THIS week’s property review includes this wrap-up of interesting recent listings across Queensland and New South Wales, and separate articles on recently completed sales of note, and new listings in Victoria and South Australia.

• Butlers sell Teelba Station to expand with Rosehill
• Teelba’s Ungabilla offers grazing and cropping
• Versatile country on offer in central western NSW

Yards on Teelba Station

Butlers sell Teelba Station to expand with Rosehill

After nine years of ownership, the Butler family is selling Teelba Station, a turnkey Wagyu breeding property near Glenmorgan on Queensland’s Darling Downs.

The 8774ha holding, pictured above, is situated 30km from Teelba and 160km from Goondiwindi.

Vendor Michael Butler operates his cattle grazing business across two properties in southern Queensland.

Teelba is home to the Wagyu breeding herd, while Widgewa, a cropping property between Goondiwindi and Moonie, produces oats and other crops to grow calves.

Mr Butler said the family recently purchased the 3933ha Rosehill in the North Burnett as part of its succession planning.

“The property’s high carrying capacity country will support the expansion of our Wagyu operations,” he said.

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Nutrien Harcourts GDL agent Andrew McCallum said Teelba Station is renowned for its cattle performance.

“The property has built a reputation for consistently turning off stock early by delivering impressive weight gains and outstanding production results.”

The mostly level to gently undulating country comprises brigalow, belah and softwood scrub, with abundant buffel grass and capacity to run 1500 Wagyu cows and calves.

In season, clover, medics and winter herbages provide additional forage across the property.

Mr Butler said the family has invested substantial capital in Teelba Station since 2017.

“We have fully exclusion fenced the enterprise, built new steel cattle yards with a double deck loading ramp, drilled an artesian bore and piped the water to the paddocks, replaced fencing and erected 16km of laneways,” he said.

Water is supplied by the artesian bore, as well as 15 dams and Teelba Creek.

Situated at the southern end of the Teelba Valley, the property comprises a series of fertile valleys that receive runoff from the surrounding ridges. Average annual rainfall is around 550mm.

Infrastructure includes a three-bedroom home, worker’s accommodation, steel cattle yards and numerous sheds.

Teelba Station will go to auction on December 11. Nutrien Harcourts GDL and Ray White Rural are jointly handling the sale.

Teelba’s Ungabilla offers grazing and cropping

Ungabilla, described as one of the best performing cropping and grazing performers in the Western Downs region in Queensland, will head to auction in December.

The 2965ha property is also in the Teelba district, 155km south-east of Roma and 235km west of Dalby.

It has been owned by Shane and Mary Power for 26 years, with the couple now planning to retire to Goondiwindi.

Under current management, 1540ha is devoted to dryland cropping, with the balance used for beef production – typically 300 breeders or 400 to 500 backgrounders.

The picturesque, undulating property is exclusion fenced.

Its heavy chocolate brigalow/belah scrub soils support grain sorghum grown as a cash crop and specialised Mega sweet forage sorghum for livestock silage.

Oats provides a reliable winter crop and has historically been harvested for grain or baled for high-quality hay.

Smaller areas of red belah, broadleaf box and sandalwood country have been blade-ploughed and established to buffel grass, clover and medics for grazing.

JLL Agribusiness agents Clayton Smith and Geoff Warriner describe Ungabilla as a hidden gem.

“The property is a true testament of quality soils and industry ‘best practice’ management underpinning its reputation of producing high yield quality crops and capacity to finish livestock,” the pair said.

The sale includes about 1500 tonnes of silage and 74ha of forage sorghum planted in October, with a further 400ha of grain sorghum to be planted.

An artesian bore and dams supply water to the property.

Infrastructure includes a three-bedroom home, a three-bedroom dwelling, and guest and staff accommodation and quarters.

Other infrastructure comprises steel cattle yards, numerous sheds, two 1085-tonne grain silos, two silage pits with a combined capacity of 1500 tonnes and two 3000-tonne grain bunkers.

Ungabilla will be offered at auction on December 11.

Ungabilla is 12km from Teelba, 155km south-east of Roma and 235km west of Dalby.

Versatile country on offer in central western NSW

After ten years of ownership, Peasley Farming is selling its livestock and cropping enterprise in New South Wales’ Central West.

Offered with a $2470/ha ($1000/ac) price guide, the 3314ha Wandella is 40km from Tottenham and 75km from Condobolin.

Kevin Miller Whitty Lennon & Co agent Gavan Coote said after a good season, the vendors are currently harvesting and achieving above average yields.

“Wandella will attract producers seeking scale and versatility. Historically, the property has been farmed in rotation with pastures, supporting a flexible combination of grain, fodder, sheep and cattle production,” he said.

Red loam soils stretch across most of the property, with lighter loams along the ridge country.

Natural pastures include trefoil, clovers, ryegrass and a mix of winter and summer grasses, with established timber belts providing shelter for livestock.

The property’s livestock carrying capacity has previously been assessed at 1.5DSE to 2.5DSE per hectare, depending on seasonal conditions.

The holding is known to have run around 4000 ewes and progeny plus 400 cows and calves together with winter cereal cropping, including wheat, barley and oats.

Wandella is watered by 24 dams and Tiger Creek frontage.

Infrastructure includes a renovated four-bedroom home, a two-bedroom dwelling, a three-bedroom cottage, a four-stand shearing shed, steel sheep and cattle yards, three sheds and 11 grain silos with a combined 660 tonnes of capacity.