Naranghi is located in the tightly held Telangatuk East district and offers a well-improved a versatile continuous cropping opportunity. Photo: Elders Mt Gambier

SOUTHERN Wimmera country is on offer with the listing of the Dunstans’ Naranghi, and in Western Australia’s Great Southern, First Australian Farmland has lowered price expectations on Goodhope and Tagliaferri,

Naranghi, Vic

A continuous cropping enterprise in Victoria’s southern Wimmera has been listed for $14 million or $17,744/ha, after close to 70 years of family ownership.

Tom and Amity Dunstan are offering the 789ha Naranghi near Telangatuk East, 57km south-west of Horsham, on the western approaches to the Grampians Ranges.

The property comprises the adjoining 372ha Home and 415ha Robbies blocks, which are being sold on a bare basis.

Its undulating country features deep sandy and clay loams supporting rotations of canola, wheat and beans, followed by cereal straw bale production after harvest.

Opportunistic summer crops have included corn, sorghum, safflower and mungbeans.

Elders agent Damian Venn described Naranghi as a genuine turnkey cropping operation.

“The property has demonstrated reliable grain production in a 525mm average annual rainfall zone.”

Mr Venn said contour drainage, zero tillage, stubble retention and precision agriculture practices underpin the operation’s resilience.

“The farming system uses controlled traffic farming, 2cm real time kinematic guidance, soil mapping and variable rate applications in a stock-free continuous cropping enterprise.”

Naranghi was a mixed farm before moving to continuous cropping in the early 2000s.

The agent said the existing infrastructure would allow livestock to be reintroduced.

Both blocks have laneway systems, gravelled boom spray fill sites, external fencing and gateways.

Contour drainage supports efficient water management.

Most improvements are on the Home Block, including a three-bedroom home, a renovated cottage, sheds, nine silos with 885 tonnes of grain storage and two fertiliser silos.

Two dams supply water.

The Robbies Block has permanent underground water supplied by two equipped bores, along with a shed and a three-stand shearing shed.

Goodhope and Tagliaferri, WA

European-owned, Melbourne-managed First Australian Farmland has lowered its price expectations for the adjoining Goodhope and Tagliaferri properties, offering 2543ha of cropping and grazing country in Western Australia’s Great Southern region.

The 1564ha Goodhope and 979ha Tagliaferri are near Green Range, on the southern side of South Coast Highway, 80km north-east of Albany.

Both are a short drive from Wellstead and close to multiple CBH sites.

The 1564ha Goodhope in the Green Range district in WA’s Great Southern is currently run as a cropping only operation. Photo: Elders

The aggregation is expected to fetch between $14 million and $15.5 million, with Elders agent Simon Thomas handling the sale.

Returned to farmland from forestry plantations over the past decade, the properties are suited to canola and cereal cropping, as well as sheep and cattle production.

The aggregation receives an average annual rainfall of 620mm and has 1533ha of arable land.

Soils include sands over gravel, sands over clay and gravelly sandplains.

This year’s cropping program comprises 420ha of wheat and 328ha of canola.

The properties are currently destocked but carried almost 9000 sheep in 2023, with stock finished in confinement feeding facilities.

Mr Thomas expects interest from farmers and investors seeking to expand their footprint in a reliable, high-rainfall production zone.

Goodhope

Goodhope is priced between $9 million and $9.75 million.

Its grazing flats and elevated, undulating country include 1185ha of arable land.

Dams and rainwater tanks supply water, while the coastal location helps reduce frost risk and the number of heat-stress days.

Infrastructure comprises a three-bedroom home, three sheds, a five-stand shearing shed, steel sheep yards and two 76-tonne grain silos.

Tagliaferri

Neighbouring Tagliaferri is listed between $5 million and $5.75 million and has 539ha of arable land, traditionally used to grow canola, barley, wheat and oats.

The property has a three-bedroom home and two sheds, with water supplied by numerous dams.

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