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

• Beef & irrigation operation on Dawson River
• Crosbys list Maranoa grazing block
• CQ’s Eastlands heads to auction
• $5.2m for well-located breeding country
• Yarronvale auction postponed
• Reduced price for NQ floodplain finishing country

Located 15km south of Theodore and 180km south-west of Rockhampton, the 1800ha Boam Creek Aggregation is being offered as a drought-resilient grazing, irrigation and farming enterprise.

Beef & irrigation operation on Dawson River

The Wagner family has added more country to its integrated beef production and irrigation farming enterprise on the Dawson River in Central Queensland, with the expanded holding set for auction on September 3.

Located 15km south of Theodore and 180km south-west of Rockhampton, the 1800ha Boam Creek Aggregation is being offered as a drought-resilient grazing, irrigation and farming enterprise.

It comprises two properties – 1076ha Acacia (including an 89ha special lease) and 723ha Boam Creek.

The 1076ha Acacia portion was offered to the market in November last year but was passed in at auction.

The addition of Boam Creek has increased both the scale of the offering and its potential carrying capacity, from 1500 Adult Equivalents to 1900 head if the aggregation is used entirely for grazing.

Across the holding is 387ha of flood irrigation, 216ha under four centre pivots, 161ha of dryland cropping and 679ha of grazing country growing buffel, green panic and Rhodes grasses.

After producing strong cotton yields in 2024 and 2025, the vendors have this year planted sorghum and leucaena.

Water security

By district standards, the aggregation benefits from substantial water licences that underpin its irrigation areas and support consistent annual production.

Acacia has 1699ML of high-flow allocation, along with 2263ML per annum from three unregulated bores.

Boam Creek has 3946ML of high-flow allocation and two bores pumping 1460ML per annum.

JLL Agribusiness director Geoff Warriner said the Boam Creek Aggregation is an extensively developed operation.

“As demand grows for properties with reliable water access, it offers investors either a turnkey standalone business or strategic integration opportunity for existing supply chains, delivering valuable protection against seasonal volatility.”

Mr Warriner said the property’s water security provides a significant competitive advantage.

“Substantial water allocations, well above district averages, ensure consistent production capacity regardless of seasonal variations.”

Infrastructure includes three homes, workers accommodation, two cattle yards, three feed pens, two sheds, two silos with 132 tonnes of capacity and two 1200-tonne silage pits.

The Boam Creek Aggregation is scheduled for auction on September 3.

Acacia and Boam Creek will be auctioned concurrently, giving buyers the option to bid on either individual property or on the aggregation as a whole.

Crosbys list Maranoa grazing block

Southern Queensland cattle producers Lionel and Lynda Crosby are preparing to sell their versatile breeding and backgrounding property in the Maranoa region.

Located on the doorstep of Surat, the 1561ha Ashton Grove is 84km south-east of Roma and within easy reach of regional saleyards, feedlots and major processing facilities.

JLL Agribusiness agent David Summerville expects the property to appeal to a broad buyer pool, including locals and neighbouring landholders looking for either an expansion block or a standalone operation.

The Crosbys purchased Ashton Grove in 2014 and have developed it as a turnkey grazing operation featuring reliable pasture country with scattered Bauhinia trees.

Well-established stands of Mitchell and buffel grasses, supported by winter herbages and clovers, provide carrying capacity for up to 300 breeders.

The property also includes prized open black soil plains, offering scope for future cropping development and the potential to strengthen its finishing capability.

Water is supplied by three dams and a sub-artesian bore, which reticulates to a tank and troughs, supported by 573mm of average annual rainfall.

Infrastructure includes a four-bedroom donga, cattle yards and a shed.

Ashton Grove will be auctioned on a bare basis on August 26.

Located on the doorstep of Surat, the 1561ha Ashton Grove is 84km south-east of Roma and within easy reach of regional saleyards, feedlots and major processing facilities.

CQ’s Eastlands heads to auction

Retiring Edward Adams is auctioning his Central Queensland breeding property on August 26.

Located 40km east of Duaringa and 95km south-west of Rockhampton, Eastlands comprises 4492ha of freehold grazing country.

The property has been destocked for more than 18 months, providing a good body of feed.

Offering further development potential, Ray White Rural agent Richard Brosnan said there has been strong interest from mostly Central Queensland producers looking for a block to expand their breeding herd.

Eastlands has a balance of developed forest and brigalow country, with a section of the property fronting the Dawson River.

Water is supplied by 15 dams, supported by 710mm of average annual rainfall.

Infrastructure includes a three-bedroom home. An agreement allows Eastlands to use the neighbouring cattle yards on Mourangee.

Eastlands has a balance of developed forest and brigalow country, with a section of the property fronting the Dawson River.

$5.2m for well-located breeding country

A productive Southern Downs holding within an easy drive of Brisbane and the Gold Coast has been listed for $5.2 million by Trevor Robertson.

The 3882ha Brooklyn Macintyre Aggregation is 10km south of the Gore Roadhouse and 72km west of Warwick and 114km south of Toowoomba.

It comprises the 1178ha Brooklyn, the 2071ha Macintyre plus 633ha of leasehold land.

Located with bitumen road frontage, the adjoining holdings are suitable for breeding sheep or fat lambs, wool growing, as well as goat and cattle breeding or backgrounding.

The aggregation has soft traprock soils, with areas of terra rossa-like types, with well sheltered hills running to creek flats on the Macintyre Brook and Branch Creek.

Pastures consist of Queensland blue grass and other native species, with some introduced pasture species, digit and legumes.

The Brooklyn block has 2.5km of Macintyre Brook frontage, 11 dams and a bore, while Macintyre has 2km frontage to the Branch Creek, 13 dams and a new solar equipped bore.

Infrastructure includes a five-bedroom home, a renovated one-bedroom cottage, a shed, steel cattle yards, exclusion fencing, a three-stand shearing shed and sheep yards.

Nutrien Harcourts GDL agent David Benham is handling the sale.

The 3882ha Brooklyn Macintyre Aggregation is 10km south of the Gore Roadhouse and 72km west of Warwick and 114km south of Toowoomba.

Yarronvale auction postponed

Schute Bell Badgery Lumby has postponed the auction Yarronvale, a south-west Queensland grazing property generating carbon income.

The 32,140ha property is in the Cooladdi district, 120km west of Charleville and was once a stop on the historic Paroo River stock and droving routes.

Destocked for four years and growing abundant feed and mulga reserves, the property is being offered for sale by Ray Taylor from Emerald after 28 years of ownership.

In the past, Mr Taylor said he has run 6000 sheep and 400 cattle.

“The land has been regenerating resulting in feed above your head, while generating a supplementary carbon income, which has another four years to run.”

The property has red loam, basalt outcrops and grey river and creek soils timbered with mulga, box, sandalwood, gidgee, coolabah and wattle.

Yarronvale has 13km of Paroo River frontage with reliable waterholes, a flowing artesian bore and 13 dams, supported by 498mm of average annual rainfall.

Infrastructure includes a five-bedroom home, a six-stand shearing shed, two sheep yards, three cattle yards and numerous sheds.

Yarronvale will be auctioned on September 9 by agent Jason Hartin.

Yarronvale has 13km of Paroo River frontage with reliable waterholes, a flowing artesian bore and 13 dams, supported by 498mm of average annual rainfall.

Reduced price for NQ floodplain finishing country

Ingham-based Gary Carrington and Sonya Watts have reduced the price of their North Queensland floodplain finishing country to $4.9 million.

The 377ha Riverlands Grazing aggregation comprises three adjoining freehold blocks – 180ha Barnes’s, 134ha Fairley and 61ha Blanco – that were offered to the market in September last year for a combined $5.7m.

The couple purchased the blocks in 2021 after the couple sold the 22,700ha Redrock near Einasleigh for $11m (including 1900 head of cattle).

Located 10km south of Ingham and 95km north of Townsville, the holdings were originally separate grazing and sugarcane farming enterprises constrained by size and flooding.

The country is covered by highly productive, palatable, improved hymenachne and paragrass, setaria and pangola grass pastures.

Slaney & Co agent Henry Slaney anticipates interest from families looking for well-located and reasonably priced finishing country.

“Riverlands Grazing would bring added value to an existing cattle breeding enterprise.”

Mr Slaney said carrying capacity should be viewed in turnoff cycles.

“Early cycle, post wet season, the aggregation could carry more than 500 adult cattle (liveweight 300kg), followed by a further 300 adult cattle in August.”

Mr Slaney said flood-plain grazing was a two-edged sword.

“On one hand, the annual, slow-moving, fertile flood waters replenish waterholes and rejuvenate pasture, ensuring productive cattle performance.”

“On the other, the grazing window is only possible from after flood water recedes (typically in March and April) until about late November or early December when storm rain revisits the area.”

During their five-years of ownership, the couple replaced or renewed all the fencing, including laneways and mustering squares for ease of stock handling.

Situated in a high rainfall (2160mm) region, water is supplied by the Cattle Creek and several lagoons.

Infrastructure across the aggregation includes steel cattle yards and a shed.

Located 10km south of Ingham and 95km north of Townsville, the Riverlands Grazing aggregation holdings were originally separate grazing and sugarcane farming enterprises constrained by size and flooding.