6405 Woolsthorpe-Heywood Road

Heywood VIC 3304

Wairere 268 hectares
Ettrick 388 hectares
Ettrick Moor 495 hectares

Total Area 1151 hectares

Wairere
4 Stand Woolshed
Covered sheep handling facilities
Central laneway
32 paddocks
Reticulated water to each paddock
Steel and timber circular sheep yards


Ettrick.
4 Stand Woolshed
Undercover, bugle, sheep handling facilities
Central laneway
37 paddocks with central laneway
Reticulated water supply to each paddock, sourced from the spring fed Darlot stream
3 bedroom home with a
2 bedroom sleepout
Double garage

Ettrick Moor
Steel circular design cattle yards
All weather B double truck access
10 paddocks
Reticulated water supply to cultivable paddocks
Abundant natural water in "stone" country
Boundary is newly erected "kangaroo" fencing
Perfect country for cattle wintering

Located approximately 10 km east of Heywood, in Victoria's South West the Wairere amalgamation of properties offers buyers the opportunity to purchase a large scale intensive livestock operation in a high rainfall, reliable region of Victoria.

Wairere comprises of 3 interlinking properties ,each with their own unique features and characteristics which combined together form a well balanced large scale operation.

Currently the properties support the World renowned Wairere Romney Stud, a commercial prime lamb operation as well as a cattle trading enterprise.

Fencing, water and stock handling infrastructure are a feature of the property with well over $1.5 million spent on infrastructure in the last 5 years. Sub divisional fencing is 8 wires with droppers and 2 wires being electric. Boundary fences are ring lock netting complemented with 1 plain and 1 electric wire.
95% of the paddocks have laneway access for an ease of stock movement.

In intensive pasture renewal program has been undertaken over the past 5 years. All paddocks go through a summer cropping program before being sown down to perennial rye and clover mixes. Approximately 90% of the cultivable country is now renovated.
The property has a range of soil types ranging from Red Clay loams, Clay loams and Stoney barrier country. Olsen P levels are solid and sit at an average of 26 across the properties. PH levels sit at 5.5 as a average across the property

The balance of soil types is a unique feature of the property. Intensive land use enterprises are supported on the more friable soil type while the drier barrier country allows cattle trading opportunities to be realized in the wetter months and productive pastures to be spelled in the drier months.