Satchell family to sell massive Holbrook farm Yambla Station

A Southern NSW farming family has listed its mighty 2654ha Riverina station for sale, offering it to the market for the first time in nearly 40 years.

An enormous NSW Riverina pastoral property has hit the market with another notable farming family calling time on its ventures.

The Satchell family is selling its 2654ha Yambla Station, located 27km south of Holbrook, ending a 36-year tenure at the renowned property.

Yambla Station is expected to command offers worth more than $55 million due to its carrying capacity in excess of 30,000 dry sheep equivalent.

Owned in a family partnership by Hugh, John and Rosemary Satchell since 1987, the family has run an expansive enterprise running a Mumblebone merino flock and Coffin Creek Angus herd alongside a cropping rotation in recent years.

The family has run 9500 Merino ewes crossed with Dorset rams and followers, 150 breeding cows and 250 backgrounding cattle as part of its operations.

Across Yambla Station as a whole, the estimated total carrying capacity ranges from 30,000 to 32,000 dry sheep equivalent.

Yambla Station has been owned by the Satchell family for nearly 40 years.

Inglis Rural Property selling agent Sam Triggs is handling the sale and said it offered rare size and scale for the NSW eastern Riverina.

“Yambla Station is one of the largest pastoral and cropping enterprises to be offered to the market in the venerated Eastern Riverina in recent times,” he said.

“Offerings of the calibre of Yambla Station, boasting scale, high percentage of established pastures and turnkey enterprise are seldom offered to the market.

“Yambla Station has been continually developed over the last 36 years under the single ownership.”

The station comprises a combination of well-drained heavy red and brown loams ranging to granite soils in the steeper country.

A large portion of the country is sown to perennial pastures with stocking rates ranging from 10 dry sheep equivalent per hectare to 20 in peak growth periods.

Across Yambla Station as a whole the estimated carrying capacity ranges from 30,000 to 32,000 dry sheep equivalent.

Native pastures comprise microlaena, danthonia and themeda species interspersed with a substantial sub-clover base across 1511ha.

Improved pastures span 691ha and comprise a mixture of Phalaris, rye-grass, chicory, plantain and sub clover.

A rotation of triticale, wheat, oats and Italian rye-grass has been used to aid in cleaning up paddocks before being sown down to perennial pastures.

There is currently 400ha sown down to oats, triticale and rye-grass as fodder crops.

In 1989, the Satchell family built the five-bedroom homestead which stands today. Inside there are two bathrooms, an open-plan kitchen and multiple living areas.

There is also a second significant, fully renovated four-bedroom residence with veranda, deck and garage.

The five-bedroom home at Yambla Station.

The property is estimated to receive average annual rainfall about 800mm. Water is supplied from a solar-powered pump on the permanent spring-fed Daly Creek plus a large network of 51 surface dams, which are primarily spring fed.

Existing infrastructure includes a five-stand raised-board shearing shed, undercover sheep yards, cattle yards, containment yards, two machinery sheds, two workshops and one large hay shed.

The expressions of interest sales campaign for Yambla Station ends on November 16.

The listing of the Yambla Station for sale comes after a number of other major eastern Riverina farms have hit the market.

This spring the $40 million 1643ha Wantagong station is for sale by the Shaw family, while Nuffield scholar Murray Scholz and his wife Emma are selling their Culcairn farms, the 1420ha Dunoon Aggregation, for more than $26 million.