Brentwood is part of the Weise Aggregation and sits adjacent to the Riverina town of Ariah Park. Photo: Johnston Rural Group

FARMS on the market in New South Wales include the Weise Aggregation at Ariah Park, Waringah at Conargo, and Kookaburragong and Laurel Hills at Condobolin.

Weise Aggregation

The sale of a productive cropping operation in the New South Wales’ Riverina will end 115 years of Weise family farming in Ariah Park.

The Weise Aggregation spans 2482ha of open mixed farming country across three non-contiguous farms – 825ha Brentwood, 824ha Pinevale South and 832ha Glengarry.

Listed for around $21.5 million by Scott and Melissa Weise, the three properties are currently run as a single enterprise and produce cereals, pulses and oilseeds, as well as some livestock.

This year’s cropping program consists of 1120ha of wheat, 660ha of canola and 440ha of lupins.

The Weise family arrived in Ariah Park in 1910 and over the generations aggregated Brentwood (1936), Pinevale (2002) and more recently, Glengarry (2015).

Johnston Rural Group has been appointed to sell the three farms as a whole or as separate assets.

Expressions of interest close November 27.

Brentwood- $10.2M or $12,364/ha

Brentwood is situated on the eastern side of Ariah Park, and around 95 percent of its 825ha is arable.

The reliable red loams are growing 567ha of wheat and 220ha of lupins.

Suited to farming and livestock production, it consists of four adjoining blocks with three described as blank canvases offering development upside or subdivision potential.

The property is underpinned by around 500mm of average annual rainfall and watered by eight dams.

Infrastructure includes a four-bedroom home, a three-stand shearing shed, steel sheep yards, two sheds, and seven silos.

Pinevale South – $6.15M or $7464/ha 

The 824ha Pinevale South is near Beckom, centrally located between West Wyalong, Griffith and Temora.

Around 94 percent of the open cropping country is arable, with the reliable red loams growing 550ha of wheat and 222ha of lupins.

Underpinned by 475mm of average annual rainfall and watered by seven dams, it has a dedicated timber belt to improve on-farm biodiversity.

Infrastructure includes a shed and an 85-tonne fertiliser silo.

​Glengarry – $5.15M or $6190/ha 

The 832ha Glengarry is 18km from Ardlethan and 19km from Beckom.

It has mostly open, gently rolling red farming country suited to cropping and livestock, and includes 10 dams.

This year, it is growing 659ha of canola.

Infrastructure includes a four-bedroom home, numerous sheds, a three-stand shearing shed, sheep and cattle yards and three silos.

Waringah

Lachlan Bull is selling a high calibre cropping property in the southern Riverina.

The 2004ha Waringah is located 45km north-east of Conargo and 80km from Deniliquin.

Nutrien Harcourts agent James Sides described Waringah as a state-of-the-art irrigated cropping and finishing property.

“It has been superbly managed with modern soil and cropping practices and presents to the market as one of the best purchasing opportunities ever offered in the region,” Mr Sides said.

Waringah has 310ha of lateral spray irrigation, new in 2023, and 450ha of newly developed lasered bankless and pontoon-layout irrigation.

Waringah in the Conargo district on average grows 150ha of irrigated cotton. Photo: Nutrien Harcourts

Across the farm, there is 1150ha of highly fertile alluvial self-mulching and soft loams capable of growing winter and summer crops, as well as fodder.

On average, 150ha is sown to cotton, 155ha to seed canola and the balance of irrigation sown to wheat.

Around 390ha of dryland cultivation is growing barley.

The Riverina grazing country is also running cattle and sheep.

Mr Sides said buyers can further expand the irrigation development with extensive dryland cropping areas suitable for lateral spray or centre-pivot spray irrigation.

“Continuous vegetation management has also been implemented to allow for annual dryland cropping expansion.”

The property is watered by two bores with 40ML of combined daily extraction, supported by 375mm of rainfall.

Infrastructure includes numerous sheds, cattle yards, three silos with 165t of storage and extensive new fencing, including exclusion fencing.

Waringah has development approval (starting 2027) for 11 wind turbines contracted to a major energy supplier, with scope to generate substantial passive income.

Waringah is being offered for sale via expressions of interest.

Kookaburragong and Laurel Hills

After 10 years of ownership, Condobolin’s Clinton Ridley is selling his cropping and grazing country in central western NSW.

Mr Ridley has listed the 1393ha Kookaburragong, 25km south of Condobolin and 80km from West Wyalong, and Laurel Hills, 5km away.

Ray White Rural agent Paddy Ward was unable to offer a price guide but said properties in the region are making $1400/ac for grazing country and $1800/ac for cropping land.

Kookaburragong is a typical Lachlan Valley operating as a sheep and winter-cropping enterprise, but is equally suited to cattle.

Soils include red loams, red clays and Humbug Creek alluvials suitable for fattening livestock, with some shallow self-mulching clay gilgai country timbered with rosewoods, myalls, pine, red gum, box and belah.

Currently, 550ha is sown to barley, with the balance used for grazing.

Kookaburragong is watered by 10 dams and 9.5km of double frontage to the seasonal Humbug Creek in a 450mm average annual rainfall region.

Infrastructure includes a five-bedroom home, a three-stand shearing shed, steel sheep yards, two sheds and a containment yard with pens and feed areas.

Kookaburragong and Laurel Hills each have a containment yard with pens and feed areas. Photo: Ray White Rural

The 508ha Laurel Hills is described as an efficient cropping enterprise that has gently sloping, open paddocks with long runs.

The gilgai country has red loam soils with some shallow self-mulching clays, currently sown to 400ha of barley.

The balance is used for grazing.

Laurel Hills is watered by three dams and supported by 450mm of average annual rainfall.

Infrastructure includes a two-bedroom home, numerous sheds, steel sheep yards and an established containment yard with pens and feed areas.

Kookaburragong and Laurel Hills will be auctioned December 4.

Coleambally Station & Noonamena Aggregation

An offers-to-purchase campaign for one of the premier irrigation and grazing holdings in the Riverina region of south-western NSW will close November 20.

Owned by Chinese investor WL Agriculture, the Coleambally Station and Noonameena Aggregation is located 15km from Coleambally and 79km from Griffith in the Murrumbidgee Valley, renowned for its free-draining, sandy loam soils complemented by a Mediterranean climate.

Coleambally Station & Noonameena Aggregation. Photo: Colliers

Offered for sale in October last year as an 8300ha portfolio, 2286ha sold to a local producer for cattle and sheep production following an offers-to-purchase campaign.

In addition, 1005ML of water entitlements was purchased by a Murrumbidgee River irrigator expanding his portfolio.

Today, the Coleambally Station and Noonameena Aggregation spans 6014ha and comprises around 1050ha of laser-levelled flood irrigation, 1750ha of cropping, and 3200ha of grazing and support land.

The substantial water entitlements total more than 4100ML and include 3100ML of Lower Murrumbidgee groundwater entitlements plus access to the Coleambally Channel Scheme.

In July, Colliers Agribusiness agent Matthew Tolmachoff told Grain Central, the aggregation was likely to appeal to irrigators and croppers.

“Given favourable soil types and topography, the asset also offers the opportunity for further irrigated cropping expansion, horticulture development potential and/or conservation, environmental and carbon projects,” Mr Tolmachoff said.

The Coleambally Station and Noonameena Aggregation last traded hands in May 2013, when it was sold by Alan and Robyn Turner who, at the time, were running an irrigated and dryland farming enterprise, together with livestock breeding and
finishing.

Infrastructure includes two homes, numerous cottages and sheds, two shearing sheds, and 1000t of grain storage.

The Coleambally Station and Noonameena Aggregation is offered for sale in one line or as separate holdings.

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