Five cattle stations for sale in Australia right now

Benmara Station, Creswell – NT

Benmara Station lies 345 linear kilometres north-east of Tennant Creek, in the Barkly Tablelands region of the Northern Territory. The station spans more than 451 hectares, fenced into approximately 20 paddocks and several more holding paddocks, with a homestead comprised of two residences, staff quarters and a kitchen.

The property’s water infrastructure is also “well-developed”, according to listing agents CBRE Agriculture, with 20 bores supplying 90 tanks and troughs and additional water provided by seasonal waterholes, including 19 dams, eight springs and several watercourses.

“Benmara Station represents a unique opportunity to acquire a large-scale, cattle-breeding property with significant potential for further development and income diversification,” CBRE Agriculture says.

Meka Station, Yalgoo – WA

Presented by Morgan Sudlow & Associates, the 365-hectare Meka Station is technically not just a cattle station, with infrastructure to support cattle and sheep.

The station comprises two outlying stations (totalling 40 paddocks and 95 sets of trap yards), two air-conditioned homesteads, a school building, a workshop and several sheds. Several more buildings dot the property, including “fully equipped donga facilities” and a 10-stand shearing shed.

Offered on a walk-in, walk-out basis, the sale includes a large number of livestock – 680 breeders, calves and weaners, 20 bulls and 300 mixed dorper sheep – an extensive plant and machinery list and a carbon contract.

The asking price is $7 million, plus carbon value.

Moroak and Goondooloo Stations, Flying Fox – NT

Another station – or, instead, stations – offering a carbon opportunity are Moroak and Goondooloo Stations in the Northern Territory’s Roper region. Spanning 233 hectares divided into 28 main paddocks, Moroak and Goondooloo are just over 400 linear kilometres from Darwin.

LAWD is representing the sale of the stations and says there is a “significant opportunity to acquire a well-established, large-scale breeding operation in an 845-millimetre annual rainfall region, further enhanced by an approved carbon project.”

Currently operating as a beef cattle breeding business, the properties are fitted with solar-powered pumps to circulate water via permanent groundwater bores, dams and additional waterholes and creeks.

Other infrastructure includes the main homestead, staff accommodation, a workshop, hangar, and airstrip, as well as a number of sheds, including a machinery shed and other general-use sheds.

Yoothapina Station, Meekatharra – WA

Another West Australian station offered by Morgan Sudlow & Associates, Yoothapina Station, sits about halfway between Perth and Karratha and less than a 15-minute drive from Meekatharra.

The 140-hectare property, which is connected to mains power and serviced by solar and mills, is currently destocked but is set up with the essentials: Machinery, storage and general purpose sheds, a workshop and old blacksmiths workshop and a set of cattle yards.

A four-bedroom homestead is also included in the sale, the asking price for which is $2.2 million.

Kalyeeda Station, Derby – WA

The 122,000-hectare Kalyeeda Station was created in the late 1980s, a sub-section of a much larger land lease broken up by the state government.

In the years since, the property, which lies 220 kilometres south-east of Derby and is bounded by the Fitzroy River to the north, has been fully fenced and now runs about 9,000 head of cattle.

Kalyeeda comprises two residences – one cottage, a 12-bed staff quarters, two cattle yards, and extensive plant and equipment. The property’s 39 troughs and the two houses are serviced by 20 bores; Farmbot remote sensing systems monitor each water site.