This article is from the Australian Property Journal archive
AROUND $40 million is expected for a large-scale, sheep and goat enterprise spanning 80,887 hectares along the border of Queensland and NSW.
The Talbalba aggregation, near Cunnamulla, includes four holdings – Talbalba, Barrygowan, Mintaka and Dunsandle Station, comprising five freehold titles and four grazing homestead perpetual leases.
LAWD’s Col Medway and Simon Cumore have the listing on behalf of Will and Hollie Grimwade.
The properties are currently carrying a body of dry feed including Mitchell, Flinders and Buffel grass, and the flood plains provide productive herbage.
The aggregation offers a balance of soil types as well as flood-out areas from frontage to two creek systems, the Noorama and Widgeegoara.
“We have been running Dorper sheep in the western part of the aggregation, as well as 50,000 rangelands goats that have a sprinkling of Boer genetics, and have been able to take on agistment cattle when the opportunity presents,” Will Grimwade said.
He said all the land is inside exclusion fences and/or within a cluster, which assists with the control of feral pests and has “really boosted our productivity through being able to lock up and spell paddocks”.
The Talbalba aggregation offers a mix of 34,452 hectares of wooded alluvial plains, 13,431 hectares of brigalow, 13,745 hectares of mulga sandplains, 13,949 hectares of mulga, 4,679 hectares of gidgee, 472 hectares of poplar box woodlands and 149 hectares of open alluvial plains.
The aggregation has a combined carrying capacity of 40,000 DSE, and receives an average annual rainfall of 397mm.
“Significant investment by the Grimwade family over the past five years has developed Talbalba into a substantial turnkey livestock aggregation and holdings of this size, scale and level of development are rarely offered to the market,” Cudmore said.
“The aggregation will appeal to pastoralists seeking large-scale livestock enterprises capable of running Dorper or Merino sheep, goats and cattle, as well as investors looking to develop carbon and natural capital projects.”
The Grimwade family is based at the modern, four-bedroom Talbalba homestead, 195 kilometres south-east of Cunnamulla, which also features brand new governess accommodation and a seven-bedroom shearers’ quarters, a workshop and large shearing and machinery sheds.
A manager is based at the second infrastructure hub at Barrygowan, 135 kilometres south-east of Cunnamulla, which has a four-bedroom homestead and features an inground, partially covered swimming pool. It also includes a school room, governess accommodation, two-bedroom staff accommodation, various sheds, sheep, cattle and goat yards, in addition to an aircraft hangar and airstrip.
Medway said the strategic position of the aggregation between the two major east coast goat processors at Charleville and Bourke provides flexible marketing options.
The buyer will have the option to purchase the herd of about 50,000 goats.