NEW SOUTH Wales farmers Mark and Sally Carter have listed their agricultural powerhouse on the Macquarie River in the central west after 14 years of ownership.

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 EOI for Blackall’s Woodbine closes June 5

 CW Qld’s Lara offers grazing & tourism

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The 596ha Strathmore is located 25km from Geurie and 37km from Dubbo and is suited to a mix of irrigation, dryland cropping and livestock production.

The property is situated in a 635mm rainfall region with 5km of Macquarie River frontage, four centre pivots irrigate 179ha, and 416ha are used for dryland cropping.

The Carters grow dual purpose winter cereal crops and sweet corn in the summer, as well as trade cattle and sheep depending on the season.

Elders agent Richard Gemmell said Strathmore’s versatility gives the vendors the ability to adapt and pivot with the market and the seasons.

“The turnkey enterprise is regarded as one of the district’s most productive and well-developed properties, offering flexible year-round income streams.

“It is attracting early interest from producers with western country who want a fodder factory to finish livestock given its water security, locals seeking expansion and those looking at intensive crop production,” Mr Gemmell said.

Infrastructure includes a five-bedroom home, a three-bedroom cottage, a recreation riverside hut, numerous sheds, a two-stand shearing shed, steel sheep and cattle yards and six silos with more than 300-tonnes of grain capacity.

Expressions of interest for Strathmore close on June 18, with offers for the 582ML groundwater licence to be considered separately.

EOI for Blackall’s Woodbine closes June 5

The Phelps family has listed its turnkey backgrounding opportunity in central western Queensland.

The 4703ha Woodbine is located in the Blackall-Tambo region, 15km north of Blackall and 82km south of Barcaldine, in a 526mm average annual rainfall area.

It is understood the Phelps family is selling the property, which it purchased in in 2019, after securing two properties offered as part of the Ray Scott portfolio.

LAWD agent Grant Veivers said there has been interest from locals, central Queensland and northern producers seeking a well-located depot.

The country on Woodbine is mostly shaded downs with bauhinia, gidgee and vine tree, with open alluvial plains associated with the Douglas Ponds and Skelton Creeks, as well as ashy downs.

The productive mix of pastures, grass species and land types support a variety of stocking rates to suit different paddocks across the property.

The red and deep clay loams and alluvial soils along traversing creeks and watercourses support dense stands of buffel grass and areas of Mitchell, Flinders and Queensland blue grasses, plus a variety of seasonal herbages.

Woodbine owns a one-third share in a capped artesian bore situated on the property, supported by a dam and numerous seasonal waterholes in the Douglas Ponds and Skeleton Creeks.

Infrastructure includes a three-bedroom home, a five-stand shearing shed, shearing quarters, sheep and cattle yards and a shed.

Woodbine is being offered for sale by expressions of interest closing on June 5.

CW Qld’s Lara offers grazing and tourism

After five years of ownership, Jodie Muntelwit is selling her grazing and tourism business in Queensland’s central west.

The 5386ha (freehold) property Lara is located 30km from Barcaldine and 80km from Blackall and has the benefit of a 722ha (leasehold) permit to occupy.

It is one of the first properties in the district to list since the neighbouring The Patrick changed hands five years ago, and should attract family operators and locals wanting backgrounding and breeding country.

Lara has areas of soft open Mitchell and Flinders grass downs, as well as several small swamps, with the balance sweet pebbly gidgee, leopardwood and sandalwood country.

The property is located in a 499mm average rainfall region and has received just over 200mm.

Nutrien Harcourt GDL agent Andrew McCallum and Brodie Agencies agent Tom Brodie report even though the season has been light, the pasture is in excellent condition due to the vendors’ rotational grazing management.

The Alice and The Patrick Creeks junction in the River paddock. A recent, small flood along this river course has resulted in a good stand of buffel grass and native pastures.

Lara is watered by a flowing artesian bore, seasonal waterholes along the creeks, as well as a dam that was desilted in 2024.

Infrastructure includes a four-bedroom home, a staff cottage, numerous sheds, and yards. Around 31.5km of exclusion boundary fencing have been recently erected.

Additionally, passive income is sourced from the Lara Wetlands and Bush Camp that is situated 800m from the Lara homestead complex.

The campground and its walking tracks accommodate thousands of campers a year, with 5000 in the 2024 season.

Management is in place to continue the low maintenance, minimal up-keep tourism operation, with all the plant and equipment used to run the campground included in the sale.

Lara will be offered bare of livestock, with some plant and equipment.

Expressions of interest close on June 12.