684 Palana Road

Whitemark TAS 7255

This property can be purchased on an attractive WIWO basis. It offers the opportunities to own your own valley, to graze cattle and/or carry lucrative sheep and crop as well. Increasing the inputs would increase the stocking rates if so desired. The property has the water, soils, fencing and fertility to provide a great financial return and lifestyle for the new owners! It a credit to the inventive and cost efficient methods the vendors have perfected, to have developed this property over the last 16 years to such a high level. The yearly production demonstrates the excellent productivity generated from the property. There are opportunities to take it to another level of stocking rates and fodder production so a decent capital gain could be realized in for the new owners. The vendor's current agricultural contracting business (hay, silage, spraying and cultivation) can be continued by a new owner if so desired and would provide a significant additional source of income. Flinders Island house construction is an expensive exercise so the fact the house has recently had a quality renovation undertaken is a bonus. It has 2 bedrooms and an office which could potentially be a third. Quality Miele and Bosch appliances in theopen plan kitchen. There is a large machinery shed with concrete floored workshop and quality stock-yards. It is located on a sealed road some 7 kilometres from Whitemark with its airport, schools, hospital, bowls and golf clubs etc. and so very close to various beaches and fishing locations meaning a balanced lifestyle will ensure. The farm lays below a water shed, forested hill side with a permanent underground water. The soil holds summer moisture as well as having a permanent water bore for home and stock which is reticulated throughout the property. There are 13 dams on the property and a permanent spring fed dam demonstrates the clarity and quality of water and could provide a small scale irrigation opportunity. The soils vary from moisture, nutrient holding darker soils to some red soils and to lighter well drained sandier soils that also hold moisture. Fencing is really good, both boundary and internal. If conversion to a sheep operation, the fencing would generally just require one more strand. Fertility rates vary from excellent to average however the vendors dosing of stock water with minerals and generous fertilizing applications with the fodder cropping, again ensures efficient expenditure. With its great ocean views to Bass Strait and the outer islands, the property could be just the lifestyle and profitable rural business opportunity you are looking for...worth inspecting to understand the potential of a farming lifestyle on the paradise of Flinders Island.