Property Information

Location:
25km from West of Alexandria, 80 km from Port Elizabeth

Size: 795.4245 Ha

Building Infrastructure:

The owners homestead on Emanual, is located near the dairy. 3 bedrooms 2 bathrooms, kitchen, pantry, lounge and dinning room. Swimming pool in need of repair and an outside braai / entertainment area.

Second owners homestead, neat well maintained 3 bedroomed, 2 bathroomed house.

The managers house on De Hoek currently tenanted but can be transferred vacant. 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, lounge, kitchen, dinning room. Large garden area with huge established trees.

Operational dairy parlor with a 16-point herring bone swingover, office, bulk tank room with 5000L bulk tank. Separate adjoining shed with calf rearing pens, sperate staff ablutions and feed store.

Face brick workshop and vehicle store shed enclosed on three sides with a single garage.

Large face brick tractor / fodder storage shed enclosed on three sides.

Face brick Fodder shed enclosed on three sides

Seven basic staff houses.

Old dairy building and two small storerooms on De Hoek.

Farm Infrastructure:
Well-developed camp infrastructure all with water provision and fencing in predominantly good condition.
Spray Race and cattle handling facilities with crush on De Hoek.
Two additional cattle handling facilities on Emanual both fitted with a crush.
Loading Ramp.
Good road infrastructure in fair condition.

Services
R72 tar road leads directly to the property.
5 Three Phase Eskom Electricity supply points.
Cell phone reception on most of the property.

Vegetation
Extensive developed arable lands predominantly planted to permanent pastures. Pasture lands include, Rhodes Grass, Gatton, Kikuyu, Lucerne and Oats. These areas make up the majority of the properties grazing capacity. Other cleared areas are covered by a mixture of natural veld grasses, Kweek and Kikuyu. The remaining veld is Valley Thicket and Grahamstown Mozaic Thicket with a strong grass component.

Water and water infrastructure:
5 operational boreholes yielding between 3000 and 2000 L / Hour supply all the farms water needs.
One fountain.
Annual rainfall of +-650mm/annum

Dairy Herd
Currently running as a dairy farm with a herd of Frisian Cows. +- 160 cows in milk, 30 – 40 dry cows at any given point, +- 80 replacement heifers between 6 and 18 month, 2 breeding bulls and +- 20 calves in the calf rearing pens. Average milk production is 25-26 L per cow per day, cows in the milk herd are given 8kg dry feed in the dairy for cows producing over 16 L per day and 4kg for cows producing under 16 L per day.

Game
Only naturally occurring game – Kudu, Bushbuck, Grey Duiker, Blue Duiker, Grysbok, Bushpig and Warthog.

Carrying Capacity:
Current estimated Carrying Capacity of this property is +- 265 LSU or 3 Ha per LSU

Asking Price: R12 750 000.00 + vat Read more...