"Barragunda", Hughenden QLD 4821

Location: The Barragunda homestead is located approximately 67km south of Hughenden (approx. 50% unsealed road) and is 20km east of the Muttaburra / Hughenden Road. Muttaburra is approximately 190km to the south with the majority being unsealed road. Barragunda is very well positioned as a breeding, backgrounding or fattening property and has good access to the live export cattle markets through Townsville or Cloncurry, as well as the meatworks, feedlots and the store cattle markets to the south. Barragunda is in a tick free area.

Facilities/Services: Barragunda has rural power, Wi-Fi mobile phone at the homestead, as well as internet and a landline telephone service. Hughenden has the usual rural shopping, schools, government agency, hospital, cattle yards with weighing facilities and rail trucking facilities.

Area & Tenure:
Lot 8 Crown Plan UD65 GHPL 9,269.712 Ha. or approx. 22,905.92 acres
Rates: $3,619.45 Half Yearly Rent: $4,293.98 Quarterly
Local Authority: Shire of Flinders

Country:Barragunda has a great mix of very good quality chocolate and red pebbly fertile soil and is best described as undulating Mitchell, Flinders and Buffel grass downs with areas of Gidgee/Boree country that has been selectively cleared. There are numerous creek systems and shelterbelts that have been left untouched. Approximately 840 Ha (2,075 acres) has been pulled and sown with Buffel grass with approximately 335 Ha (827 acres) blade ploughed.
The open downs country is heavy carrying, tight soil with an increase of Buffel grass establishment throughout. The channels and creek systems have a very strong presence of Buffel grass, as well as the sweet summer herbages and native grasses. The soft, stoney, timbered country has a mix of Gidgee, Pink Gidgee, Boree, Leopardwood, False Sandalwood and Bauhinia trees and a good mix of Buffel grass, native grasses and summer herbages. The semi-open timbered country is sweet, fattening country with a good mix of mostly Mitchell and Flinders grass and summer herbages such as pigweed, button grass and salt bush.
Barragunda is considered to be free of Prickly Acacia with the germination of the odd small seedling that is sprayed when spotted. There is a minor infestation along the creek systems of Parkinsonia that the vendors are controlling and a small outbreak of Coral Cactus that is completely under control and continually monitored by the vendors.

Waters:Barragunda is well watered with one sub-artesian bore, 6 dams, 28km poly pipe, 13 tanks and 25 troughs. The bore which is located at the house, is 385 metres deep, connected to rural power and is pumping at 1,500 gallons per hour with a Grundfos SQ5-70N submersible pump. This pump was put down about 8 years ago and is pumping from 51 metres. The standing water level is at 20 metres and the water temperature is 40.5 degrees Celsius. The bore hole was blown/cleaned out and relined with heavy duty PVC pipe approximately 10 years ago. The bore water quality was tested in 2012 by Simmonds & Bristow and the report stated 'a good source of raw drinking water suitable for human consumption and livestock'. The clean water used throughout the house and on the garden comes via the 130,000L Pioneer steel storage tank.
The shared dam with Strathroy is registered and is equipped with solar panels and pump. Four of the other five dams are also equipped with solar panels and pumps new panels and a pump are ordered for Yantee and Alex dam. Following a good wet season there will be numerous short term water holes along the Yantee and Gum creek systems. These two creeks combine on Barragunda to form Merse Creek which flows into the Landsborough Creek channel system.

Fencing:Most of the boundary is best described as a mixture of fair to new fencing with a couple of old sections that will need to be replaced in the near future. The exclusion fence is 20km in length with a section of it running along the Cameron Downs boundary. The balance of the boundary fence is a mixture of 5 plain & 1 barb or 3 barb. The internal fencing is a mixture of netting with a barb or three barbs with steel pickets. It is mostly in a well-maintained stock proof condition.
There are 12 larger paddocks and 5 holding paddocks with approximately 8.5 km of laneway running back to the yards. There is 2,557 Ha (6,320 Ac) inside the exclusion fence.

Yards:The large steel and portable panel cattle yards are permanent and have a concrete base loading ramp and 6 way draft with crows-nest. There is an 8m x 9m shed over the Warwick vet cattle crush working area and a 6m x 6m shed over the calf branding cradle. Water with a sprinkler system is connected to the yards and there are weigh scales mounted under the cattle crush. The old 7m x 11m woolshed has had an 8m x 13m extension added to it and it is now used as a storage or feed shed.

Carrying Capacity:Vendors estimate that Barragunda will comfortably carry 1100 breeders plus progeny in an average season.

Livestock & Plant:Barragunda will be offered for sale bare of livestock, plant, equipment and materials. Any items that remain on the property at settlement, will become the property of the purchaser.

Agent Remarks:This is a great opportunity to purchase a very good quality property that would be ideal for either breeding, backgrounding or fattening in a tick free, 475mm rainfall area.
There is an excellent body of Mitchell, Flinders and Buffel grass, as well as other native grasses and sweet fattening summer herbages growing on the pebbly chocolate/red fertile soils.
The infrastructure improvements on Barragunda are in good to very good condition with respectable working condition fencing, cattle/sheep/goat yards, waters, buildings and homestead. The vendors are presenting for sale, a functional easy care property that will produce high weight gains for a low cost.