THIS week’s property review includes this wrap-up of interesting recent listings across southern and northern New South Wales.

• Riverina producers offloading top tier Berryjerry Station
• $20m tipped for David Newby’s livestock platform
• Barham asset surrounded by three rivers
• Top of the range aggregation offered by well-known consultants
• Chinese company lists Liverpool Plains country
• Swain family puts $9.5m on Carinda’s Warrawing

The 2170ha Berryjerry is used for dryland and irrigated cropping, backgrounding and finishing livestock, as well as an established timber harvesting business.

Riverina producers offload top tier Berryjerry Station

After nine years of ownership, Riverina producers, the Bruckner family’s Gnadbro Pastoral Co is selling its top-tier mixed grazing and farming enterprise in southern New South Wales.

Berryjerry Station is situated 33km west of Wagga Wagga in the tightly held Collingullie district of the Eastern Riverina and is being sold as part of the company’s succession planning.

The 2170ha holding is used for dryland and irrigated cropping, backgrounding and finishing livestock, as well as an established timber harvesting business.

The offers to purchase campaign is being handled by Colliers Agribusiness agents Adrienne Harvey, Rawdon Briggs and Gabi Mewburn.

Ms Harvey believes Berryjerry will appeal to both family farming groups and institutional investors.

“Its proximity to Wagga Wagga and major transport routes adds a layer of strategic value that complements its productivity,” she said.

“From cropping and livestock to timber production, Berryjerry offers multiple income streams and is ready to support a new owner from day one.”

Around 84 percent of the fertile sandy clay loam country is arable with the 2025 dryland cropping program growing 230ha of canola, 220ha of wheat and 120ha of barley. On average, grazing wheat achieves 2.8t/ha and 3.7t/ha for spring wheat.

Cropping operations are complemented by three centre pivot irrigators currently supporting 100ha of wheat and 40ha of barley, with potential for further development.

These systems are enabled by 1406ML of river and ground water entitlements, supported by 492mm of average annual rainfall and frontages to the Murrumbidgee River, the Old Man and Dog Fall Creeks.

Berryjerry runs 4000 ewes and 4800 lambs and is being grazed at 15 Dry Sheep Equivalents and between 25DSE/ha to 30DSE/ha on the grazing crops. The station plays a central role in Gnadbro’s broader enterprise, finishing on average 5000 weaners annually from 10,000 lambs bred across the company’s other holdings. Wethers are sold over the hooks, while ewe lambs are sold at anon-farm sale, which averaged $300 per head at the company’s September sale.

In addition to its cropping and livestock programs, Berryjerry generates income through AFS-certified timber, averaging 4000 tonnes annually.

Infrastructure includes a seven-bedroom home, a six-stand shearing shed, multiple steel sheep and cattle yards, numerous sheds and grain silos.

$20m tipped for David Newby’s beef platform

A beef production platform in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales is expected to raise around $20 million for retiring former Mars executive David Newby.

The 1327ha North Raeburn Aggregation comprises two holdings – North Raeburn and Wyaroo – and is located 30km from Goulburn, 70km from Yass and 80km from Canberra.

The aggregation is suited to beef, wool or prime lamb production and or fodder/dual purpose cropping. It is being offered for the second time since settlement after 15 years of ownership by Mr Newby, who is based at the heritage-listed Oldbury Farm in the Southern Highlands.

Inglis Rural Property said North Raeburn is largely destocked, but has been running 800 Angus breeders and followers grown to feedlot entry weight (400+kg), representing a carrying capacity of 16,000DSE.

Agent Liam Griffiths said the property is expected to attract wide-ranging interest from locals, across the state and further afield.

Around 80-90 percent of the brown decomposed granite loam soils and rich alluvial loams are arable. There are gently undulating hills and productive flats, with native trees retained for livestock shelter.

Water is sourced from an equipped bore, 45 dams and a ponding creek that flows through the aggregation.

Infrastructure includes a renovated architect designed three-bedroom home, a one-bedroom self-contained studio, three cattle yards, a three-stand shearing shed, numerous sheds and two silos.

The North Raeburn Aggregation is being offered for sale via expressions of interest closing on November 14.

Barham asset surrounded by three rivers

A southern Riverina grazing and cropping opportunity surrounded by three rivers has been listed for $6 million after eight years of ownership.

The 2038ha Bookit Island Station is located 11km north-east of Barham and 65km west of Deniliquin.

It offers 518ha of highly developed laser-levelled flood irrigation growing winter crops including cereals, rice and fodder, with the 1500ha balance currently running 550 cows.

LAWD agent Patrick Kerr said the property has attracted good local interest, as well as from interstate producers seeking additional grazing land, irrigation and dual enterprise opportunities.

“It is a significant holding for the area and is appealing because it offers value for money. Also, cattle numbers could be lifted with further development,” he said.

Bookit Island boasts extensive frontages to the Wakool River (12.4km), Bookit Creek (5.8km) and Merribit Creek (8km).

It also has access to the Murray Irrigation Limited channel and is offered with 1400ML of delivery entitlements from the Wakool River.

Infrastructure includes a renovated four-bedroom home on the banks of the Wakool River, a four-bedroom manager’s residence, cattle yards, a five-stand shearing shed, sheep yards, grain storage and numerous sheds.

The 2038ha Bookit Island Station is located 11km north-east of Barham and 65km west of Deniliquin.

Top of the range aggregation offered by well-known consultants

The 1358ha Brucelyn and Mt Emby Aggregation is located in the highly regarded Ben Lomond district

Feedlot veterinary and nutrition consultants Matt and Melissa George from Bovine Dynamics are auctioning their top of the range, high rainfall New England holding after purchasing adjoining country in the Brisbane Valley.

The 1358ha Brucelyn and Mt Emby Aggregation is located in the highly regarded Ben Lomond district and comprises the 956ha Brucelyn and the 402ha Mt Emby, divided by the Moredun Road.

Matt George

Ray White Rural agent Andrew Starr was unable to offer a price guide; however, the couple purchased Brucelyn in 2021 for $14.35 million and Mt Emby in 2022 for $7.9 million.

While the aggregation has standalone scale, Mr Starr said the holding has attracted good interest from Queensland producers seeking a high rainfall, weight gain block.

Mr Starr said the basalt soils and established perennial pastures support exceptional grazing productivity.

“Rising above 1400m on the Great Dividing Range, the aggregation benefits from a cool temperate climate with an average annual rainfall of 950mm to 1000mm.”

The Brucelyn and Mt Emby Aggregation is watered by a bore, Moredun Creek frontage, spring-fed gullies and dams.

During their ownership, the couple has installed around 18km of new fencing and completed a reticulation system and trough network.

Infrastructure includes two renovated, four-bedroom homes, two cattle yards, a shearing shed, sheep and cattle yards and numerous sheds.

Brucelyn and Mt Emby will be auctioned on November 7.

Chinese company lists Liverpool Plains country

Chinese development company Aohai Australia has relisted one of its prime Liverpool Plains cropping and grazing holdings in northern New South Wales.

In September last year, the company offered 13,000ha to the market spanning two properties – the 5351ha McEvers Park, which it has now decided to retain, and the 7737ha Butheroo.

After selling 755ha to a neighbour, the 6982ha Butheroo has returned to the market via expressions of interest.

Butheroo is situated near Neilrex, 23km from Coolah and 89km from Dubbo. Around 3600ha is used for beef and sheep production, 1100ha is arable, and the balance is remnant vegetation.

The productive soil types and gently undulating topography is underpinned by 643mm of average annual rainfall.

There is 50km of new fencing with partial boundary exclusion fencing, 75 dams and frontage to the Butheroo Creek.

Infrastructure includes several homes, two steel cattle yards, a three-stand shearing shed, numerous sheds and 13 silos with 550-tonnes of grain storage.

CBRE agents James Beer, Nick Connor, John Harrison and Thomas Quinn who have been appointed to handle the sale said preliminary investigations indicate a significant volume of high demand biodiversity credits could be available.

After selling 755ha to a neighbour, the 6982ha Butheroo has returned to the market via expressions of interest.

Swain family puts $9.5m on Carinda’s Warrawing

A dryland cropping, sheep and cattle breeding enterprise with established infrastructure for containment feeding cattle and sheep has been listed for $9.5 million ($1286/ha).

The 7385ha Warrawing is 22km from Carinda and 61km from Walgett, in the Western Plains region of New South Wales.

The property was offered by expressions of interest in August by Graham and Pauline Swain. It neighbours country owned by prominent cotton growers Peter and Jane Harris.

Warrawing has been operated by sons Michael and Peter, and the family is selling after 25 years of ownership to concentrate on its 5000 head Kia Ora Feedlot business near Brewarrina in the state’s north-west.

Around 1144ha is arable with the grey, brown and red clays and red-brown earths sown to a winter crop for either fodder cropping and or cash cropping purposes, depending on the season.

This year, the Swains are growing 1144ha of wheat, that is included in the sale. Additional cropping development potential is subject to Local Land Services approval.

The balance comprises 5415ha of native pasture and herbage and 826ha of salt bush country capable of consistently running 1200 ewes and lambs and 250 cows and calves.

The property has a drought lot used for containment feeding with capacity for up to 1500 cattle and 4000 sheep and lambs. It was established at the end of 2016 to take advantage of soft commodity prices and operated until the end of 2023.

Michael Swain said over that period, 700 to 1500 head of cattle were on feed at any one time, starting at 400kg and finished to 540kg for the domestic market.

Warrawing is watered by an 11km bore drain, a bore, seven dams, the Ginghet Creek and 9km of frontage to the Macquarie River, providing beneficial flood out opportunities, supported by a 447mm annual average rainfall.

Infrastructure includes a four-bedroom home, staff quarters, a cottage, cattle and sheep yards, a shearing shed, numerous sheds and grain storage. Over the last five years, 25km of new fencing has been erected.

LAWD agents Col Medway and Michael Corcoran are handling the sale.

Warrawing is watered by an 11km bore drain, a bore, seven dams, the Ginghet Creek and 9km of frontage to the Macquarie River, providing beneficial flood out opportunities, supported by a 447mm annual average rainfall.