The Property is offered for LEASE, with the opportunity to purchase the herd of good quality Droughtmaster/Charolais cross cattle.
Location: Mt Oweenee Station is located approx 115km north from Charters Towers on the Lynd Highway and is 160km from Townsville. For cattlemen, the weekly saleyard selling centre in Charters Towers, numerous live export facilities and Townsville meatworks are all major attractions for this location. Triple roadtrain rated bitumen highway.
Area & Tenure: 39,340 ha (97,209 acres), Freehold.
Country: The property is hilly, fenced into 10 main paddocks, 14 smaller / holding / weaner paddocks and approx 24km of laneways, one of which runs the entire length of the property, adjacent to the main road. Though hilly the placement of waters, fencing, holding paddocks and laneways has made mustering a cost effective, straight-forward exercise with minimum staff requirement.
Mt Oweenee is timbered with Narrow & Silverleaf Ironbark, Box, Blue Gum, Moreton Bay, Teatree, Wattles and an understory of native shrubs with pastures species consisting of Black Spear, Golden Beard, Kangaroo, small areas of Buffel, and some Urachloa on flats and around dams. Significantly there is a large and established body of Seca and Verano Stylo's, due to an extensive seeding and spelling programme in the early 2000's. It cannot be emphasised enough, how much the volume of Stylo has lifted the production of Mt. Oweenee.Water is a feature, with 64 permanent dams, pipeline, 24 or more troughs and countless seasonal creeks for much of the year.
Infrastructure: Mt. Oweenee has 3 houses, Staff quarters and numerous large sheds.
The station also has Telstra mobile service over most of the property as well as UHF repeater tower, allowing UHF communication access extending over multiple properties in the area. The property has 2 sets of steel yards with loading ramps, undercover branding facilities and race drafts.
Carrying capacity:
The owners consider 3000 head (LSU, 400kg animal) to be a comfortable year-round average stocking rate for the entire property.
The deliberate development strategy of many paddocks, numerous permanent waters and a stylo seeding programme is paying handsome dividends. With a stocking rate philosophy of matching stocking rate to carrying capacity, of paddock rotation and regular pasture spelling the owners have been able to straddle many 'tight' seasons without damage to the property. Mt. Oweenee has been exemplary with regards to the condition of pasture & groundcover. Additionally, the focus on weed control has resulted in a very tidy property.
Lease and Cattle details:
The entirety of Mt Oweenee Stn (39340 ha, 97209 acres) is not for lease. The Lessee will have the balance 35540 ha of the property and the full use of one house, staff quarters, most sheds, cattle yards (2) and the general run of the property. A conservative "year-round" stocking rate (owners estimate) for the combined lease country is 2,700 LSU (400kg equivalent). Stocking numbers will vary with seasonal conditions.
The lease is for a term of 3 years, with an option to renew upon mutual agreement of lessee & landholder.
Cattle Herd for sale:
Mt. Oweenee was originally purchased in 1999 as a breeder block, but with extensive improvements, the owners have been able to take advantage many varied markets.
The current herd of cattle are basically Droughtmaster/Charolais cross, which were originally based off a Brahman herd. The herd is quiet, and a pleasure to muster and handle in the paddock and yards.
The preferred option is for the lessee to purchase the entire breeding herd, progeny, female followers and herd Bulls currently running on Mt. Oweenee. Leasing, without the herd purchase, may be considered.
The cattle are best described as a young, well educated, good quality, crossbred breed herd initially bred from a Brahman based herd purchased with the property in 1999. This is a control mated herd with females are culled on temperament, pregnancy status and age (ie. over 10yrs). The subsequent introduction of Droughtmaster and Charolais bulls for many years has resulted in an attractive crossbred herd.
Complete breeder herd, progeny, bulls (Approx 1900 breeders and all progeny (approx 840 calves, numbers TBC by end April), 500 No.4 heifers, Approx 150 No 4 steers & Bulls as required)
Attractive, young, quiet, crossbred herd (Droughtmaster/Charolais cross.
The EOI Process: The EOI will be a 2-stage process with the most attractive offers, from Stage 1, making it through to Stage 2. Stage 2 will include lease contract, property and herd inspections, negotiations and possible contract signing. It is anticipated to have a successful transaction implemented by late May. EOI and Lease details are only available from the Agents.
