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Farm for Sale in Butterworth, Eastern Cape for sale

Farm for Sale

Slaapkamers:
4
Badkamers:
2
The farm is situated adjacent to the picturesque Loerie River, towards the lower reaches of the Gamtoos valley, but still forms part of the Gamtoos irrigation scheme
Made up of 1 title, the property is 84.4 ha in extent.
Description
This is an extremely picturesque property situated in a very picturesque valley. The farm climbs from basically sea level on the Loerie River in the West to maximum elevation of over 110m in the South Eastern corner. The farm consists of 3 distinctive ridges with deep drainage lines in between. The slopes are well wooded with classic Uitenhage succulent thicket, while the flatter areas have deep alluvial soils that have all been put to productive pasture.
The Loerie river frontage itself is beautiful and may easily lend itself to a hospitality venture. One is able to drop a canoe in here and paddle right out to sea.
Veld types
As discussed, the bulk of the property is well wooded with Uitenhage valley bushveld and succulent thicket. Browse here is excellent with healthy stands of specboom wild olive common guarri and acacia Karoo as well as beautiful clusters of the unpalatable by very picturesque Aloe ferrox. Veld grazing is predominately Themeda with some pannicums evident in the protected thickets, while all of the 28odd hectares of arable ground is under kikuyu with significant showings of Lucerne coming through.
Rainfall / Water
The farm falls in a transition summer / winter rainfall area with an annual average of 580mm. Irrigation and domestic water is drawn from the Gamtoos irrigation scheme pipeline (registered allocation of 12.95h) which has sufficient pressure in it to reach the storage tanks above the house. The former is fed through an ingenious filtration and settling out process which yields crystal clear water in 10 000 l batches. An approximate 16h is under dragline irrigation although in some instances, the mother lines etc may need an upgrade.
Improvements
The main farm house is a very nice 4 bedroom unit with 2 full bathrooms, a large fitted kitchen, large living room, separate dining room, tv room and lovely outside braai area. there are numerous outbuildings including a one bedroom flatlet, large shed with lockable tool room, bird aviaries and rudimentary pig sty?s. The previous owner used to raise dairy calves there and there is a well developed camp system with milking races for the surrogate cows. In addition there are a total of 5 feedlot pens currently in use with a total capacity of around 100 animals.
Conclusion
The farms location is excellent, within easy striking distance of both Jeffreys Bay and Port Elizabeth. The river frontage is spectacular and affords not only a superb lifestyle, but also good commercial opportunity. With the irrigation and arable lands one has a number of recreational (horses) or semi commercial stock opportunities as well as a very viable vegetable potential. As a semi retirement option or simply a lovely farm lifestyle opportunity, this would prove a vey rewarding acquisition.
Price R 3 mill (Owner is VAT registered, but farm can be bought as a going concern)
4 BEDROOM HOUSE
IRRIGATION
CAMPS
LIVESTOCK

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