Dunmore Station in Manilla, NSW on the market
Dunmore Station, a 3,800-hectare rural property at Manilla in north-west NSW with a six-bedroom 1902 Federation era homestead, is going to auction on December 16.
Its been listed with $5 million plus hopes by the Breckwoldt family, who bought it from the Stokes family. It was 1990 when Harry M. Miller and his ex-wife, Wendy, sold the farm. Miller, a theatrical entrepreneur, bought the Manilla property in the 1970s and with the purchase of pedigree German Simmental cattle from New Zealand made Dunmore the largest producer of the breed in Australia.
Situated at Halls Creek, 70 kilometres from Tamworth, Dunmore has five kilometres of river frontage on the Namoi, with a carrying capacity of 18,000 dry-sheep equivalent, which has been steady for decades.
It’s capable of being developed into a well-diversified and productive property. It has cropping land, irrigation and a range of grazing lands running from valley floors, to steeper hill country. It comprises about one-third cropping country, one-third valley country and one-third hill grazing.
“Over $1 million spent on infrastructure since 2004,” the marketing brochure says, mainly in irrigation and water reticulation plus fencing.
Dunmore is being marketed through Landmark Harcourts agents Charlie Hart and Ken Tydd.
It is first to be offered as a whole, and if not sold it will be offered as three blocks: Dunmore, Suttors and Horsely.
The property was established in 1902 by Mungo Park, with Miller only the second of the families to have lived and worked it. Miller unsuccessfully tried in the late 1980s to sell it with a leaseback.
According to the current listings agents its current operation has “an excellent cash flow business that is now well-established with a continuing high profile client.” It says this “business began last July on a trial basis and Dunmore has now been incorporated fully into a large-scale backgrounding program and shares an excellent relationship with its strategic business alliance”.
Under the program up to 1,860 cattle are fattened at average rates of up to 1.5 kilograms per day during spring and summer on pasture and lick alone with similar dryland crop-assisted gains during winter.
