THIS week’s property review includes this wrap-up of interesting recent listings across Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland offering grazing scale and carbon income.

 $22-$25m for expansive NSW sheep and cattle station

 Southern Riverina’s Kilnyana relists for $38m

 Victoria’s Spring Grove Aggregation relists

 $5.2m for well-located breeding country

 Yarronvale auction postponed

$22-$25m for expansive sheep and cattle station

Borrona Station harvests up to 5000 goats annually.

After 100 years in the Taylor family, Borrona Downs Station in far western New South Wales has been listed for $22-$25 million, as it enjoys an excellent season.

The 86,563ha sheep and cattle station is 135km east of Tibooburra and 135km north of White Cliffs.

Nutrien Russell Property and Livestock agent David Russell said Borrona Downs is a highly regarded holding, crediting vendor Greg Taylor for his workmanship and conservative management.

“He runs the property according to seasonal conditions,” Mr Russell said.

Borrona Downs is currently running around 3000 cattle, but has an estimated carrying capacity of 20,000DSE and harvests 5000 rangeland goats a year.

The country ranges from open plains to expansive perennial lakes and is carrying soft sweet Mitchell, Flinders and buffel grasses, together with natural clovers, herbages and scattered stands of soft mulga, rosewood, whitewood and beefwood.

Some of the oldest and largest coolabah trees in western New South Wales border the property’s grey soil wetlands.

Water security is a feature, with nine equipped bores, two capped flowing bores, 16 seasonal dams and an extensive network of tanks and troughs. The Mulga and Bloodwood Creek systems also provide some waterholes.

Improvements include a one-bedroom cottage, staff quarters, a meat house/cool room, a six-stand shearing shed, steel sheep and cattle yards and numerous sheds.

The station is divided by steel fencing into 14 grazing paddocks, two goat paddocks and several smaller enclosures.

Borrona Downs Station will be auctioned online on August 28.

Southern Riverina’s Kilnyana relists for $38m

The Hermiston family’s picturesque Southern Riverina grazing and farming asset, Kilnyana, has returned to the market with a reduced price guide of $38 million, equating to $8780/ha or $3555/ac.

The 4328ha property is located near Savernake, 25km south-east of Berrigan, 30km north of Mulwala and 45km east of Tocumwal, placing it close to grain receival sites, abattoirs and saleyards.

It is only the second time in 150 years that Kilnyana has been offered for sale.

It is being offered by Hermiston AG Enterprises, a family-owned business established in 1986 that farms a further 9500ha across four properties, including Lake Piccaninny and Quiamong near Conargo and Lyndhurst near Brocklesby.

Vendor Jim Hermiston expressed pride in his family’s achievements at Kilnyana since acquiring the historic property in its first ever sale in 2008.

“Kilnyana was already highly developed when we purchased it, and it has been a privilege to build on that legacy,” he said.

LAWD agents Col Medway and Patrick Kerr have been appointed to manage the latest sales campaign.

They said Kilnyana is already drawing good interest from local and corporate buyers.

“Buyers who appreciate the ability to pivot between sheep, cattle and cropping systems to capture market changes will be drawn to Kilnyana which has a long history of true mixed farming capability.”

Kilnyana is regarded as a premier mixed farming enterprise, supporting dryland cropping, prime lamb, wool and beef production.

Around 2800ha of mostly red and grey clay loam soils have been developed for dryland cropping. The 2026 program comprises 1124ha of canola, 1095ha of barley, 521ha of wheat and 60ha of vetch.

The balance includes 1004ha of native pastures, which are arable and could be developed for cropping, along with 352ha of improved pastures (lucerne) and 172ha of timbered grazing country.

Historically, the breeding and finishing enterprise has run between 2000 and 2500 ewes for meat and wool production, alongside opportunistic lamb trading and beef agistment.

Kilnyana is located in a 470mm average annual rainfall region. Water is also supplied by the Mulwala Canal via the MIL pipeline system, and there are 27 dams.

Infrastructure includes a historic circa-1926 eight-bedroom homestead, two staff residences, shearers’ quarters, an eight-stand shearing shed, two sheep yards, cattle yards, numerous sheds and 675 tonnes of grain storage.

Mr Hermiston said he was proud of what his family has achieved on Kilnyana since purchasing the property in 2008, which was the first time the historic holding had been sold.

“Kilnyana was well improved when we bought it, so it’s been nice to continue that legacy, and it’s a very well-balanced property,” he said.

“The diversity of soil types, annual rainfall and improvements are suited to stock or cropping, with the scale to leverage into one large farming enterprise or diversify.”

Victoria’s Spring Grove Aggregation relists

Central Victoria’s Spring Grove Aggregation has returned to the market with a price guide of $9400/ha ($3800/ac) to $9900/ha ($4000/ac).

The 1935ha farming and grazing enterprise is located near Yarrawalla, about 80km north of Bendigo.

After more than 140 years and five generations of ownership, the Smith family is offering the aggregation for sale through Elders agents Oliver Boyd and Nick Myer.

The aggregation is supported by a long-term fertiliser program and agronomic management, and typically produces winter crops and fodder. Current rotations include canola, wheat, barley, oats, lupins and vetch.

Indicative performance shows dryland grain yields of more than 3t/ha and dryland canola yields of about 2t/ha. Across the 778ha of irrigated country, grain yields reach around 6t/ha and canola about 3t/ha.

The property has historically run about 2000 ewes and lambs, with numbers increased under current management.

Water is supplied through an extensive network of dams, troughs and tanks, supported by average annual rainfall of 375mm.

The five holdings, available either as a whole or separately, comprise:

• 471ha Spring Grove is divided into six main paddocks, with water supplied by six dams. Infrastructure includes a three-bedroom home, a three-stand shearing shed, two sheep yards, numerous sheds and 670 tonnes of grain storage.
• 248ha Bungawitta has four paddocks and is watered by two dams. Infrastructure includes a four-bedroom home, steel cattle yards and a shed.
• 388ha Chynes comprises six main paddocks, separate irrigated and dryland pastures, and a plantation of WA Yate and gum trees. Water is supplied by the Waranga Channel backbone irrigation system, with 30ha under laser irrigation. Infrastructure includes steel sheep yards.
• 615ha Simons/Miles/Holts has six paddocks and is serviced by six dams with channel-fill security. About 506ha is under laser irrigation.
• 182ha Kidmans includes two paddocks, fertile soils and Serpentine Creek frontage. The property is suited to canola, wheat, barley, oats, vetch and lucerne, with a layout that supports both cropping and livestock rotations.

$5.2m for well-located breeding country

A productive Southern Downs holding within an easy drive of Brisbane and the Gold Coast has been listed by for $5.2 million by Trevor Robertson.

The 3882ha Brooklyn Macintyre Aggregation is 10km south of the Gore Roadhouse and 72km west of Warwick and 114km south of Toowoomba.

It comprises the 1178ha Brooklyn, the 2071ha Macintyre plus 633ha of leasehold land.

The adjacent holdings have bitumen road frontage, and are suitable for breeding sheep or fat lambs, wool growing, as well as goat and cattle breeding or backgrounding.

The aggregation has soft traprock soils, with areas of terra rossa-like types, with well sheltered hills running to creek flats on the Macintyre Brook and Branch Creek.

Pastures consist of Queensland blue grass and other native species, with some introduced pasture species, digit and legumes.

The Brooklyn block has 2.5km of Macintyre Brook frontage, 11 dams and a bore, while Macintyre has 2km frontage to the Branch Creek, 13 dams and a new solar equipped bore.

Infrastructure includes a five-bedroom home, a renovated one-bedroom cottage, a shed, steel cattle yards, exclusion fencing, a three-stand shearing shed and sheep yards.

Nutrien Harcourts GDL agent David Benham is handling the sale.

Yarronvale auction postponed

Schute Bell Badgery Lumby has postponed the auction Yarronvale, a south-west Queensland grazing property generating carbon income.

The 32,140ha property is in the Cooladdi district, 120km west of Charleville and was once a stop on the historic Paroo River stock and droving routes. The property has been destocked for four years and is growing abundant feed and mulga reserves.

Yarronvale is being offered for sale by Ray Taylor from Emerald after 28 years of ownership. In the past, Mr Taylor said he has run 6000 sheep and 400 cattle.

“The land has been regenerating resulting in feed above your head, while generating a supplementary carbon income, which has another four years to run.”

The property has red loam, basalt outcrops and grey river and creek soils timbered with mulga, box, sandalwood, gidgee, coolabah and wattle.

Yarronvale has 13km of Paroo River frontage with reliable waterholes, a flowing artesian bore and 13 dams, supported by 498mm of average annual rainfall.

Infrastructure includes a five-bedroom home, a six-stand shearing shed, two sheep yards, three cattle yards and numerous sheds.

Yarronvale will be auctioned on September 9 by agent Jason Hartin.