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Farms for Sale in Northern QueenslandAffordable farms for sale in North Western Queensland.
The Atherton Tablelands with it's climate, soil and water you can produce prime cattle and/or grow almost anything. Combine this with a lifestyle where you are surrounded by picturesque and stunning scenery, where you can hop off to a tropical island for the weekend, take in some Culture in Cairns, board a plane to the world, choose from hundreds of restaurants, go diving over coral reefs, sport fishing, and avail yourself of summer temperatures in winter, makes for a great area to live. Hughenden situated in the Flinders Shire is predominantly a grazing area with fertile basalt red and black volanic soil country north of the Flinders River that consists of cattle properties, with the fertile black cracking soil downs country south of Hughenden providing suitable grazing land for sheep and cattle. Hughenden is located in the Flinders Shire, 386 kilometres south-west of Townsville and 518 kilometres East of Mt Isa on the fully sealed Flinders Highway. The Flinders Shire covers an area of 41,632 square kilometres. Flinders Shire has an average rainfall between 350mm (14") and 450mm ( 18") annually. The heaviest falls (known as the 'wet season') occur usually between December and March. The Shire is located above the Great Artesian Basin and relies on Sub-artesian bores for its water supply.
Our cattle producers have recently undertaken a Quality Assurance progamme to ensure that our beef will be the best in the world. The cattlemen have also embraced an electronic ear tag identification system which will give lifetime tracibility for cattle which will provide benefits for our market security. Return to home page Farms for Sale
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