THE well-grassed Bollon properties Bengarcia and Carbene have been listed for private sale following an Elders auction in St George today.
David and Sharon Moore’s 14,110-hectares (34,865 acres) property Bengarcia has listed for $2.2 million after being passed in on a bid from the floor of $1.6m.
Richard and Susie Moore’s 15,106ha (37,326 acres) property Carbene has been listed for $3.7m after being passed in on a vendor bid $3.5m.
Marketing agent Brendan Devine, Elders, said both properties were carrying an excellent body of feed and were being offered with immediate access.
Bengarcia is located 84km north west of Bollon. It is described as slightly undulating red loam soils, with prominent pastures of buffel, mulga Mitchell, and winter herbages in season. The eastern side of Patterson’s watercourse is predominately buffel country. The watercourse country is a mixture of salines with buffel running into mulga reserves to the west. The PMAV vegetation map is about 90 to 95 per cent white.
Bengarcia is fenced into 16 main paddocks with holding paddocks and there is a 21km exclusion fence along the northern boundary. The property has run 700 breeding cows but is currently running a mixture of breeders and backgrounders.
The property is well watered with a bore piped to 15 tanks and 25 troughs. There are also 15 dams. The rainfall is regarded as 451mm a year.
Improvements include a four bedroom home, vehicle shed/workshop, governess residence, steel cattle yards to work a minimum of 400 head, a five-stand woolshed, sheep yards, and quarters.
The adjoining Carbene is located 56km north west of Bollon and is described as being equally suited to breeding or back-grounding.
The country is described as predomintely flat, red loam soils, with an excellent cover of mostly buffel pasture, some mulga Mitchell, and winter herbages in season. About 85 per cent of Carbene is marked white on the PMAV vegetation map.
Carbene has a bore supplying 28 tanks and 40 troughs as well as 11 dams. The average annual rainfall is regarded as 460mm a year.
Improvements include a four bedroom home, machinery shed, vehicle shed/workshop, and steel cattle yards to work 400 head.
Carbene has the capacity to run 1000 breeding cows but has been running a mixture of breeders and backgrounders.
Contact Brendan Devine, 0428 255 568, Elders.