RECENT property listings across Australia offer a variety of sheep, wool, goat and cattle production opportunities.

 Premier Kangaroo Island grazing country

 $9.5m+ for NQ’s Barragunda

 $8m for fully exclusion fenced Dirranbandi property

 EOIs extended for northern NSW’s Pindaroi Station

 Dehnert family offers Balone River country after 136 years

Premier Kangaroo Island grazing country

Around 65 years of Hams family ownership will end with the sale of a premier grazing holding on Kangaroo Island listed with a $9.5 million price guide.

The 1212ha Yattarna comprises two adjoining holdings near Newland, 22km south-west of Parndana and 54km south-west of Kingscote.

Historically, the property has produced sheep and wool and is currently running 4366 sheep, 36 cows and calves and one bull.

Elders agent Colin Hopkins said the highly productive and well managed property is a credit to the retiring vendor Robert Hams and his family.

“A key feature is the upgraded fencing matched by a well thought out farm plan. Obvious care and consideration have been given to effective stock handling, animal and feed management practices.”

Yattarna is situated in a 500mm to 550 mm annual rainfall region. It is also watered by 43 dams.

Improvements include two homes, a four-stand shearing shed, steel sheep yards, cattle yards and numerous sheds.

Yattarna is being offered for sale by expressions of interest closing on August 28.

$9.5m+ for NQ’s Barragunda

Offers above $9.5 million will be considered for open downs breeding, backgrounding or fattening country in North Queensland.

The 9269ha Barragunda is located 67km south of Hughenden in a tick-free area, with good access to markets near Townsville and Cloncurry, and southern meatworks and feedlots.

The property was auctioned in April by Peter and Marie Atkinson after 29 years of ownership, but passed-in at $9.25m.

Brodie Agencies agent Tom Brodie visited Barragunda last week and said the property is carrying a good body of feed that has hayed off and is available for immediate access for some livestock.

A good body of Mitchell, Flinders and buffel grass, and other native grasses and sweet fattening summer herbages, are growing on the pebbly chocolate and red fertile soils.

Barragunda is free of prickly acacia, but has a minor infestation of Parkinsonia along the creek systems that is being controlled by the vendor. A previous, small outbreak of Coral Cactus is being constantly monitored.

The property is situated in a 475mm rainfall region. It is watered by a sub-artesian bore and six equipped dams. After a good wet season, numerous short-term waterholes can be found along the Yantee and Gum Creeks.

Infrastructure includes a five-bedroom home, a one-bedroom cottage, steel cattle yards, steel sheep and goat yards, numerous sheds and 20km of exclusion fencing.

Barragunda is being sold bare of livestock, plant, equipment and materials.

$8m for fully exclusion fenced Dirranbandi property

Dirranbandi’s Cookson family has listed its fully exclusion fenced property in south-west Queensland for $8 million.

The 20,158ha Mulga Downs is situated halfway between Dirranbandi and Bollon and is being sold after the family purchased another property closer to their home block, Koomalah.

Mulga Downs is equally suited to cattle, sheep or goat breeding, and is offered with a 12,000DSE or 1400AE carrying capacity.

Nutrien Harcourts GDL agent Nick Dunsdon and Dirranbandi Pastoral Agency agent Stephen Burnett have been appointed to handle the sale.

They said the forward-thinking vendors have set up an opportunity for the incoming purchaser to take advantage of multiple, diverse income streams.

“Mulga Downs a turnkey livestock enterprise offering scale, diversity, value, excellent water facilities and well thought out paddocks.”

The agents are anticipating good interest from locals and interstate families looking to expand or relocate.

The country comprises a mix of red loam soils with mulga, box, wilga and gidgee timbers, and grey alluvial flood plains from the Mungallala and Nebine Creeks.

Mulga Downs is currently presenting with a good body of feed. It grows natural herbages and clovers in all seasons, as well as buffel and natural grasses in the summer.

It is watered by two new (natural flowing) artesian bores piped to 31 new tanks and 46 new troughs, supported by 400mm of average annual rainfall.

Infrastructure includes two homes, numerous sheds, two cattle yards, two sheep yards, a five-stand shearing shed and shearers’ quarters.

The former Cobb & Co changing station is home to a 100-year-old Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) registered weather station.

Mulga Downs comes with a registered carbon project and Gypsum Mine royalties plus an opportunity to purchase the mining lease.

EOIs extended for northern NSW’s Pindaroi Station

Expressions of interest have been extended for one of the Inverell district’s best mixed grazing and farming properties.

The historic 1938ha Pindaroi Station is located close to the township bearing the same name, halfway between Inverell and Ashford on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales.

It is only the second time in 55 years that Pindaroi Station has changed hands, with the current owners, Chris and Bec Tonkin, selling after 15 years of ownership.

When the property was listed earlier this year, RDR Real Estate agent Wally Duff was unable to offer a price guide; however, good grazing country in the district is making around $7500/ha, while good farming country is selling for $12,500/ha.

According to the Inverell Pioneer Village, Pindaroi Station once formed part of a much larger holding spanning 16,000ha settled by George Polhill in 1846. It was then acquired by James Campbell, a son of Alexander Campbell of Inverell Station.

The gently undulating country is situated 570m to 800m above sea level in an 800mm summer dominant rainfall area.

The Tonkins estimate the property could carry 700 breeders together with the cash crop or 700 breeders and 3000 ewes or 1000 adult equivalents.

Around 752ha are arable and comprise 70 percent chocolate and red basalt and 30 percent soft trap soils growing a mix of winter and summer crops.

Pindaroi Station is watered by two bores, the permanent Pindaroi Creek and 24 dams.

Improvements include two homes, numerous sheds, two shearing sheds, sheep and cattle yards and eight silos with 936-tonnes of grain storage.

Dehnert family offers Balone River country after 136 years

Balone River breeding, finishing and fodder cropping country held by the Dehnert family since 1888 is receiving strong inquiry according to Nutrien Harcourts agent Darryl Langton.

The well-located 2917ha Broadmarsh is 26km north-east of Surat and 79km south-east of Roma in south-west Queensland.

Broadmarsh has been destocked for six months. It consists mostly of buffel country with dark, alluvial river flats and frontages growing natural grasses and herbages.

The property boasts frontages to the Condamine and Balonne Rivers, supported by Wallumbilla Creek waterholes and a flowing bore.

Broadmarsh has significant potential for further development potential and will be auctioned on August 22.