"RETFORD SPRINGS" - Clean Grazing Across 6 Titles, only 30 mins from Texas, Rural Cattle Enterprise located close to Bonshaw and Texas. Is a large grazing property which offers a great investment opportunity in the agricultural sector located in the Northern end of the Inverell Shire. The property has been developed for ease of management & low maintenance. The location is a major advantage, being close to livestock selling centres, feedlots & major towns. This property offers the ideal environment for any cattle grazing enterprise and would make an excellent starter block for someone stepping into the cattle industry.

To be Sold as a Whole or the below, or 3 options below
Lot 1 - 6 Titles, L10, 11, 13-16 DP750119 - 3360 acres*
Lot 2 - 4 Titles, L10,11,15 & 16 DP750119 - 2557 acres*
Lot 3 - 2 Titles, L13 & L14 DP750119 - 803 acres*

Lot 1 - "Retford Springs" as a whole

Location & Services
- Approximately 4* hours Southwest of Brisbane, 3.2* hrs to Toowoomba and 2 hrs* South west of Warwick, Inverell 100 km*
- Excellent all-weather gravel access to the front gate,
- Rural power
- Internet
- Mobile phone coverage
- Inverell major selling centre
- School bus

Property Description
RPD: 10, 11, 13-16 DP 750119
Local Authority: INVERELL SHIRE COUNCIL
Primary Land Use: FARM/RURAL
Secondary Land Use: FARM
Land Area: 1,360 ha - 3360 acres*

Country & Cultivation
- Cultivation, x cultivation, 202 ha* (500 ac*) previously cultivated
- Open grassed flats along all creeks and gullies, running up to large open undulating grazing and soft sweet trap rock and timbered areas
- Soft loam soils to granite and western edge a small portion of sweet trap
- Improved pastures, Premier Digit, Urichola & Rhodes grass
- Native pastures mainly consisting of kikuyu on creek flats, paspalum, blue grass, digit and winter legumes
- Areas of scattered timber and timber belts consisting of iron bark, yellow box, pine and others natives to the area, 202 ha* (500ac*)
- 1800 acres cleared and raked in the last three years

Homestead
- 'Retford Springs" Homestead - 4 bedroom homestead includes a large lounge and dining room
- 2 bathrooms, kitchen and family room
- Enclosed house yard
- Wrap around verandah leading out to a low maintenance garden. New roof & guttering and recently painted outside
- 10 000 gallon rainwater storage
- Ideally located on the property, the homestead is positioned with 360 degree views of the surrounding area

Infrastructure
- Machinery/Hayshed shed, enclosed 3.5 sides, high clearance
- Workshop and 2 x older wooden storage sheds, attached 3 bay carport
- Timber/portable panels cattle yards, crush and loading ramp are in good useable condition, water to yards
- Out buildings & old original tobacco drying shed

Roads
- Gravel road frontage with excellent all-weather gravel access, access roads around the property

Fencing
- Majority of the boundary and internal fencing is in excellent to fair condition and all stock proof. Timber and steel picket
- 24 paddocks, boundary ringlock, 18 new double gateway's
- 15 kms of new fencing on boundary and internal
- Holding paddocks at yards

Water
- A major highlight of the property is the excellent water security, 29 dams, 6 are spring fed and majority of which have been cleaned out and enlarged
- 4 seasonal creeks, Little Sandy Creek, Big Sandy Creek Reedy Creek and Herding Yard creek, have permanent and semi-permanent waterholes, several seasonal small gullies
- Three bores, 1 new unequipped bore, sunk in 2022, which is 80*m deep and tested at 2,500 gal/hr, 2nd bore is unequipped, old irrigation bore, power (however not in use), 3rd not known (old windmill)
- 44 megalitre water licence, Lic No: 90AL826721

Lot 2 - Brief Description
- 4 Titles, L10,11,15 & 16 DP750119 - 2557 acres*
- Homestead, yards, new bore
- Machinery Shed, Cattle yards
- New bore and 44 megalitre water licence

Lot 3 - Brief Description
- 2 Titles, L13 & L14 DP750119 - 803 acres*
- Bare with timber belts
- Old windmill bore

Rainfall - 690 ml* on average

"RETFORD SPRINGS" is a large scale grazing property which offers a great investment opportunity in the agricultural sector. This property offers the ideal environment for any livestock grazing enterprise for upsizing or downsizing, consisting of cattle, sheep and rangeland goats (currently carrying a large unknown number). With a possibility of carbon credit offsets as a form of off farm income stream. Historically it has carried 250 breeders, low-cost breeder country is rare to find. The property also lends itself to a weekender with many options such as a hunting block, 4WD and cross-country bike riding. Inspection highly recommended.

Inspection by private appointment only, please call Guy Sellick 0409 702 609, Angus Corke 0427 288 455 or James Croft 0429 318 646

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* denotes approximate measurements