An exciting opportunity to acquire the 7000+ acre Saltbush Ag aggregation has opened up in the lush mid-north region of South Australia at Booborowie and Leighton.
Ray White Rural South Australia principals Geoff Schell and Daniel Schell are proudly marketing the aggregation for the Handbury family who have made the strategic decision to divest their farming assets in the highly productive mid north to focus further south.
The aggregation comprises six properties located in the Booborowie and Leighton areas which can be purchased in one line offering a scale very rarely offered in this area, or in individual lots.
“This is a very special opportunity and I have lived and worked in this area for over 30 years. There’s been good interest from all over the country so far,” said Geoff Schell.
“It’s a unique opportunity to invest in such a large-scale farming operation in this highly regarded region of South Australia,” he said.
“The Booborowie / Leighton district is highly recognised for its suitability and flexibility to broad enterprise options including growing cereals, oil seeds, legumes, hay production, prime lamb and wool production.”
The aggregation focuses on integration from broadacre cropping and prime lamb production benefiting from scale, operational efficiency, fertile soils and strategic location within close proximity to markets.
The infrastructure across the properties, includes two main homesteads, five additional homes, hay and implement sheds, sheep feedlot, two shearing sheds, irrigation pivots, grain storage silos, workshops and other shedding.
Mr Schell said underground water was one of the key assets with supply from equipped bores, including irrigation bores.
Pastoralist Paddy Handbury said his family had owned the aggregation for 27 years.
“When times are good, good properties come up and we have just bought three cracking properties closer to home. So we’re keen for our son Jack and his family to move down south while his family is still young and he can run Saltbush Ag from the expanded property aggregation around Lucindale.”
The Handburys have been landowners in South Australia since they bought the famous Collinsville merino and poll merino stud in 1995.
They sold the stud empire in 2014 after 19 years of ownership, ensuring its survival as one of the country’s great suppliers of superior merino genetics.
“We’ve had a long association with South Australia since Collinsville and Saltbush Ag’s mid north aggregation is made up of some prized fertile country, ideal for cropping, prime lamb, hay production and merino sheep,” Mr Handbury said.
“There’s plenty of water too and it works very well in our aggregation of hay and cereal growing. The opportunity is available to buy in a line, or we’d consider individual blocks.”
The expressions of Interest campaign closes on Thursday 15 December 2022.
