Dairy property for sale: Heath Road, Gorae West, Victoria

THE owners of a Western District dairy farm poured plenty of love into their property at Gorae West.

All set up: This immaculate farm with home at Gorae West is described as highly productive.

THE owners of a Western District dairy farm poured plenty of love into their property at Gorae West.

After all, they were planning to stay there for their farming lifetimes.

But according to selling agent Michael Golby, from Dundas Coastal Real Estate, that all changed when they got the chance to upscale.

It’s meant this 104ha property has now come on the market and that will act to the buyers’ advantage, he said.

“The current owners will have been there 14 years in April and they set this farm up to stay there,” Michael said.

“They got the place tapping along nicely but now they have the chance to go back to their bigger farming operation.”

GORAE WEST

1620 HEATH ROAD

PROPERTY: Dairy

SIZE: 104ha

SALE: Auction January 20 at 1pm

PRICE: $9840-$11,070/ha

AGENT: Dundas Coastal Real Estate

CONTACT: Michael Golby, 0409 527 029

The Gorae West property is about 15 minutes’ drive from Portland and 45 minutes from Mt Gambier, South Australia.

Michael said the mix of country on the farm made it highly productive.

“The balance is perfect with higher country and some good summer country,” he said. Rainfall ranges between 800 and 975mm and the soils are described as highly productive with an excellent fertiliser ­history. There are internal and external cypress hedges which provide shade and shelter for stock.

The property is fenced into 49 paddocks and serviced by laneways. Stock water is provided through troughs, which are serviced with poly pipe.

Improvements include a four-bedroom house which was renovated five years ago, a large hayshed, machinery shed and workshop.

The dairy infrastructure is an 11-a-side double-up dairy with automatic cup removers and a 9200-litre milk vat.

The operation has been milking a couple of hundred cows.

Michael said there were “very genuine reasons” why such a well-developed and well-run farm was on the ­market.

“It’s fantastic to see they are upscaling in the dairy industry but it also gives someone else the chance to get a farm which is a really good asset,” he said.