6405 and 6847 Woolsthorpe-Heywood Rd Heywood Victoria 3304.
Area (approximately)
• 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.
