PROPERTIES in Tasmania, Victoria and Queensland with grazing development potential are among the holdings listed for sale this week.

 Exceptional water on Cunnamulla’s Victo

 Investor interest in Tasmania’s Blackwood

 $14.3m for CW Qld’s Bellevue

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 property’s 39,038ha are fully exclusion fenced and are 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.

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 gidyea, 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 10 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 on Victo 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.

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 is 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.”

Across the property, there are 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 — dry ewes have recently been moved off the property — 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 sight 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.

$14.3m for central west Queensland’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 159km 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 is 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, gidyea burr, 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 are behind an exclusion fence, with a percentage of fencing renewed over the last seven years.