The Preuss pioneering family is selling two handy sized add-on cropping blocks on the southern tip of the Yorke Peninsula.
Bilneys and The Block take in 212ha (523 acres) nine kilometres south-west of Yorketown.
The farm blocks are about two kilometres apart.
What has agents from Elders Real Estate excited is their location in the renowned farming hundreds of Moorowie and Melville.
They were among the first hundreds thrown open for land selection in the 1860's from the big sheep runs when ownership was limited to the old square mile.
The early SA governments chose these early "hundreds" or hundred square miles because of their obvious worth as rich farming country.
The Preuss family name has a long connection to the early settlement of the area which won early agricultural fame as a barley growing area.
Both blocks are for sale through Elders Real Estate by expressions of interest closing on September 29.
Land on the tightly held YP has been selling for incredible sums in recent years, with a record of $9.9 million paid for adjacent lots across 307 hectares (760 acres) for an incredible $13,026 per acre earlier in the year.
The Preuss land is being offered for sale in two non-contingent lots.
Collectively the properties comprise about 400 arable acres.
The Bilney's title shares a SA Water meter and has about 170 arable acres and The Block has approximately 230 arable acres.
Both are located in a highly productive and high yielding cropping area.
Agents say potential buyers have the the opportunity to obtain one or both listed lots "to add reliability and benefits to any agricultural business".
The farm blocks feature easy working fertile soil consists of brown, grey loam with an annual rainfall average of approximately 350- 400mm.
Agents say the vendor's farm rain records for the past decade equate to 436mm annually.
The titles have wide open paddocks with good access, suitable for large machinery and currently has the cropping rotation of lentils, wheat, canola and barley.
The properties square shape layout lends itself to large paddocks with straight runs which have several entry points, positioned around the titles to deliver commodities to numerous close delivery locations.
For more information contact Miles Cockington on 0418 859417.
Chris McLennan
ACM national rural property writer based in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. Career journalist. Multi award winner.
ACM national rural property writer based in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. Career journalist. Multi award winner.
