'Gilkes' is the ideal add-on or additional mixed farming enterprise.
Very well suited to running sheep, cattle and producing cereal and fodder crops. The farm is well fenced with upgrading currently taking place, and watered from the main dam.
Productive deep red loams running to grey self mulching soils, approximately 70% to 80% arable with ongoing development. This is a great opportunity to secure a low maintenance, highly productive mixed farm.
Description:
Level open plains, soft red loams approximately 60% running to grey self mulching soils. Timbered with Myall, Belah, Bimble Box, Wilga and Kurrajong.
Approximately 70% to 80% arable. Natural grazing and cereal cropping.
Water:
Watered by a main dam, with a windmill that pumps to smaller dams via several kilometres of trenched polly pipe.
Rainfall: 450 mm approx.
Fencing:
5 paddocks.
Fencing is in good stock-proof condition with a percentage having been renewed, along with replacement and upgrading taking place.
Cropping:
Cereal crops are grown in rotation with Lupins and long fallow with both Lucerne and Clover having been sown in the past.
Production:
In conjunction with 540ha of cash cropping (wheat 2024) and 160ha of fodder crops (oats), the owners turn off around 1,500 to 1,800 lambs per annum when the fodder crops are grazed. 2024 has seen 900 ewes lambing on the grazing country and fodder crops since mid May.
Improvements:
A set of steel sheep yards with a concrete draft and working race are centrally located to the farm. In good working condition and ideal for lamb marking.
