ONE hundred years of Taylor family ownership has ended with the $23.75m sale of Borrona Downs in far western New South Wales after auction.

The sale heads this wrap of recently completed sales and listings across New South Wales.

 $23.75m for far west NSW’s Borrona Downs

 Western Division property heads to auction

 Price drop for Riverina’s Kilnyana

$23.75m for far west NSW’s Borrona Downs

Goats yarded at Borrona Station.

Nutrien Russell Property and Livestock agent David Russell said the Bollon family with farming country near Moree secured Borrona Downs to further their cattle business.

The sale price equates to $274/ha for the 86,563ha sheep and cattle station located 135km east of Tibooburra and 135km north of White Cliffs.

The station is estimated to carry 20,000DSE and harvest about 5000 rangeland goats a year. It has been running around 3000 cattle under the management of vendor Greg Taylor.

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.

Western Division property heads to auction

An extensively developed Western Division grazing property has been listed for sale by the Robson family after eight years of ownership.

The 5206ha Aitken is a Western Lands perpetual lease near Cumborah, 43km from Lightning Ridge and 90km from Walgett.

The country has a mix of herbages, red and yellow copper burr and Mitchell grass and succulents, providing a productive grazing base for both sheep and cattle.

Aitken is currently carrying around 3750 Dohne ewes, with any remaining livestock on the property to be offered to the successful purchaser if not sold prior.

Elders agent Baden Chaffey reports good interest from local and interstate producers, particularly from Queensland because it offers good value for money.

He said the vendors have undertaken significant investment in fencing, water and livestock-handling infrastructure, including more than 100km of new fencing.

The property offers room to further develop and enhance production by cropping more than 400ha.

An extensive water system has been developed across Aitken, incorporating storage tanks and 40 new livestock troughs.

Water security is supported by a dam and connection to the Bangate Bore No. 2 cap-and-pipe scheme.

Infrastructure includes a three-bedroom cottage, shearers’ quarters, steel cattle yards, a five-stand shearing shed, portable sheep yards, eight containment feeding pens with troughs, sheds and 250-tonnes of grain storage. Aitken will be auctioned on October 1.

Price drop for Riverina’s Kilnyana

The asking price for the Southern Riverina property Kilnyana has been reduced to $33 million ($7625/ha or $3085/ac) after seven weeks on the market.

This update reflects a $5m drop from the Hermiston family’s July asking price of $38m, which had already been scaled back from initial expectations of over $40m a year ago.

When factoring in a conservative $1m valuation for the property’s structural improvements, the revised bare price for the fenced and watered asset sits at $7394/ha ($2,994/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.

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

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.

Located in a 470mm average annual rainfall region, Kilnyana is supplied by the Mulwala Canal via the MIL pipeline system, as well as 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.