L56. Approximately fifty percent planted three years ago and the balance seven years ago.
The Lucerne is used as cut and carry green chop for the deer herd.
FENCING SOILS PASTURES FERTILISER
850 acres are fenced with deer fencing. Mainly deer fence boundary.
The balance is sheep fence being wooden posts, five plain wires with two top wires electrified.
The fence between sections 109 and 232 is not on the correct boundary. If sold in lots the fence line will be surveyed and fenced at the vendors cost with sheep and cattle fence up to a value of $5000 per km. If sold as a whole no fencing will be done by the vendor.
Fertiliser has been applied to some areas of the property. Some has had half a bag to the acre of plain super and some paddocks have has copper and zinc applied.
The pastures are mainly sub clovers, phalaris, ryegrass and annuals.
Crop mainly for hay and silage.
Soils are mainly black soils on the western side, Red gum soils in the central area (Red loam) with sand over clay on the eastern side of the property.
The trees are magnificent Red Gums, White Gums and Stringy Bark.
Expressions of Interest close on the 15th December 2015.
Contact Peter Taylor for further information 0418 794 293