Watervalley Farm on SA’s Yorke Peninsula includes valuable grain storage and handling infrastructure. Photo: Ray White Rural

SOUTH Australia’s Watervalley Farm and the Vater Family Aggregation, and Wallowa Downs in Victoria’s Wimmera are on the market, and showing off the best of their stellar seasons.

Watervalley Farm

The listing of a premier cropping engine in the heart of SA’s Yorke Peninsula is set to draw national and global interest and test the state’s agricultural market.

The 813ha Watervalley Farm near Maitland offers significant freight advantages by sitting 25km from the port at Ardrossan and 45km from Wallaroo receival hubs.

Offered to the market by Watervalley Investments, the property is 100-percent arable with highly fertile soils and an operational platform designed for maximum efficiency.

Ray White Rural agent Daniel Schell said Watervalley Farm offers an unmatched combination of contiguous scale and world-class handling infrastructure.

“Watervalley Farm is not simply a large-scale parcel of quality cropping land,” Mr Schell said.

“The combination of the land, long cropping runs, grain storage capacity and operational infrastructure creates an exceptionally efficient farming platform.”

Mr Schell said Watervalley Farm stands out as a turn-key agricultural powerhouse.

“All internal fencing has been removed to allow for seamless, high-speed machinery runs across gently undulating red-brown earths, in a reliable 500mm average annual rainfall region.”

Mr Schell said the opportunity to purchase Watervalley Farm as a whole or in any combination of the four lots, ranging from 130ha to 258ha, provides genuine flexibility.

“Likely buyers will be local farming businesses looking to expand through to larger corporate and investment groups looking to secure additional scale and high-quality agricultural land.”

The turnkey storage complex includes a modern Allied Grain Systems facility with more than 11,000 tonnes of automated-aeration silo storage, complemented by 4500-5000t of additional shed storage to push total capacity beyond 15,000t.

Logistics are streamlined via high-capacity handling equipment featuring a 250t/hr intake and 180t/hr outturn bucket elevator, twin 10m calibrated weighbridges, a dedicated sampling control building, 10,000 litres of diesel storage, dual CAT generators and two machinery sheds that each exceed 1000m2.

Watervalley Farm is being offered for sale by expressions of interest closing October 13.

Vater Family Aggregation

SA’s Mid North is set to attract buyer attention with the listing of a mixed-farming aggregation after a decade of ownership by the Vater family.

The 1104ha portfolio, operated under long-term leasing arrangements with local farming families, is held by the Vaters, well known across the region for grain trading, transport and storage.

The Vater Family Aggregation comprises four non-contiguous holdings across two operational hubs: the 564ha Greenhills and 143ha Crawfords properties near Saddleworth, and the 239ha Przibillas and 157ha Hogbens/Ricks holdings near Manoora.

These districts are recognised for reliable production of cereals, oilseeds, legumes, pulses, hay, prime lamb and wool, supported by long-term average annual rainfall of 450-500mm.

Ray White Rural agent Daniel Schell said the offering is expected to generate strong inquiry.

“Interest will come from neighbouring landholders looking to expand, as well as larger farming enterprises seeking strategic acquisition opportunities.”

“Buyers from outside the district are also likely to be attracted by the scale of the offering, the reliability of the region and the flexibility to purchase individual holdings, combinations of properties or the aggregation as a whole,” Mr Schell said.

The largest property is the 564ha Greenhills near Saddleworth, described as one of the most significant holdings to come to market in the district in recent years.

It has 396ha of arable land maintained under a continuous cropping program, along with 160ha of grazing country currently used to run sheep.

A further 40ha of arable land within the grazing area is currently used for pasture production.

Infrastructure on the property includes a stone homestead in an elevated setting, supported by operational improvements.

Across the aggregation, improvements include two homes, two-stand shearing sheds, sheep and cattle yards, and numerous machinery and storage sheds.

The Vater Family Aggregation will be auctioned on October 15.

Wallowa Downs, Vic

More than $13 million is expected for premium dryland and irrigated farming and grazing country in Victoria’s Wimmera region.

Located near Telopea Downs, 62km north of Kaniva, the 2942ha Wallowa Downs is close to the McBride family’s substantial grazing and cropping aggregation, which spans 47,660ha across 11 adjoining holdings.

The Sanders family, based at Keith in SA, bought Wallowa Downs in 2021 and has since invested heavily in improvements, including 10.5km of new exclusion fencing, 70km of new internal fencing, new shedding, and pasture renovation.

Nutrien Harcourts agent Geoff Watts said the property is being offered with strong livestock infrastructure, extensive water assets and scope for further expansion.

“Wallowa Downs is enjoying a tremendous season and anticipated to attract corporate interest, as well as buyers seeking a large-scale sheep and cropping operation with the added benefit of broadscale irrigation.”

Wallowa Downs includes six centre pivots, supported by a 2000ML water licence. Photo: Nutrien Harcourts

The gently undulating landscape transitions into expansive open flats, with productive grey sandy loam soils over clay and extensive areas of improved clayed country producing cereals, legumes and lucerne.

A key feature of the offering is the substantial irrigation development.

Around 650ha is irrigated under six centre pivots across 13 circles, supported by four equipped irrigation bores and a 2000ML water licence.

Mr Watts said the irrigation assets provide a strong platform for high-value cropping, fodder production and future intensification.

The property has also historically supported a diverse range of horticultural enterprises.

Wallowa Downs has 682ha of established lucerne and chicory-based pastures, 840ha of annual grazing crops and 200ha of cash crops.

The enterprise is currently running more than 3000 Merino ewes and lambs at foot, plus replacements, and is achieving a 139pc marking rate.

It also finishes 1500 lambs from a sister property each year.

In 2025, 3500 lambs were sold at an average weight of 58kg.

Situated in 471mm average annual rainfall region, the property’s water security is further supported by an additional equipped bore.

Infrastructure includes include a five-bedroom bluestone home, a new two-bedroom cottage, renovated eight-bedroom shearers’ quarters, numerous sheds and more than 1200t of grain storage.

Sheep infrastructure includes upgraded steel and timber yards, a six-stand shearing shed and confinement feeding pens with capacity for 4000 head.

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