THIS week’s property review includes this wrap-up of interesting recent listings across New South Wales and Victoria, and separate articles on listings in Queensland and a wrap-up of recently completed sales.
- Purlewaugh’s Mia Mia listed as a whole or separately
- Central Victorian aggregation heads to auction
- Outback NSW station tipped to raise around $10m
- Goodooga’s Dunvegan offers versatility
- Picturesque & productive grazing near Gloucester
Cattle on The Bucketts Way near Gloucester. On average, the property annually turns off around 1000 steers with 92pc the land pasture improved for grazing and harvesting of silage, haylage and hay. See references below
Purlewaugh’s Mia Mia listed as whole or separately
Sydney businessman David Reid is offering his grazing and farming enterprise, labelled as one of the finest in the renowned NSW Purlewaugh Valley, as a whole or as three separate holdings.
The 3372ha Mia Mia Aggregation is 25km east of Coonabarabran and sits on the divide between the Central West and North West Slopes regions.
It comprises three properties – the adjoining 1249ha Mia Mia and 1141ha Elouera and the nearby 982ha Merrybah.
Mr Reid runs the aggregation as a mixed enterprise, cropping an area of 1012ha and running 900 cows and calves.
As a grazing-only enterprise and with ongoing pasture development, numbers could be lifted to between 1200 and 1300 cows and calves.
Running from flat to gently sloping and undulating kurrajong country, the Mia Mia Aggregation has 2070 arable hectares with the ability to produce winter cereals and or summer crops, plus a large amount of fodder.
The productive mix of mostly black and chocolate heavy self-mulching basalt soils and quick responding red and sandy loams are currently planted to 700ha of wheat (Mia Mia and Elouera).
- Mia Mia – 500ha of basalt soils growing summer and winter crops. Infrastructure includes a renovated three-bedroom home, cattle yards, numerous sheds and 200 tonnes of grain storage.
- Elouera – 770ha of basalt soils growing summer and winter crops. Infrastructure includes a four-bedroom home, cattle yards and 205t of grain storage.
- Merrybah – 800ha of basalt soils and red and sandy loams growing summer and winter crops. Infrastructure includes two sheds, cattle yards and 100t of grain storage.
Receiving an average 700mm of rain a year, the aggregation is watered by three bores, the Baby Creek and numerous dams.
Infrastructure includes two renovated homes, a workman’s cottage, three cattle yards, numerous sheds and nine grain silos with 640-tonnes of capacity. New fencing, laneways and swinging gates have also been installed.
Elders agents Ian McArthur and Richard Gemmell are handling the offers to purchase campaign.
Central Victorian aggregation heads to auction
After 46 years of ownership, the Ford family will auction its versatile grazing property in Central Victoria as a whole or as separate holdings.
The 1347ha Lisoux, Denning Rise and Hillside are located 5km from Baringhup, 9km from Maldon and 37km from Bendigo.
They comprise:
- The 685ha Lisoux is subdivided into 18 paddocks and watered by the Loddon River and 23 dams. Infrastructure includes a three-bedroom home, a seven-stand shearing shed, steel sheep yards and numerous sheds.
- The 350ha Denning Rise is subdivided into 16 paddocks and watered by 21 dams and pipe water (accessed via an adjacent mine). Infrastructure includes a three-bedroom home and a three-stand shearing shed.
- The 311ha Hillside is subdivide into nine paddocks and watered by 15 dams.
The country features gently undulating granite soils with good stands of native timber shelter belts capable of running between 5000 to 6000DSE (season dependent).
Nutrien Harcourts agent Alister Kemp said the three holdings are presenting in good condition after recent rain.
“Their versatility is likely to attract a range of buyers seeking livestock grazing and fattening, wool growing, hay production and cropping.”
“They could interest a developer because the properties have good road frontages and several crown allotments running through them,” Mr Kemp said.
The Lisoux, Denning Rise and Hillside aggregation is watered by dams, the Six Mile Creek and the Loddon River and will be auctioned on October 9.
Outback NSW station tipped to raise around $10m
After 99 years of Clarke family ownership, Tas and Penne Clarke have listed Kayrunnera Station in outback New South Wales with hopes of raising around $10 million.
The 48,699ha, 64km west of White Cliffs and 211km north-east of Broken Hill, are attracting good inquiry from mostly South Australian producers seeking to expand their existing operations.
Nutrien Russell Property and Livestock agent David Russell has been appointed to sell Kayrunnera on a walk-in walk-out basis that includes an extensive list of plant and machinery, as well as 6500 sheep and lambs.
“The vendors have carried out cautious grazing management and care for this land over many years, with outstanding structural improvements making this pastoral property a true turnkey operation.”
“This includes water ponding and spreading which has increased the property’s carrying capacity,” he said.
The red loam clay to under stone open grazing country is growing saltbush, bluebush, some black oak, scattered mulga, gidgee and rosewood, with buffel in the creek lines.
Rated to carry 8000DSE, Kayrunnera is currently running 4000 ewes and 2500 lambs and each year, the vendor traps and sells around 2000 goats.
The Kayrunnera and Turkey Creeks disperse through property, along with numerous tributaries and seasonal waterholes. This is supported by 16 dams and 253mm of average annual rainfall.
Infrastructure includes a four-bedroom home, a two-bedroom worker’s quarters, numerous sheds, a five-stand shearing shed, steel sheep yards and goat handling yards. Over the past ten years, 100km of new fencing has been installed.
Expressions of interest for Kayrunnera Station close on October 17.
Yards on Kayrunnera Station
Goodooga’s Dunvegan offers versatility
In the Western Division of northern New South Wales, the O’Connor family has listed its versatile grazing and cropping opportunity after 40 years of ownership.
The 6438ha Dunvegan is 20km from Goodooga and suited to a range of enterprises including cropping, sheep and cattle, or as a mixed operation.
Around 400ha of the fertile heavy black self-mulching soils are currently sown to wheat, however there is potential to expand the cropping program or conversely, intensify the grazing.
CPS Thomas Ballhausen and Irvine agent Bryce Thomas said Dunvegan was ideal for farming families, investors or operators seeking expansion, with a light stocking history resulting in an exceptional body of feed.
The property is watered by a bore and double frontage to the Birrie River.
Infrastructure includes a three-bedroom home, numerous sheds, a three-stand shearing shed complex with modern shearers’ quarters, steel cattle yards and 16km of exclusion fencing.
Dunvegan will be auctioned on October 24.
Picturesque & productive grazing near Gloucester
There has been widespread interest in a picturesque and productive grazing block on the mid north coast hinterland of New South Wales.
The 351ha block is situated at 455 The Bucketts Way on the outskirts of Gloucester and three hours from Sydney.
On average, the property annually turns off around 1000 steers with more than 92 percent of the land pasture improved for grazing and harvesting of silage, haylage and hay.
Troy Richards from TGR Agronomy Services said since 2018, the pasture systems have progressed from native grasses and background unpalatable weeds to what they are today.
“The property is a credit to the owner’s vision to produce perfectly weighted Angus steers to feedlot entry using a pasture system that delivers year in and year out without fail.”
Rural Property NSW agent Michael Guest said the vendors, trading as Barrington Ag, have used their lifelong agricultural experience to meticulously plan and develop a beef cattle property that showcases ease of management and lifestyle.
“This is a reluctant, but timely, sale of an outstanding property that has it all – location, climate and production, all set in astounding natural beauty.”
The property is situated in a soft, temperate climate with an average annual rainfall of 993mm. It is watered by a 2km frontage to the Gloucester River, 30 dams and two water licences totalling 82ML.
Infrastructure includes a four-bedroom home, guest accommodation, cattle yards, a shed and new fencing with a laneway system for ease of management.
455 The Bucketts Way will be auctioned on October 21.