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.

• Blue ribbon NQ grazing asset
• Exceptional water on Cunnamulla’s Victo
• Turner family sells CQ’s Pine Creek Station
• Investor interest in Tasmania’s Blackwood
• High rainfall NQ grazing asset lists for $15m
• $14.3m for CW Qld’s Bellevue

Cattle on Twelve Mile, southwest of Greenvale

Blue ribbon NQ grazing asset

Tim and Megan Atkinson are selling one of North Queensland’s leading EU accredited breeding, backgrounding and finishing properties after more than 30 years of family ownership.

The 44,000ha Twelve Mile Station, pictured above, is located in the basalt country, 130km south of Greenvale and 260km north-west of Charters Towers.

It was once the bullock paddock for the original Wando Vale Station which was split into four or five separate holdings.

Queensland Rural agent Troy Trevor said Twelve Mile is a high performing beef enterprise in a tightly held and sought after region that can be operated independently or as a complementary backgrounding and finishing facility.

“Renowned for its consistent output and strong reputation for delivering premium beef to both domestic and international markets, the property is especially noted for its heavy bullock turnoff, weight-for-age feeders and quality breeder herd,” he said.

Twelve Mile can run 12,000AE and will be sold with 1950 mixed age quality EU accredited breeders comprising 700 PTIC cows and 1250 weaner mothers. Also included will be 200 EU accredited No.5 heifers and 65 bulls.

The country comprises 34,320ha of fertile black, brown and red basalt soil plains rising into gently undulating ridges, 8360ha of granite soils rising into undulating ridges and a small portion of useable hills and 1320ha of fertile river and creek frontages.

Boasting extensive frontage to the Clarke River, Twelve Mile is also watered by permanent springs in the Broken Rivers and Yates Creek, supported by 35 bores and four dams.

Infrastructure includes a four-bedroom home, a one-bedroom staff cottage, a six-bedroom staff donga and two cattle yards.

Twelve Mile is offered for sale on a walk-in walk-out basis.

Exceptional water on Cunnamulla’s Victo

Cunnamulla’s renowned Victo Station in south-west Queensland has been listed for sale offering versatility and exceptional water.

The 39,038ha holding is fully exclusion fenced and located 50km north of Cunnamulla and 150km south of Charleville.

It is being sold due to a change of direction by the Sanderson family who, during their five and half years of ownership, carved off 13,300ha which were sold to a neighbour.

The mix of country lends itself to a variety of livestock operations – breeding or backgrounding cattle, wool or fat lamb production, broad scale goat production or a mix of these. The property was once home to one of Queensland’s most prominent Merino stud flocks.

More than 50 percent of Victo is self-cracking clay soils growing an abundance of Mitchell grass, buffel and sweet herbages across open plains, broken gidgee creek systems and sandhills.

Around 45 percent is soft mulga country with red loam soils interspersed with box flats and growing a mix of natural grasses, some spinifex and herbages in season.

Most of the fencing has been upgraded in the past ten years.

Victo is watered by six capped (Great Artesian) flowing bores which supply a system of poly pipe, tanks and paddock troughs. There are 91 watering points across the property, as well as numerous dams.

Improvements include a five-bedroom home, an eight-stand shearing shed, steel sheep, goat and cattle yards and numerous sheds. Murrumbah has a four-bedroom home, a four-stand shearing shed and steel cattle yards.

Victo will be auctioned on October 2.

Yards on Victo, near Cunnamulla

Turner family sells CQ’s Pine Creek Station

Backgrounding and finishing country in the heart of Central Queensland’s renowned cattle country is being offered for sale by the Turner family after more than 30 years of ownership.

The 6233ha Pine Creek Station is 26km north-east of Rubyvale and 40km south-west of Capella.

Ray White Rural agent Richard Brosnan said the property was well located for producers trucking cattle from north to south and west to east.

“Emerald saleyards are 80km from Pine Creek Station and within a 400km radius of export abattoirs at Mackay, Rockhampton and Biloela.”

Most of the country is productive brigalow scrub with some mixed forest, rising to ranges in the south.

Coming out of winter well with a good body of feed, the well-developed pastures are growing buffel, some seca, red Natal, white kangaroo and native grasses capable of finishing 1250 steers a year.

Pine Creek has frontage to the Crystal Creek and is watered by an equipped bore and four dams (three are equipped), in a 550-600mm average annual rainfall region.

Infrastructure includes a four-bedroom home, cattle and horse yards and numerous sheds.

Expressions of interest for Pine Creek Station, which is being sold on a bare basis, close on September 25.

Investor interest in Tasmania’s Blackwood

The Fowler family is auctioning its breeding country in Tasmania’s Central Highlands after 15 years of ownership.

The 1007ha Blackwood is located 9km east of Ouse and 20km west of Bothwell.

Nutrien Harcourts agent Andrew Fisher said good interest was coming from locals and investors for potential expansion.

“Blackwood has good stands of quality feed heading into spring and could be used to grow feed over the spring and summer months and also as a winter run-off block,” he said.

Across the property, there is 340ha sown to improved grass and clover species, 285ha of native country providing shelter and roughage and 260ha of native grasslands capable of being sown to improved species for further carrying capacity gains.

It is currently running 2750 scanned-in lamb composite ewes (any dry ewes have recently been moved) and 100 cows.

In addition to running livestock, Blackwood has 120ha of rich dryland cropping soils and is currently growing 20ha of barley, 15ha of poppies and 17ha of lucerne.

Blackwood has been identified as a site of significance for wind power generation, with a proposal to erect nine turbines once the relevant statutes have been met and permits approved.

Blackwood has an expression of interest lodged for 400ML in the proposed Lake Echo irrigation scheme that is currently in a due diligence phase.

Watered by a dam, the infrastructure includes a three-bedroom home with expansive views of the Upper Derwent Valley, a four-stand shearing shed, sheep and cattle yards and numerous sheds.

The expressions of interest process closes on September 26.

Blackwood is currently running 2750 scanned-in lamb composite ewes and 100 cows.

High rainfall NQ grazing asset lists for $15m

A high rainfall grazing asset close to North Queensland’s Atherton Tablelands has listed for $15 million after failing to sell at auction.

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

The property is reasonably flat with deep dark tableland soils to algoma loams, with some rolling hills and gravel ridges. Around 678ha have been cleared and is 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.

Vohland Real Estate agent Chris Atkinson is handling the sale.

The 7513ha Blunder Park Station is in an area near Innot Hot Springs, 20 minutes south of Ravenshoe.

$14.3m for CW Qld’s Bellevue

Central western Queensland breeding and backgrounding country has passed in at auction and is now listed with Nutrien Harcourts GDL for $14.3 million ($496/ha).

The 28,836ha Bellevue, suited to cattle, sheep or goats, is located near Yaraka, 97km from Isisford and 160km south-west of Blackall.

It was offered to the market by the Penfold family who are consolidating their assets. Bellevue is around nine hours from the Penfold’s other properties – Old Bombine and Mamaree near Meandarra and Woodlawn near Talwood – where they breed, raise and trade cattle.

Agent Andrew McCallum said Bellevue was regarded as one of the best properties in the district.

“Renowned for its good balance of country, Bellevue is a low-cost, low-stress operation featuring sweet pebbly country with chocolate soils. Benefitting from a good season, it is growing a smorgasbord of browse capable of running up to 1200 cows and calves or up to 1500 backgrounders.

Mr McCallum said interested parties can purchase Bellevue on a bare basis at $14.3m and can also purchase around 700 breeders.

Grasses include Mitchell, buffel, button, gidgee, pigweed and lambs tongue, as well as seasonal herbages and salines.

The property is watered by 21 dams, a bore, creeks and channels in seasons.

Infrastructure includes an eight-bedroom quarters, a shearing shed, numerous sheds and three cattle yards. More than 6000ha is behind an exclusion fence, with a percentage of fencing renewed over the last seven years.

Cattle on Bellevue