Web Ref No CLS1954

High income generating commercial farm at Prime location with transferable production contract for 10 years.

Exclusively marketed by Seeff Agri

Welcome to Hillside Farms, this top commercial farming concern, consists of 3 farms, each held in a company and duly registered as such. The farms border each other and are conveniently situated next to the R43 a mere 10 km. from Worcester and 5 kilometers from N1.

One of the farms (Weltevrede) is a broiler raising production unit with 12 broiler chicken houses. A new, transferable production contract with RCL, for a additional term for 10 years, signed on 1 December 2022. The Broiler production consist of 8 cycles per year with 500 000 broilers per cycle and has be up and running for 20 years. The broiler raising production unit offers a brand new, fully automated, German engineered heating system that burns wood chips to produce the necessary heat for raising the flock. This system was put in place at a cost of R9.5m to reduce the energy cost of the intensive Boiler production unit. The farm produce ±6400 ton (live mass) per year.

The farm (Kleinbegin) has a sheep herd of 1250 ewes which is kept on 40 hectares of irrigated paddocks on a rotational basis for the breeding herd and a feedlot for growing the lambs from wean to slaughter There is also an additional 20 hectares with no irrigation where winter pastures are produced for hay production. There is also a fodder room with a capacity of 3 tons of germinated Barley, hydroponically grown over 6 days, are produced per day. This "seedlings" are mainly used to acclimatized the ewes from grazing to full feed - pre lambing period - and back to grazing - after weaning.

Hillside farm has a fetch roofed Venue that can host 200 guests with ease. It boasts ± 12 hectare of irrigated (part of the 40 hectares) pastures. This farm also has the lambing facilities with 120 lambing pens on a concrete floor with roof. There is also roofed sheds to house the ewes, in their groups from 6 weeks before lamb to ±14 days after lambing, when they are moved, with their lambs to the feedlot until the lambs are weaned.

The farms are part of a water scheme and has 7 holding dams across the properties with total water storage ability of ±350 000 m3. The three separate title deeds has 700 000 m3 water allocation, per year, from the scheme. Taking the water rights into account the farms offers several other income opportunities be it vegetables, Blueberries or Fruit.

Improvements on the properties consist of

- Main house

The Well kept Main house consist of 7 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, Lounge, Dining room, TV room, Braai room, scullery, 2 sunrooms , 2 offices, Kitchen and 5 Garages with a small Workshop. It also has a attached Flat with 2 Bedrooms, Lounge, Bathroom and Office

The farms also has the additional managers housing - farm situated on in bracket;

1. Three bedroom house with 2 Bathrooms, TV room, lounge, Kitchen,
Scullery, Office and double Garages. (Hillside)

2. Three bedroom house with, Bathroom, Lounge, Kitchen and Garage. (Hillside)

3. Three bedroom house with, Bathroom, Lounge, Kitchen and Garage. (Hillside)

4. Four bedroom house with 1.5 Bathrooms, Lounge, Kitchen, Scullery and
Garage (Weltevrede)

5) Four Bedroom house with 2 Bathrooms, 2 Lounges, Playroom, Dining room,
Kitchen, Office, Braai room and 2 Garages. This house also has a 1 Bedroom flat with Bathroom and open plan lounge and kitchen. (Kleinbegin)

6) Three bedroom house with 1.2 Bathrooms, Lounge, Sun room, Kitchen, Braai
room and Garage. (Kleinbegin)

7) Three Bedroom House with Lounge, Kitchen, Bathroom with Garage. This
house also has a 1 Bedroom flat, with Lounge, Dining room, Kitchen,
Bathroom and Garage. This dwelling can also be utilized as 2 x 2 Bedroom
cottages. (Kleinbegin)

8) 2 x Two Bedroom cottages with Lounge, Kitchen, Bathroom and Garage
(Kleinbegin)

7) Seven laborer Houses 3 x 3 Bedrooms, 3 x 2 Bedrooms and 1 x 1 Bedroom.
All with 1 x Lounges, 1x Kitchens and 1 x Bathroom. Also with build in
cupboards. (Kleinbegin)



Other improvements on the farm consists of

- Tennis Court with floodlights (Hillside)
- Swimming pool (Hillside)
- Quarantine store
- Industrial shed
- Workshop
- Shearing Shed

Electricity

2 x 315 kva Eskom point (Weltevrede)
1 x 150 kva Eskom point (Kleinbegin)


This property offers various opportunities for expansion especially in the Intensive Sheep farming category .

This farm currently boast a gross income of ± R25m pa and such high production farms does not come onto the market that often.

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