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.”
