AMIXED farming property near the Macquarie Marshes to be auctioned next month gives prospective buyers an opportunity to secure proven sheep and cattle breeding country with cropping and finishing options.
"Glencoe" is a 3204 hectare (7917ac) property previously owned by the late Colin Rodgers who died last year.
It is being offered for genuine sale now by his estate to wind up his affairs.
The property has been listed with Meares and Associates of Sydney and Landmark Wilson Russ of Warren, and will be submitted to online auction from September 21 to September 23.
Mr Rodgers, a Sydney builder and recreational aviator, bought "Glencoe" in about 2001 as a rural getaway and investment.
He would fly his plane to the property, or in later years drive, when illness prevented him flying.
Estimated to carry 400 to 450 cows and progeny, with the added potential to farm between 1200ha to 1400ha, the property represents an ideal breeding and opportunity finishing "add-on" to an existing livestock operation.
Flanking the eastern edge of the Macquarie Marshes, "Glencoe" is described as ideal winter herbage country, with exposure also to periodic beneficial flooding from the Long Plain Cowl, which it intersects.
It has carried both sheep and cattle through the years as well as being cropped with wheat, barley and oats, and is now lightly stocked with 600 ewes and agistment cattle.
Average rainfall is 447 millimetres and following well-timed winter rain this year the country is supporting a lush body of clovers and other winter feed.
Situated 20 kilometres north-west of Quambone and 80km west of Coonamble, "Glencoe" comprises mostly open, lightly timbered grazing country of heavy grey floodplain soils with areas of red soils.
Mr Rodgers in recent years has upgraded the stock water systems, fencing and working infrastructure of the property to make it easy to manage.
Two equipped bores, capped and piped, supply water to seven holding tanks for reticulation to 13 paddock troughs, supplemented by nine dams.
The main machinery shed is a large steel structure with enclosed workshop and incorporating a lockable aircraft hangar at one end.
Other working structures include a three-stand shearing shed and steel sheep yards, steel cattle yards to handle up to 150 head, three Twister silos of 80-tonne capacity and assorted storage sheds.
An original four-bedroom weatherboard homestead is complemented by a well-maintained shearers' quarters with two bedrooms and amenities.
Bidding for "Glencoe" is expected upwards of $2 million, and the successful purchaser will have the first option to buy livestock on hand and any plant and equipment.
Peter Austin
Former editor and long time columnist and property writer for The Land.
Former editor and long time columnist and property writer for The Land.
