A prime western NSW grazing block just listed for sale is ideally located to serve as a breeding outstation for a more intensive mixed farming operation further east.
The property, “Boonery”, is situated 32 kilometres south of Brewarrina on the sealed main road to Nyngan (called Arthur Hall VC Way), on the Neranghi-Bogan Creek floodplain.
It has had only three owners since being drawn as a block off Charlton Station in 1953 by Bill Simmons, who brought his family up from Bathurst to make a new home.
Ownership passed in due course to his daughter Thea and her husband Michael Coleman and their family who held the property until 2003.
The present owner, Rupert Steel, bought “Boonery” in 2008 from Chandler and Brown, and is selling now to relocate to a retirement block near Manilla.
He has listed the property for private sale with Phillip Wallace of Landmark Harcourts Nyngan, and it is attracting keen local and outside interest at its asking price of $2.14 million.
Comprising 6452 hectares (15,942ac), “Boonery” is a productive grazing property of generally level grey to black self-mulching soils with an area of lighter red soil adjacent to the road. Much of the country is subject to beneficial flooding, providing seasonal livestock trading and agistment opportunities, while the red country offers a secure flood refuge, and responds quickly to rain.
The property is timbered by coolabah, box and belah plus areas of dogwood and lignum. It is mostly semi-open grazing country, but with denser areas of seedling regrowth at the eastern end.
“Boonery” is intersected by the Neranghi-Bogan Creek and serviced also by a 12km pipeline from the Bogan River.
Pastures are a productive mix of neverfail, coolah, buffel, goathead and winter herbages, augmented by fodder crops grown on about 215ha of cultivation country.
Although rated at a carrying capacity of 3666 DSE, and carrying a mix of sheep and Droughtmaster cattle, the property has a history of running higher numbers when seasonal conditions allow.
Water is a feature of “Boonery”, which is intersected by the Neranghi-Bogan Creek and serviced also by a 12km pipeline from the Bogan River, which reticulates to paddock tank/trough installations.
A five megalitre stock and domestic licence underpins the river supply, which is delivered via a Grundfos CR5 pump through 63mm pipeline to storage tanks of 330,000 litre capacity.
Ground tanks provide further water sources, and the troughs are so located that no stock need to walk further than 1.5km to water. A four-bedroom homestead comes with enclosed verandahs, ceiling fans and air conditioning, an adjacent coolroom and citrus orchard.
Working improvements include a four-stand shearing shed with steel sheep yards and Maclodge hydraulic woolpress (given in), storage and machinery shedding and steel cattle yards.
The cattle yards incorporate an RPM crush, round yard, race and loading ramp, and can handle up to 400 head. The property is subdivided into 10 main paddocks plus holding paddocks.