Water security for the Property and feedlot is secured by dams and a bore with 296* megalitre bore licence. The bore currently yields three* megalitres per day.
LAWD has listed the southern NSW Ladysmith Feedlot, a 6,500 head fully licensed beef feedlot, for sale.
The property has a land buffer of 735* hectares suited to dryland cropping, fodder production, and backgrounding underpinned by a full array of operational facilities and 571* millimetres annual rainfall, located only 20km from the major regional city of Wagga Wagga.
The fully licenced 6,500 head Beef feedlot is complete with the full array of improvements to be a highly efficient, operating feedlot.
A total of 97 pens including 80 home pens, 11* receival and exit pens, six* processing pens along with 4,500* metres of concrete feed bunk space provide adequate space. 20*pens have shade installed. All cattle receival, exit and processing is completed undercover.
The processing area is efficient and well designed. The silencer hydraulic crush is centre controlled along with a Proway weigh box, Trutest weigh scales and six drafting pens.
The feed processing facility contains a Benmic roller mill, commodity storage in concrete bunkers and silos with a covered grain receival area. Additional feedlot improvements include workshop, weighbridge, stables, hayshed, silage bunkers and a large office with full amenities, weather station and security camera monitoring system.
On site accommodation include a manager’s residence, workman’s cottage and a fully contained flat.
The land surrounding the feedlot ranges from quality irrigable creek flats, through to undulating dryland cropping and grazing. In conjunction with the 4,800* head quarantine area the water points and feed bunkers in paddocks increase the opportunity for cattle backgrounding.
Soil tests indicate very fertile soils with high Phosphorus levels and organic matter, underpinned by a 571*millimetre rainfall, providing production certainty and scope in addition to the feedlot.
Water security for the Property and feedlot is secured by dams and a bore with 296* megalitre bore licence. The bore currently yields three* megalitres per day.
The Property is only 20 kilometres to the major regional centre of Wagga Wagga, and six* kilometres to the Wagga Wagga domestic airport.
Wagga Wagga has a major regional livestock selling complex and meat processing facilities. This major city provides access to a large labour resource.
Ladysmith Feedlot is available for sale via Expression of Interest with a closing date of November 16 at 11am (AEDT).
-LAWD