There’s been a lot of buying and selling among some big properties in WA in the past week.
A remote 165,000 hectare (407,000 acre) outback station has hit the market Western Australia’s Upper Gascoyne, about 340 km inland of Carnarvon.
Dairy Creek Station is being offered bare of plant and livestock.
Also, offers more than $26 million will be considered for further negotiation for the Camp family’s Kalyeeda station in the West Kimberley.
This 122,000ha (301,468 acre) holding is 360km east of Broome and is on the south side of the Fitzroy River, which makes up its northern boundary.
The property has been in the hands of Peter Camp and his late wife Cheryl for the past 30 years.
In the meantime, prominent WA sheep and grain producer John Nicoletti has sold his Great Southern cropping and sheep aggregation Connawarrie, at Mount Sheridan north of Newdegate.
It is understood the 11,503ha (28,425 acre) property sold for $35 million through an off-market deal to five farming families.
Mr Nicoletti said he had owned the property for the past four years, initially buying it as an investment.
But he said when the opportunity came up earlier this year for him to buy farming land near Merredin, he had to dispose of some land and Connawarrie was put up for sale.
Back to Dairy Creek Station, which has no price listed but is being sold through an expressions of interest campaign by Raine and Horne.
Agents suggest the isolated station is an opportunity to buy a standalone cattle enterprise in a prime pastoral region.
The station borders the Geeneroo Creek and is said to be well equipped with essential infrastructure, “ensuring a seamless transition for new owners”.
It has about 35 water points, predominantly solar-equipped, supplemented by dams and windmills.
The station has sundry shedding including a workshop and a hay shed, repurposed from a former shearing shed plus three sets of cattle yards.
The property operates on a solar power system with long-life batteries, supported by a backup generator.
It has a three-bedroom main brick home, a second one-bedroom stone home and a three-bedroom workers’ quarters.
Further north to the Camp family’s Kalyeeda station in the West Kimberley which the family bought in 1995 after a long stint working on stations in the Kimberleys, NT and Queensland.
“There was nothing on Kalyeeda when we bought it,” Mr Camp said.
“We had a contract mustering business and part payment was in livestock, which is how we got our herd started – initially with Brahmans and then later with Droughtmasters.
“We spent a good five years building up cattle numbers, fencing and putting in other key infrastructure, such as yards and holding pens, before we could live there.”
Mr Camp said Kalyeeda had been a thriving cattle station in the 1950s and 1960s, but it was quite run down when they bought it.
“It was very basic and we had a lot of fencing to repair,” he said.
“And we had to build a house and other infrastructure.”
Today Kalyeeda supports a herd of about 9000-head of Droughtmasters and these can be included in the sale of the property.
News source: https://www.farmonline.com.au/story/8929812/property-sales-heat-up-in-was-pastoral-region-stations-sale/
