Farm Clearing Sales in New South Wales

Dubbo sits where the mixed farming country meets the western grazing runs, which means the sales we handle vary a lot. A dispersal near Gilgandra or Narromine is generally cropping gear: headers, bins, boomsprays, big tractors. Go west toward Nyngan and Bourke and it turns into stock and station country — yards, troughs, motorbikes, smaller horsepower. Down toward the Lachlan it changes again.

That matters when the catalogue is built. Lotting a sheep operation the way you would lot a cropping farm leaves money behind, because the buyers are different people looking for different things.

Gear does not have to be brought to Dubbo. Lots are catalogued and sold where they sit, and collection is arranged from there. For vendors further out, that is usually the difference between a sale being worth running and not — nobody wants to freight a farm's worth of machinery to a saleyard before finding out what it brings.

The reason to sell an on-farm clearing sale online is straightforward: a Queensland or Victorian buyer will bid on a good machine, but they will not drive nine hours on the chance of it. Online bidding puts them in the room. For the vendor that is a deeper pool on exactly the lots where depth matters most — the tractors, the header, the truck.

Winter cropping sets the calendar through most of the state. The window between harvest finishing and sowing starting is when buyers have both the time to look and a clear idea of what they need for next year. Sales run in that window generally do better than sales run into a busy paddock.

Seasonal conditions move it too. A wet year and a dry year produce very different rooms, and there is often more to be gained by shifting a sale a few weeks than by anything else on the list.

It starts with someone walking the place and taking stock of what is actually there. From that we can give you a realistic range, a view on when it should be sold, and a plan for how the shed and workshop get lotted. Nothing is committed at that point.