This fabulous Dairy Farm is located perfectly not far from the N3 Corridor situated approximately 2.5 hours from Durban and 3.5 hours from Gauteng, South Africa. The property is beautiful and superbly located to take advantage of the popular cattle farming area. Known as the Lowlands, KZN, the area is very scenic and is a popular Beef and Dairy Farming area. There are also several Game Farms, making this property with its excellent accessibility, ideally suited to an array of mixed use Agri initiatives and developments. The farm is located approximately 5 kilometres west of Colenso, KwaZulu Natal and is accessed off the district road leading between Colenso and Winterton which bisects the farm. Surrounding properties comprise a mixture of dairy farms, cropping farms and extensive grazing farms. Land use comprises of predominately Kikuyu and Ryegrass irrigated pastures, mixed dryland pastures, veld grazing divided into 5 grazing camps watered by natural sources.
The current use of the land comprises an intensive dairy and extensive grazing farm of 947 hectares. An area of 206 hectares is under centre pivot irrigation from the Tugela River and the balance of the land predominantly veld grazing. There are options to develop a further 120ha under Pivot. Improvements include a modern, well equipped dairy, 2 homesteads and an assortment of semi-redundant outbuildings. The diary comprises of a 465m building with 475m concrete assembly area and 250m yard with handling facilities. Steel frame, partly enclosed with face brick under IBR roof, concrete floors, pit and yard. Enclosed area includes office, vet room, staff room, toilets and shower. It is a 24-point swing-over equipped dairy, automatic feeders, 26 000lt bulk tank capacity, 45kW generator, and a GEA dairy plan software system. The property has water rights from the Tugela river and for Domestic stock, water is supplied by a spring, borehole, and pump on the dam to reservoirs and reticulated to water points on the farm. Electricity - There are 4 transformers on the property, 2 at the pumpstations, 1 at the homestead and 1 at the dairy building. The main homestead complex comprises of a 550sqm 4 bedroom old farm style home, a 2 bedroom cottage, garages, 2x workshops, 2x open implement sheds, stores, old dairy and calf pens.
There are currently 350 milk cows that are milked each day, but the farm and dairy has capacity to facilitate 700. Livestock and some farming equipment can be included at an additional price, speak to Agent about pricing. This is an excellent piece of Real Estate and fantastic farm. Pls note that the Seller is VAT registered and the transaction therefore attracts VAT.
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