Located at Lucindale in South Australia’s renowned South East region, one of the largest grazing properties in the district “Fairview” is for sale and is tipped to generate significant local interest from within the highly-prized district and nationally, including corporate buyers.
Colliers’ agents Jesse Manuel and Tim Altschwager have been appointed to handle the sale, with Expressions of Interest being sought this Spring for the 4,326-hectare (10,689 acre) sheep and cattle property.
The livestock enterprise at Fairview comprises a self-replacing cattle herd of Black Angus and Angus/Black Simmental cross cows, and predominantly a Merino ewe flock utilising Suffolk and Dorset rams for its crossbred enterprise.
National Director of Colliers Agribusiness Jesse Manuel said Fairview is an extremely well-balanced property offering a combination of open heavy flats, warmer hills grazing country, timbered grazing, with vast areas of improved pastures and several paddocks currently under crop for fodder production.
“Fairview operates a totally self-sufficient model in terms of its year-round stock feed requirements, producing all of its hay requirements on the property,” said Mr Manuel.
As evidence by the historical stocking rates that are modest compared to district averages, Fairview’s owners have always operated in a conservative fashion, and transitioned from a certified organic model to conventional farming around ten years ago,” he said.
In addition to implementing conventional methods since its transition, management has also undertaken extensive soil redevelopment projects across the property in recent years, including deep ripping sub-surface rock in the plains country for pasture roots to access clay, as well as claying the lighter hills country to increase moisture retention capacity of those soils.
Fairview Farm Manager Marc Dupree emphasises the significant potential to increase the overall carrying capacity of the property through further pasture improvement and soil redevelopment.
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