THIS week’s property review includes this wrap-up of interesting recent listings across southern New South Wales, and two separate articles on listings in northern NSW and other states.

• Riverina producers offload top tier Berryjerry Station
• $20m tipped for David Newby’s beef platform
• Retiring Hereford breeder lists Coonamble holding
• Barham asset surrounded by three rivers

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.

Situated 33km west of Wagga Wagga in the tightly held Collingullie district of the Eastern Riverina, Berryjerry Station (pictured above) 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.

Located 30km from Goulburn, 70km from Yass and 80km from Canberra, the 1327ha North Raeburn Aggregation comprises two holdings – North Raeburn and Wyaroo – suited to beef, wool or prime lamb production and or fodder/dual purpose cropping.

Offered for the second time since settlement, the aggregation is being sold 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 to 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.

Retiring Hereford breeder lists Coonamble holding

Hereford breeder Rob Harris is selling his established grazing country in the highly regarded Coonamble district of northern New South Wales.

The 2160ha Strathcona, 80km north-west of Coonamble, has been held by the family since 1950 and is now being offered for genuine sale for retirement.

The open and timbered areas have fertile soils that range from heavy black and grey self-mulching to deep red and sandy loams capable of year-round pasture growth.

Strathcona is watered by a capped and piped artesian bore scheme. Infrastructure includes a five-bedroom home, an unused shearing shed, cattle and sheep yards, a shed and a silo.

Strathcona will be auctioned on November 5. Elders Richard Gemmell is handling the sale.

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).

Additionally, it 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.