Farm for Sale in Merweville

Expansive, well managed livestock farm with good carrying capacity in the Western Cape near Merweville in the Great Karoo with added income potential.

Karoo farming - “Input costs down – Income up”

Introduction: This larger farming unit is perfect for the discerning business person or progressive farmer as the healthy environment, historically record breaking onion seed

harvests and inherent safety on Karoo farms makes this a very attractive consideration The farm is situated 24 Km’s from Merweville, 120 km’s from Beaufort West and

Laingsburg, 240 km’s from George, only 370 km’s from Cape town and the N1 South/North is only 23 km’s from the farm. Farm Size: Totalling 7256 hectares

Price: R15 500 000 - (Owner is Vat registered and the farm can be sold as a going concern - livestock to be negotiated with owner). If buyer is not registered for VAT, 15%

VAT will be added to purchase price.

Buildings:

Main house: Consisting of 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, family room, kitchen and dining

room, pantry, 2 store rooms, scullery, large braai room, 5 garages and a swimming pool.

Large pack shed with 3 phase electrical fan for drying seed.

Three labour cottages.

Separate poison store room.

Fully equipped shearing shed.

Ample livestock handling facilities.

Development: 7 Hectares of mature pomegranate trees (Cultivar: Wonderful) is currently underutilised and needs corrective pruning and an irrigation and fertilizer management plan to bring it back into production.

1.5 Hectares irrigated lands ideal for onion or carrot seed production. (A portion of the pomegranate orchards can also be changed back to previously high yielding seed

production lands).

16 Livestock camps, averaging 300-500 hectares each with 2 to 3 livestock watering points on average per camp.

Water:

1 Borehole equipped (electric) - 15000 L/hr plus 1 unequipped borehole - +_7000 L/hr.

4 boreholes equipped with windmills and 5 equipped with solar pumps – these are all

utilised for delivery to livestock watering points.

Electricity: Eskom 3 phase.

Fencing: 2 Sides border fences of the farm are Jackal proof and remaining 2 sides are electrified stock proof. Al fencing is kept in good condition.

Topography: Typical Karoo topography consisting of plains with river beds, dry flats, hills, apron veldt and mountainous areas with kloofs and plateau’s.

Vegetation: Acacia Karoo thorn trees, short and long legged Boesman grass, granaat bush and various species of Karoo bush – all species present to have meat produced on

this farm certified as “Karoo meat”.

Game: 40 Springbuck, migrating Kudu and various smaller game species like klipspringer etc.

General: The owner has always followed a management program of stocking the veldt with only 65-70% of the carrying capacity and decreases livestock during drier spells to

prevent over grazing of the veldt. This management program has prevented the veldt from being over utilized and the rotational camp grazing system also prevents certain

camps from being over grazed.

The official stocking rate for the area is 1/36 large stock units which gives the farm an approximate 1000 plus ewe carrying capacity. The owner generally keeps 600-700

Merino type ewes on the farm.