Belmore Westbrook Road, Oberne Creek, NSW 2650

A quality grazing property suited to cattle or sheep in the tightly held Oberne Valley south east of Wagga Wagga.

Belmore is 30*km south of Tarcutta which is on the Hume Highway, at the midpoint between Sydney and Melbourne in the south west slopes region of New South Wales. Belmore is 75*km south-east of the regional centre of Wagga Wagga and all it offers.

The property features rolling country with creek flats, valleys and rises to hills at 500m ASL. Soils are fertile loams and decomposed granite with some granite outcrops. Water is secure and working infrastructure suits this high-rainfall breeding and grazing property with scale in the South West Slopes.

Covering 1,967 acres on two titles Belmore has 1,300* acres of improved country with phalaris, rye and clover with the balance sheltered native timber hill grazing. The improved country has received fertilizer applications of single super annually.

Our vendors have run Belmore as a cattle breeding and fattening operation. Belmore is equally suited to sheep enterprises or cattle trading. As part of the sale process reduced their cow numbers from 350 breeders and replacements. The vendors run two herds with Autumn and Spring calving cows. The 110* Autumn calving cows are calving from mid March and their 2020 weaners are still on hand. There are 140* Spring calving cows with calves at foot, soon to be weaned. Plus there are the 2019 joined replacement heifers 90*, (majority due to calve in the Spring).

Water is a feature with multiple water sources, including three permanent creeks, being the Wattle, Bedding and Tarcutta creeks. The parcel has 25 dams and a licensed stock and domestic bore that gravity feeds from a cement tank to 6 troughs and the houses. There is also 45,000l rainwater storage. The Oberne district average annual rainfall is 860mm

Working improvements include, steel cattle yards with 300 head capacity, pound, loading ramp and all weather access, four bay machinery shed with one lockable bay and two phase power, timber machinery shed, chemical shed, two hay sheds and a two stand woolshed.

Residence, the spacious north facing brick homestead has three-bedrooms, an office, two bathrooms, multiple living spaces, formal dining and a billiard room. Living is comfortable with reverse cycle heating and cooling, slow combustion heating and an open fireplace in the formal sitting room. The home is sited above the Tarcutta Creek in a low maintenance garden with a tennis court. In addition to the homestead there is a one-bedroom brick cottage close to the cattle yards.

Belmore is under contract.

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** To view aerial and topo maps of Belmore click on the Interactive Farm Maps link at the bottom of the main photo. ** Property ID: #LWG2566