Wongawol, Wiluna WA 6646

Exceptional pastoral opportunity

The Wongawol-Carnegie Aggregation present as a rare opportunity to secure an expansive area of tightly held pastoral grazing country. The properties have gained a reputation for consistent production and the ability to maintain stock numbers through the variations of seasons.
One of the often overlooked but in the current economic climate very strong features of this country is its ability to produce with relatively low inputs. Cattle on this country require no mineral supplements, the rangelands require no fertilizer and there are virtually no parasites, the country is tick free, there are no internal parasite infestations and other than an annual Botulism vaccine and an eartag the only essential cost to keep cattle alive, healthy and breeding is maintaining the water supplies.
The properties are located on the 26th parallel and rainfall is generally influenced by the tropical weather patterns with tropical lows becoming rain bearing depressions as they move inland and south.
Land systems on the aggregation vary from lake system grazing to stoney hills with everything in between. The property has Lake Carnegie as much of its eastern and central boundary and is unfenced onto the lake and expanses of vacant crown land to the north east, other significant lake systems are Lake Buchanan, Lake Burnside and Linke Lakes. The property features a myriad of fresh water drainage systems feeding into the various lakes many of which have large semi permanent pools with the flood plains interspersed with claypans and billabongs. There are some quite significant creek systems lined with River gums with an understory of buffel, birdwood and native grasses.
The plains grazing has two distinct land systems, there are the lake bank and flood systems plains with saltbush, bluebush and other high value herbage and there are the lighter grass covered plains some of which is populated with Roebourne Plains grass, other native grasses and some non indigenous species. Timber on the property predominantly comprises Mulga, Acacias and Eucalypts with other associated shrublands.
Underground water is a feature of the property with 160 operational bores or wells, most of the water is very shallow and almost all is very good quality and has a good supply. The majority of the bores are serviced by submersible solar pumps with some windmills remaining in use. Almost all water points have tank storage with troughs, 49 water points have some yard infrastructure, 22 are adequate to handle and process cattle and 27 are designed for trapping. The sale includes significant portable yards with a full portable race with crush and loading ramp mounted on a goose neck trailer enabling complete processing at nearly all locations.
The cattle on the Wongawol/Carnegie Aggregation are a composite breed of Shorthorn, Red Angus and Droughtmaster. The owners run a nucleus herd of high-quality cows at their southern property and use selected stud bulls of each breed to produce bulls of the temperament and type they require on the station, a high priority is put on fertility and growth rates. A regular supply of young bulls are introduced to the property annually and no micky bulls are used. The breeding program has achieved a significant lift in weight gains and finished carcass weights with more than a 10% increase in the last 10 years.
The production has been reasonably consistent over a long period of time with around 5,000 being cows, replacement heifers and bulls returned to the rangelands and 4,000 plus or minus trucked each year.
Mustering is done as a single round muster using helicopters and ground crew.
Being sold as a going concern with around 5,000 breeders plus followers.