MURRAY and Jenny Wilkins' well located Western Downs property Hayes Creek is handy to livestock markets, feedlots, processors, and grain handling facilities.
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Located 32km from Moonie and 146km from Dalby, the 2997 hectare (7405 acre) freehold property has 1006ha of cultivation.
There is also 578ha of improved pasture with the balance being natural grass, covered by a good PMAV. It is estimated there is the potential to farm a further 2000ha.
Hayes Creek will be auctioned by Nutrien Harcourts GDL on December 3.
The property has been cleared and mainly developed by ploughing and cropping areas of grain and forage crops, as well as being pulled, pelleted and blade ploughed.
Hayes Creek is described as being predominately brigalow, belah country with a mixture of wilga, ironbark, box and sandalwood in the 971ha of quick responding red country.
The watering facilities are described as excellent, with a share bore supplying 18 troughs supported by 243,000L in storage tanks, permanent waterholes along Hayes Creek, and seven dams. There is also a 413 megalitre water licence allocation, which can allow up to 1000ML to be captured a year, depending on the flow.
The 2997 hectare Western Downs property Hayes Creek will be auctioned by Nutrien Harcourts GDL on December 3.
Built improvements include a spacious four bedroom, two storey homestead with 2.4m wide verandahs on three sides, and a three bedroom cottage.
The 500 head-plus capacity cattle yards have a draft, crush, and calf branding facilities. There is also a three stand shearing shed and yards, large machinery shed and workshop, 1000 tonne storage in sheds and silos, and haysheds.
Contact Russell Jorgensen, 0428 880 411, Nutrien Harcourts GDL.
