AN ICONIC home built in 1907 for the first mayor of Berrigan Shire and a prominent pro-Federation activist is the centrepiece of Nangunia, a sprawling mixed farming operation in the southern Riverina region of NSW.
Located 6km from Berrigan and 40km from Mulwala, Nangunia offers fertile soil types, a sound fertiliser history and 1220ha of arable broad-scale land coupled with highly productive grazing country.
BERRIGAN, NSW
NANGUNIA
PROPERTY: Mixed farming
SIZE: 1803ha
SALE: Tenders closing October 4
PRICE: About $5.5 million, plus 2018 crops
AGENT: Elders Deniliquin
CONTACT: Matt Horne, 0409 355 733
Divided into 16 main paddocks with assured water supply and all-weather internal roadways, the property has 1090ha under crop and runs about 1600 Merino breeding ewes joined for first-cross lamb production, and for wool.
The homestead was built for Emmanuel Gorman, who arrived in Berrigan in 1888 as a stock and station agent and bought Nangunia in the mid-nineties, later ascending to the position of first president of Berrigan Shire Council.
HIGH DEMAND, LIMITED SUPPLY TO DRIVE AG LAND VALUES
MICKLEHAM DAIRY FARM NOW A PROPERTY GOLDMINE
Set in 2ha of irrigated gardens, the double-brick homestead has five bedrooms (though seven or eight would be possible), three bathrooms, parlour, billiards room, butler’s room, wood-burning heater and in-ground, heated swimming.
Period features include wide verandas, polished Murray Pine floorboards, pressed-metal ceilings, 10 fireplaces, tiled foyer and the prominent use of stained glass.
Other improvements include a renovated two-bedroom cottage, quartermaster’s residence, five-stand shearing shed with undercover yards for 500 sheep, large machinery shed, workshop, hay sheds, fertiliser shed and grain storage facilities totalling 6500 tonnes.
The property has been owned by the Steel family for the past nine years.
“Since then we’ve done a lot of fencing in the stock areas, rehabilitated access laneways and renovated pastures with a mix of lucerne, cocksfoot, rye and clovers, as well as general farm maintenance,” Simon Steel said.
“Soils range from red risers to the heavier self-mulching types, with a lot of rice-approved ground.
“Crops we’ve sown have been mainly a rotation of wheat, barley and canola, with rice crops scattered through the years when we’ve had water for them, and lupins in odd years.”
Simon said the country was suitable for both winter and summer crops, with the potential to grow anything from cereals to oilseeds to maize, rice or cotton.
“We have a pressurised stock and domestic water supply through Murray Irrigation, pumped to the homestead and around the property, plus further MIL entitlements and another allowance from the West Corurgan PID (Private Irrigation District) via channels,” Simon said.
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