THIS week’s property review includes this wrap-up of interesting recent listings across northern New South Wales, and two separate articles on listings in southern NSW and other states.

• Top of the range aggregation offered by well-known consultants
• Eaglehawk Angus lists Inverell grazing & feedlot
• Dress circle cattle country returns to spring market
• Chinese company lists Liverpool Plains country
• Swain family puts $9.5m on Carinda’s Warrawing

The 1358ha Brucelyn and Mt Emby Aggregation is located in the highly regarded Ben Lomond district

Top of the range aggregation offered by well-known consultants

Feedlot veterinary and nutrition consultants Matt and Melissa George from Bovine Dynamics are auctioning their top of the range, high rainfall New England holding after purchasing adjoining country in the Brisbane Valley.

The 1358ha Brucelyn and Mt Emby Aggregation is located in the highly regarded Ben Lomond district and comprises the 956ha Brucelyn and the 402ha Mt Emby (which are divided by the Moredun Road).

Matt George

Ray White Rural agent Andrew Starr was unable to offer a price guide, however the couple purchased Brucelyn in 2021 for $14.35 million and Mt Emby in 2022 for $7.9 million.

While the aggregation has stand-alone scale, Mr Starr said the holding has attracted good interest from Queensland producers seeking a high rainfall, weightgain block for high quality weaners.

He said the basalt soils and established perennial pastures support exceptional grazing productivity.

“Rising above 1400m on the Great Dividing Range, the aggregation benefits from a cool, temperate climate with an average annual rainfall of 950-1000mm.”

“These favourable conditions support the robust growth of perennial pastures, ensuring consistent and high-quality beef weight gain performance,” Mr Starr said.

The Brucelyn and Mt Emby Aggregation is watered by a bore, Moredun Creek frontage, spring-fed gullies and dams.

During their ownership, the Georges have installed around 18km of new fencing and completed a reticulation system and trough network.

Infrastructure includes two renovated, four-bedroom homes, two cattle yards, a shearing shed, sheep and cattle yards and numerous sheds.

Brucelyn and Mt Emby will be auctioned on November 7.

Eaglehawk Angus lists Inverell grazing & feedlot

In north-western New South Wales, Ian and Sally Vivers of Eaglehawk Angus have listed their integrated enterprise combining cattle grazing, fodder cropping and a feedlot with hopes of raising between $18 million and $20 million.

Situated in a 758mm average annual rainfall region, the 1296ha Rivendell is located 19km east of Inverell and 49km west of Glen Innes.

Described as turnkey, it is being sold by the family, who have breeding cattle in the region since 1832, after three years of ownership.

McCullough Agencies agent Daniel McCullough believes Rivendell is best suited to backgrounding 2000 head of cattle and finishing them in the feedlot.

“The fully operational 1000 head cattle feedlot has 13 steel pens with supplementary feed pens for 1500 cattle. It is fitted with water and feed troughs allowing flexibility for feedlot induction, backgrounding or opportunistic feeding,” he said.

Rivendell feedlot has Development Approval for up to 2000 head (subject to compliance) and is supported by full milling, feed and induction infrastructure.

The country is gently undulating, growing improved and native pastures. Around 750ha of the red, black and chocolate basalt soils, with rich black river flats, are arable.

Annually, 400ha is sown to winter cereal and fodder crops, 150ha to summer forage crops with 60ha established to lucerne for hay production and rotational grazing.

The Swanbrook Creek traverses the property with 5km of double frontage, with water also sourced from dams and a bore.

Infrastructure includes a four-bedroom home, two cottages, a manager’s residence, numerous sheds, steel cattle yards and 745 tonnes of grain and feed storage.

Rivendell will be auctioned on November 19.

Situated in a 758mm average annual rainfall region, the 1296ha Rivendell is located 19km east of Inverell and 49km west of Glen Innes.

Dress circle cattle country returns to spring market

Scenic high rainfall cattle country in the dress circle Wongwibinda/Ebor district of northern New South Wales has returned to the market with a $26 million to $28 million price guide.

The 1891ha Doughboy Mountain is situated on top of the Doughboy Mountain Range, 56km east of Guyra and 68km north-east of Armidale, and described as a red meat production factory.

Doughboy Mountain is in excellent company among some of the best grazing country on the eastern fall.

Gina Rinehart has country close by and the Roche Group owns Jeogla and Wallamumbi Stations (in fact, Doughboy would give the latter a backgrounding option they may not have).

The breeding, backgrounding and finishing country can turn over 2500 backgrounders.

Purchased in 2015 by the well-known agribusiness family TA Field Estates, managing director and chairman Michael Field said Doughboy has been running around 400 breeders plus heifer replacements, in addition to the annual drop of weaners from the company’s Congi Station, which are grown out to feeder weights.

Nutrien Boulton’s agent Bruce Rutherford described Doughboy as one of the district’s finest properties.

He said altitude is a feature, with much of the property rising from 1200m to 1495m above sea level.

“The cool temperate climate is ideal for pasture production. Around 80 percent of the undulating and hilly country has rich basalt soils growing a well-balanced mix of native and introduced grasses.”

Mr Rutherford said Doughboy Mountain was one of the first properties in New England to be top dressed, with cocksfoot, fescue and clovers responding well to the program which has been in place since the 1950s.

Located in a 900mm of average annual rainfall region, Doughboy Mountain has received 1500mm of rain to date and is watered by a bore, four spring-fed creeks and numerous spring-fed dams.

Infrastructure includes an architecturally designed four-bedroom home, a one-bedroom cottage, a four-stand shearing shed, sheep yards, steel cattle yards, numerous sheds and a 50-tonne fertiliser silo.

In recent years, most of the fencing has been replaced and this includes a significant area that has been exclusion fenced.

High points on Doughboy Mountain are almost 1500m above sea level

Chinese company lists Liverpool Plains country

Chinese development company Aohai Australia has relisted one of its prime Liverpool Plains cropping and grazing holdings in northern New South Wales.

In September last year, the company offered 13,000ha to the market spanning two properties – the 5351ha McEvers Park, which it has now decided to retain, and the 7737ha Butheroo.

After selling 755ha to a neighbour, the 6982ha Butheroo has returned to the market via expressions of interest.

Situated near Neilrex, 23km from Coolah and 89km from Dubbo, around 3600ha is used for beef and sheep production, 1100ha is arable, and the balance is remnant vegetation.

The productive soil types and gently undulating topography is underpinned by 643mm of average annual rainfall.

There is 50km of new fencing with partial boundary exclusion fencing, 75 dams and frontage to the Butheroo Creek.

Infrastructure includes several homes, two steel cattle yards, a three-stand shearing shed, numerous sheds and 13 silos with 550-tonnes of grain storage.

CBRE agents James Beer, Nick Connor, John Harrison and Thomas Quinn who have been appointed to handle the sale said preliminary investigations indicate a significant volume of high demand biodiversity credits could be available.

After selling 755ha to a neighbour, the 6982ha Butheroo has returned to the market via expressions of interest.

Swain family puts $9.5m on Carinda’s Warrawing

A dryland cropping, sheep and cattle breeding enterprise with established infrastructure for containment feeding cattle and sheep has been listed for $9.5 million ($1286/ha).

The 7385ha Warrawing is 22km from Carinda and 61km from Walgett, in the Western Plains region of New South Wales.

Offered by expressions of interest in August by Graham and Pauline Swain, the property neighbours country owned by prominent cotton growers Peter and Jane Harris.

Operated by sons Michael and Peter, the family is selling Warrawing after 25 years of ownership to concentrate on its 5000 head Kia Ora Feedlot business near Brewarrina in the state’s north-west.

Around 1144ha is arable with the grey, brown and red clays and red-brown earths sown to a winter crop for either fodder cropping and or cash cropping purposes, depending on the season.

This year, the Swains are growing 1144ha of wheat, which is included in the sale. Additional cropping development potential is subject to Local Land Services approval.

The balance comprises 5415ha of native pasture and herbage and 826ha of salt bush country capable of consistently running 1200 ewes and lambs and 250 cows and calves.

On the property is a drought lot (used for containment feeding) with capacity for up to 1500 cattle and 4000 sheep and lambs. It was established at the end of 2016 to take advantage of soft commodity prices and operated until the end of 2023.

Michael Swain said over that period, 700 to 1500 head of cattle were on feed at any one time, starting at 400kg and finished to 540kg for the domestic market.

Warrawing is watered by an 11km bore drain, a bore, seven dams, the Ginghet Creek and 9km of frontage to the Macquarie River, providing beneficial flood out opportunities, supported by a 447mm annual average rainfall.

Infrastructure includes a four-bedroom home, staff quarters, a cottage, cattle and sheep yards, a shearing shed, numerous sheds and grain storage. Over the last five years, 25km of new fencing has been erected.

LAWD agents Col Medway and Michael Corcoran are handling the sale.

Warrawing is watered by an 11km bore drain, a bore, seven dams, the Ginghet Creek and 9km of frontage to the Macquarie River, providing beneficial flood out opportunities, supported by a 447mm annual average rainfall.