THIS week’s property review includes this wrap-up of interesting recent listings across the country, and a separate article of recently completed sales of note.

• $25m for Stoney family’s NSW south-west portfolio
• NSW Western Plains’ Warrawing offers versatility
• 120 yrs of ownership to end with sale of SA’s Rundles
• Good interest in high rainfall NQ grazing asset
• Around $5.8m for Walgett’s Springvale
• New England’s Rockleigh Station lists for $14.9m
• NSW breeding country offers carbon potential

The 51,003ha Magenta Aggregation is located near Hatfield, 95km north of Balranald.

$25m for Stoney family’s NSW south-west portfolio

Sheep and cattle producer Chris Stoney, Minto Pastoral, is hoping to raise around $25 million ($494/ha or $200/ac) from the sale of his Balranald grazing aggregation in New South Wales’ far south-west.

The 51,003ha Magenta Aggregation is located near Hatfield, 95km north of Balranald. It comprises Magenta, Langleydale and Hillview Stations that were aggregated over the Stoney’s 14-year ownership.

Last year the family offloaded the historic Yaloke Station near Deniliquin after three years ownership.

Magenta has been run as a breeding property focused on prime lamb production and has historically run 12,000 ewes and annually harvested around 6000 rangeland goats.

Today it is carrying 8000 breeding ewes and 3000 weaners, as well as 1100 Angus weaners.

The exceptional heavy carrying breeding country has soft sweet open plains growing salt bush and blue bush, and is lightly timbered with rosewood, belah, pine, wilga and mallee.

The Magenta Aggregation has 320ha of cultivation, mosaic clearing permit over timbered country and a large gypsum deposit which will trade with the property.

Nutrien Russell Property & Livestock agent David Russell is already fielding good inquiry from the Riverina, Hay, Victoria and South Australia.

Across the aggregation, there are 52 dams, six bores and a shared pipeline from the Murrumbidgee River.

Infrastructure includes two homes, an eight-room workers quarters, three cattle yards, goat yards, four shearing sheds (including one with seven-stands), steel sheep yards, numerous sheds and three silos with 240-tonnes of grain capacity.

The Magenta Aggregation is available as a whole or as three separate assets. Expressions of interest close on September 19.

NSW Western Plains’ Warrawing offers versatility

Offers around $10 million are anticipated for a mixed farming opportunity in the Western Plains region of New South Wales.

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

Located 22km from Carinda and 61km from Walgett, the 7385ha Warrawing adjoins country owned by prominent cotton growers Peter and Jane Harris and is suited to dryland cropping, sheep and cattle breeding and finishing.

Around 1144ha is arable with the grey, brown and red clays and red-brown earths sown to 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, together with 4000 tonnes of barley silage. 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 kill 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 expressions of interest process for Warrawing which closes on September 11.

Yards and cultivation on Warrawing

120 yrs of ownership to end with sale of SA’s Rundles

After 120 years of family ownership, Peter and Jill Rundle are selling their grazing property in the heart of South Australia’s Southern Mallee.

The 2039ha Rundles is located 14km south of Lameroo, with the original holding settled by the Rundle family back in 1905.

The couple was an early adopter of Dorper breeding in the district and today run a 2220 head commercial sheep operation and crop 400ha of triticale or feed grains.

However, the country also lends itself to cattle backgrounding on veldt grass.

Located in a productive sheep breeding and cropping district, Rundles also offered scope to further increase the arable area while maintaining an optimum flock, Elders agent Adam Chilcott said.

“The open, arable black soil flats are ideal for intensive cropping both cereals and grains and this is attracting inquiry from locals and outsiders who see it as good buying opportunity,” he said.

Water is supplied by two equipped bores and seven dams, supported by 355mm of average rainfall.

The Rundles have carried out extensive capital improvements to fencing, yards and water connectivity, with the infrastructure including a home, additional quarters, sheep yards and numerous sheds.

Rundles is being offered on a walk-in walk-out basis, via expressions of interest, as a whole or in contingent parts, closing on August 15.

The 2039ha Rundles is located 14km south of Lameroo, with the original holding settled by the Rundle family back in 1905.

Good interest in high rainfall NQ grazing asset

A sizeable grazing property close to Far North Queensland’s Atherton Tablelands will be auctioned next week by Vohland Real Estate.

The 7513ha Blunder Park Station is in a high rainfall area near Innot Hot Springs, 20 minutes south of Ravenshoe. The sale includes 800 head of mixed Brahman cross cattle.

Vohland Real Estate agent Chris Atkinson reports good interest from across Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, particularly from producers wanting to relocate.

The property is reasonably flat with deep dark tableland soils to algoma loams, with some rolling hills and gravel ridges.  Around 678ha has been cleared and are available for further development.

Blunder Park is watered by 35 dams, a 700ML water licence and a half span centre pivot.

Infrastructure includes a renovated four-bedroom home, a three-bedroom cottage, a four-bedroom self-contained staff quarters, numerous sheds and two grain silos with 180-tonnes of combined capacity.

Blunder Park Station will be auctioned on August 14.

Brahman cattle on Blunder Park

Around $5.8m for Walgett’s Springvale

After 20 years of ownership, John Pocknell is seeking around $5.8 million bare ($615/ha) for one of the largest freehold properties in the Walgett district area.

The 9422ha Springvale is located 50km north-west of Walgett and carrying a body of soft winter feed.

Around 3600ha of the red loam and black self-mulching soil country is watered by the big Warrambool River system which disperses across the eastern side of the property, creating numerous waterholes.

The remainder is red country growing a variety of saltbush, Queensland bluebush, buffel and Mitchell plus a variety of edible fodder, rosewood, mulga and wilga.

Springvale is currently running 180 mixed cattle, 1800 Dorper ewes and 2000 rangeland goats of which around 1000 to 1500 are annually trapped and sold.

Nutrien Russell Property & Livestock agent David Russell said the well located property is attracting good inquiry from Queensland producers seeking a cattle depot.

Springvale is watered by nine dams and an 11MG water licence, supported by 480mm of average annual rainfall.

Infrastructure includes a four-bedroom home, a four-stand woolshed, steel sheep and cattle yards and several goat handling yards.

The 9422ha Springvale is located 50km north-west of Walgett and carrying a body of soft winter feed.

New England’s Rockleigh Station lists for $14.9m

An exceptional grazing and fodder opportunity in the New England region of northern New South Wales has been listed for $14.9 million following an expressions of interest campaign.

The 1961ha Rockleigh Station is situated in the heart of the renowned Sapphire district, 27km from Inverell, and can support 15,000 Dry Sheep Equivalents or 1000 cows and calves.

In 2018, Rockleigh Station was purchased by the Cunnamulla-based Kahmoo Pastoral Co (owned by the Thomas and Reid families) for water and grass, after failing to secure local country to agist or lease.

Today it is home to an established Australian White sheep enterprise, currently managing 3814 stud and commercial sheep, alongside dedicated infrastructure to support lamb lot feeding operations.

Around 30 percent of the property is arable grazing, 40 percent open grazing and the 30 percent balance is timbered grazing land, with around 90ha of improved perennial pastures and 438ha of fodder crops.

Significant investment has been made in soil health and pasture productivity through extensive pasture improvement and fodder development programs.

In 2022, a large-scale aerial fertilisation and seed broadcasting initiative was undertaken across 639ha to further boost pasture performance and sustainability.

In addition to sheep, cattle and fodder production, the vendors have a conservation agreement with the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust. Two paddocks, with a combined area of 304ha, are set aside to protect native vegetation, enhance the habitat for local flora and fauna and support long term environmental resilience.

Water security is provided by three equipped bores, 31 dams, seasonal watercourses in the Mary Anne Creek and Horse Gully, and a 40ML water entitlement, supported by an average annual rainfall of 846mm.

Infrastructure includes two four-bedroom homes, guest accommodation, a two-stand shearing shed, steel sheep yards, cattle yards, numerous sheds, 245 tonnes of grain storage and 22km of exclusion fencing.

LAWD agents Simon Cudmore, George Barton and George Berry are handling the sale.

It is understood neighbouring properties could be open to selling, presenting an expansion opportunity for potential buyers.

In 2022, a large-scale aerial fertilisation and seed broadcasting initiative was undertaken across 639ha to further boost pasture performance and sustainability.

NSW breeding country offers carbon potential

A breeding property with biodiversity and carbon income potential on the South West Slopes of New South Wales has been listed for $7.35 million ($4115/ha or $1665/ac).

The 1786ha Trebane is located near Crowther, 47km from Young and 52km from Cowra.

Capable of running 6100 Dry Sheep Equivalents, the vendors are currently running a self-replacing merino flock and first-cross lamb enterprise on perennial native grass and clover pastures.

The picturesque undulating landscape comprises 755ha of open grazing country and 384ha that are arable.

LAWD selling agents Col Medway and Tim Corcoran said properties of this scale are uncommon for the district.

“Trebane offers grazing production upside from fertiliser application, fodder cropping and pasture sowing,” they said.

It is securely watered by 31 dams and the Washpan Creek.

Infrastructure includes a four-bedroom home, a three-stand shearing shed, sheep yards and numerous sheds. Extensive fencing upgrades and paddock subdivision have been recently completed.