Gunnee Station	Delungra – Inverell NSW
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For sale in two lots

• Gunnee Station & Feedlot

• Kurrajong Heights

(Including the licenced 14,000 head Gunnee Feedlot)

A highly successful and integrated farming, grazing and feedlot operation

GUNNEE STATION is a flagship property, located in the rich northern New South Wales farming and cattle belt. The property has beautiful soft dark brown and black basalt soils, a secure water supply from creeks, bores and dams, over 4,000 acres has been farmed, and high yielding winter and summer crops are grown annually. The substantial Gunnee homestead (c1874) befits a property of this quality. The licenced fully operational feedlot is an important part of the efficient, vertically integrated enterprise.

individual properties at a glance

location & services

IN ONE OF THE STATES LEADING GRAIN AND CATTLE PRODUCING AREAS.

8km N of Delungra, 40km W of Inverell and 110km E of Moree.

Inverell, ‘The Sapphire City’, is the regional centre for Gunnee and provides a wide range of facilities, including saleyards and abattoirs. 1,000m airstrip on the property with hangar.

country

Ranges from rich alluvial creek frontages through easterly aspect mostly arable slopes country, to low hills. Mainly deep strong dark brown to black self mulching basalt soils with small areas of red basalt and lighter soils.

Well over 4,000 acres (1,700ha) has been farmed with high yielding crops of wheat, barley, sorghum and green chop forage. The balance is excellent grazing country, with local native summer and winter grasses and herbages – some under sown with lucerne, Arrowleaf clover and woolly pod vetch.

Original timber included apple, myall and kurrajongs. Generally strategic shade and shelter trees remain – mostly on the grazing country.

water & rainfall

Secure water supplies are sourced from Warialda and Boundary Creeks which run through Gunnee, generally providing double frontage. Two electrically equipped bores with licenced extraction of 250 MgL per year, bores with mills, a 250 MgL storage dam supported by industrial licence to extract 376 MgL per year, 2 large turkey nest dams plus paddock dams ensure stock and domestic supply. Approval pending for an additional 220 MgL dam.

Also a new stock water supply from the Warialda Creek – pumping to a 370,000 litre storage tank and reticulating to troughs in the centre of the property.

Rainfall averages 725mm – 29 inches per annum.

irrigation

Approx 100 acres (40 ha) of irrigation under centre pivot.

fencing & paddocks

Well fenced for farming and grazing with a total of 28 main paddocks.

improvements

GUNNEE HOMESTEAD – in part c.1874. Substantial renovated colonial style, 5 bedrooms, generous living and entertaining rooms, extensive grounds, pool.

Two Staff Cottages. Machinery Shedding, Workshop, Cattle yards.

the feedlot

company and custom feeding

Licensed capacity 14,000 head with current capacity 10,000 head.

52 feed yards, 2,300m bunk line. Handling yards – scales, crush, weighbridge.

Recently extended processing yards. Administration and amenities blocks

1,000t grain shed – new 8 bay bunker/feed shed – 3 x 7,000 tonne silage pads - drive over grain receival, new weighbridge – compost pad

feedmill

New roller mill 20” x 36”, 30 tonne receival hopper supported by 150 tonne/hour auger – 2 x 50 tonne soaking silos, 2 x 350 tonne storage silos. Ultra 80 tonne 26m x 3.5m weighbridge.

Area title: Unrestricted freehold

Plus additional 73.25ha of travelling stock reserve
(on Gunnee & Kurrajong Heights)

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