Goondiwindi-based Reardon Farms has paid $19.1 million for Trenayr and Nanima on the fertile north-west Plains of New South Wales, ending 50 years of ownership by Lawrence and Lyn Fing.

Spanning 1389ha, the highly developed cropping aggregation is located 27km south-east of Moree. The adjoining properties have bitumen road frontage and are close to major grain receival sites and cotton gins.

Hennessy Real Estate Moree agent Ed Wisemantel said Trenayr and Nanima sold under the hammer after spirited bidding by four registered bidders in a packed auction room.

During the marketing campaign, he described the turnkey cropping opportunity as offering scale, efficiency and the ability for a new owner to step in and continue or enhance an already productive enterprise.

The new owners are well-known cotton growers and cattle producers, Robert and Jennie Reardon.

In August 2024, the couple sold the meticulously developed Worral Creek Aggregation between Talwood and Mungindi in the Border Rivers region of southern Queensland in a landmark deal worth $350m.

The 26,855ha irrigation and dryland farming enterprise comprises seven non-contiguous properties across four hubs and was offered with 65,900ML of water entitlements.

The Reardons own Kotaki which neighbours Trenayr and Nanima.

Purchased in 1975, it forms part of a family-owned business operating across northern New South Wales and southern Queensland specialising in irrigated cotton and dryland crops (including wheat, sorghum, barley, chickpeas and sunflowers), as well as cattle.

Trenayr and Nanima

More than 96 percent (1340ha) is arable and features fertile grey to black self-mulching soils, renowned for moisture retention and consistent crop establishment.

The aggregation has a long-standing history of reliable winter and summer cropping production operated under a no-till farming system that is efficiently laid out.

It is suited to wheat, barley, chickpeas and canola in the winter and sorghum, cotton, corn and mung beans during the summer months.

Situated in a 635mm average annual rainfall region, with a strong spring/summer dominance, the properties are watered by a bore, three wells and Tycannah Creek frontage.

Infrastructure includes a four-bedroom home, a three-bedroom home, numerous sheds and grain storage and handling facilities.