Lovely 230 HA Cherry/Irrigation Farm Near Lydenburg NEW LISTING
Uploaded: April 12, 2024
This lovely 230 HA Cattle/Irrigation Farm is located approximately 300 Kilometers from Pretoria, Near Lydenburg. Extensive weather data from recent years highlights this farm’s ideal conditions for a diverse range of cherry varieties with varying cold requirements unfolding a prime market for cherry cultivation. Additionally, our region is well-suited for growing almonds, pecans, kiwi fruit, and blueberries. With over 50 HA of land perfectly suited for cherries and other tree crops, the opportunities for successful cultivation are vast. The farm also offers various improvements and potential. The farm has a Global Gap certificate and meets all export standards.
Improvements
- The farm is home to a main house which consists of three bedrooms and an apartment that can be used as an office.
- A secondary residence consist of three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and an attached apartment.
- There is an additional apartment with one bedroom and a lock-up garage.
- There is a wooden house with three bedrooms, a laundry room, a spare bathroom, a storage room, and a garage.
- Outbuildings include two sheds of 450 meters squared, one shed of 160 meters squared, and another shed of 180 meters squared. There is a cold room of 156 meters squared as well as a security camera surveillance system. There is a new FAW, underroof, standby generator of 100kVA that generates enough to power the whole farm.
- The farm has water rights and water is sourced from a 20 000 cubic meter dam, three perennial rivers on the farm, a new dam of 22 000 cubic meters which hasn't been equipped yet, three boreholes for household use, and there are two pump stations with VSD pumps.
- There is 50 HA of irrigated land of which 3.5 HA is cherries under hail nets with micro irrigation and evaporative cooling style, with electric fencing. These cherries were planted in August 2019 with their first harvest in October 2022. The cultivars planted are 1462 Hazel trees and 2939 Tioga trees. 35 HA is under center pivots. There is 8 HA of other irrigation, and 3 HA of old fields that are not currently in use.
- There is 179 HA of pastures which are newly fenced with water troughs.
- There is a cattle pen with cattle handling facilities and covered goat pens with 60 HA of foxwire camps.
Land Claims
There are no land claims registered against this property nor any rural areas nearby.
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