30,000ha northern Queensland station hits the market

After three decades at the helm a Queensland family is selling its premier station with more than 6500 head of cattle and 659ha of irrigated cropping land.

A Queensland family are selling the 30,284ha Woodhouse Station, located 50km west of Ayr, Qld.

More than 6500 head of cattle are for sale alongside a premier Queensland station, offering 659ha of developed irrigation land.

The Rapisarda family, of Rapisarda Investments, has listed its 30,284ha Woodhouse Station, located 50km west of Ayr and 100km south of Townsville in northern Queensland.

Owned by the family for almost 30 years, Woodhouse Station is for sale, walk-in walkout, via expressions of interest closing March 18, as a part of succession planning. It includes 6530 head of quality Red Brahman Cattle.

No price guide has been offered for the property.

“The sale of Woodhouse Station presents an exceptional opportunity for corporate investors, cattle producers, sugarcane and horticulture growers to acquire a premier property in one of Queensland’s rarely available and highly productive regions,” Queensland Rural selling agent Troy Trevor said.

Woodhouse Station comprises 659 hectares of developed irrigation land and 29,617ha of grazing land.

Located near the Clare Weir, there is a 3404ML of channel water allocation. The water is directly accessed from the Burdekin Haughton channel, which passes through the property.

As a supplement to the channel water, the property also has a 430ML underground water allocation, drawing water from the Woodhouse Barratta Catchment.

The irrigated land is currently used for production of sugar cane and horticulture, including watermelons and rockmelons.

The station is rated to carry 6800 adult equivalent, with the current cattle numbers to date including 3123 mixed age breeders plus followers, 126 bulls, 600 branded calves, 1112 yearling steers and 1599 yearling heifers.

Meanwhile, south of the border a premier grazing enterprise in northern NSW has hit the market, where it is expected to sell in the high $20m range.

A NSW farming family are selling the 2051ha Jamberoo property near Walcha, NSW.

Jamberoo is rated to carry in excess of 25,000 dry sheep equivalents.

Jamberoo, spanning 2051ha in the Yarrowitch-Walcha district, is located among a series of recent top-dollar district sales including Upton Farms, Kentucky Blue and Lakeside properties.

Purchased in 2017 by a NSW farming family, Jamberoo has been significantly redeveloped, with new high performance, fescue-based pastures established during their tenure.

At Jamberoo there has been a mix of breeding cows and backgrounding, fattening steers, with the property rated to carry in excess of 25,000 dry sheep equivalents, or up to 1400 breeding cows or backgrounding 3000 to 4500 steers.

“Over the years during its pasture development Jamberoo has operated with a beef breeding herd and increasingly a steer fattening program. It is our opinion that the potential for Jamberoo lies with its ability to either background or fatten steers for either the feedlot or premium domestic meat markets – given year in year out average weight gains of 0.8 kg per day or better,” Meares and Associates director Sam Meares said.

Jamberoo is for sale via Meares Online Auction on April 2-3.

Originally published as 30,000ha northern Queensland station hits the market