98 Higgins Road

Taminick VIC 3675

While its address is 98 Higgins Road with a second truck access at 613 Irvine Road Thoona it has a long access also to the main Glenrowan to Boweya Road and is only fifteen kilometres by bitumen from Glenrowan township and the Hume Freeway linkage. It has been held and operated for three generations of the Kemp family ownership, who first acquired the property fifty years ago in 1974. And they have operated a substantial contract fat lamb operation of up to 3000 head annual turnoff, plus Angus cattle fattening operation plus up to 130 hectares potential of grains cropping has been conducted here. The property is described as one of the most productive and potential laden farm properties in a proven and reliable district.
'Tarrawatta' runs almost five kilometres diagonally or is more than nineteen kilometres around the boundary fencing.
It is subdivided into twenty-five paddocks with a significant mix of farming infrastructure in place.

The property includes a spacious, liveable house with four large bedrooms, a study and two bathrooms, suitable for a growing family. The two living areas are complimented by two open fires. The Kitchen also has a woodfire oven. Outside there is a tennis court and swimming pool that can easily be rejuvenated. The garden benefits from permanent gravity fed spring water.
The property has an ideal mix of belts of higher forested land adjoining the landmark Winton range which provides excellent shelter for cattle and acts as a significant rainfall trap and catchment, adjoined by the significant expanse of level to rolling farming country- gradient about two percent. And there are significant springs on the property.
There is a natural cross property drainage system that conveys this water flow to its eastern most point.

This provides significant natural water resources for the mixed farming operation of fat lambs, Angus cattle fattening and cropping choices of wheat, canola, barley etc.
There is a plan in place and partly implemented to create a centre pivot summer cropping option under a significant centre pivot system on one portion where three phase power has been brought to the pump site and installed. A plan is in place to install an Upton centre pivot to irrigate twenty-five hectares of pasture for summer pasture production in accord with a 120 megalitre irrigation licence. The 'Tarrawatta' farm property has two large turkey nest dams plus multiple paddock dams as all the water retrieved from the hill slopes and springs are brought across the farm.
The fat lamb enterprise has seen up to three thousand lambs contracted to two important abattoir processors.
The vendor reports that his winter crop operation was conducted over one hundred and thirty hectares, but he considers the potential scope for cropping is much larger.
'Tarrawatta' has also run 120 Angus cows and there are separate cattle and sheep yards.

There are 80 hectares of established lucerne pastures across four paddocks that is used for finishing the fat lambs.
There is significant farming infrastructure and shedding in place plus a farm office and a two-stand equipped shearing shed.
There is also a pumped connection available to the local Thoona pipeline pumped water supply.
'Tarrawatta' is opposite the Witherswood Angus stud and several other larger farms including a feedlot.
It is also nearby two established Taminick district wineries (Baileys and Booth's wineries and vineyards).

Elders Real Estate's selling agent Michael Everard says that 'Tarrawatta' is one of those farming properties where you can see the potential of the landform, its potential enterprise flexibility and productivity.
"it comes to the market after fifty years of family ownership and is ripe for new management and enterprise endeavors.