This article is from the Australian Property Journal archive
AMID a “perfect season”, the versatile Postmans Aggregation on the edge of north-west NSW’s Golden Triangle region has come to the market.
The 3,497-hectare dryland cropping and grazing property at Warialda is collection of four properties – Postmans, Brentwood, Yarran and Yarran West – and is on the market through LAWD’s George Barton, who said it boasts the “option to pivot quickly in alignment with season and commodity prices”
The aggregation has a carrying capacity of 21,000 dry sheep equivalents and an average rainfall of 685 millimetres, with 62% of the land area under dryland cultivation.
The livestock enterprise is currently running 590 mixed breeders and 630 yearling trade cattle to utilise excess feed on the grazing land, which includes 465 hectares of improved pastures and 848 hectares of native grasses. This is supported by cattle yards featuring water connections, ramps and crushes and with holding capacities ranging from 70 to 1,000 head.
Vendor, Alistair Michel, said Postmans was experiencing a “perfect season”, with barley already planted.
“We’ve certainly had one of our best ever starts to the year, and the aggregation has a good mix of soil types that provide options for planting windows for farming,” Michel said.
“There’s plenty of opportunity because it’s suited to a mix of farming or grazing for sheep and cattle, and it’s a good safe area for rainfall and temperature.”
The aggregation ranges from gently sloping to undulating open grazing country with a small amount of timber, and soils consisting of heavy black self-mulching to chocolate brown with sections of red basalt.
A comprehensive record of crop yields is available for the past three years and the 2024 cropping plan includes 1,540 hectares of barley, 140 hectares of feed barley, 36 hectares of oats/lucerne and 172 hectares of fallow.
The aggregation is securely watered by several independent sources, including three bores equipped with electric and solar pumps, 24 earth catchment dams and a large 200 megalitre storage dam. Water is pumped from the bores to 12 tanks and reticulated to 34 strategically located concrete troughs.
Multiple machinery sheds, an abundance of grain silos and two woolsheds that are currently unequipped, but have access to power, further add to infrastructure across the properties.
Three houses are located on the Aggregation including the recently renovated four-bedroom Brentwood Homestead, a three-bedroom house at Yarran, and the historic circa 1880 three- bedroom Postmans Homestead boasting hand-built stone walls, which would benefit from renovation.
