The family of five will say "a sad goodbye" to the 2000 acre Bungowannah property in July they have called home for 21 years.

And the first goodbye will happen on Friday when they disperse their 470 head of cattle.

The orthopaedic surgeon said the property is a "special part of the world" and has the potential to be "magnificently productive" in the right hands.

"It has been a great place for Jane and I to bring up our kids but it really needs a full time farmer now," Dr Kirwan said.

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"It is one thing to be part time but it is another to be absent and I have more and more work in town.

"It is a big place, a special place, and in the hands of the right people it will be magnificently productive.

"The people who have bought it are exactly that and they are local so we are pleased about that.

''Jane and I are just thrilled there is a young couple who are locals who are passionate about this place."

The couple started off with a commercial Angus cow and calf operation in 1998, spent three years with an Angus stud before dispersing the stud back into a cow calf breeding operation.

"It was a lousy business but a great hobby," Dr Kirwan said.

"You really have to be in the stud business for 20 years for it to be a viable business but we sort of got a lot of out that and really put a lot back into the commercial herd anyway.

"Artificially inseminating heifers has been a key part of improving the genetics of the commercial herd.

"And this dispersal is a great opportunity for people to restock and get started buying well bred cattle."

Mrs Kirwan said saying goodbye to the cattle will also be a sad day.

"They are beautiful and we have been feeding them for seven months now and they all have personalities," she said.

"In fact one of our boys rides one of them while she is eating - she wouldn't let you near her if she wasn't.

"We know all the little calves as well we have known them from when they dropped in the dust in late December January and it will be sad saying goodbye to them.".

Kensal Green will offer 150 Angus, Angus/Shorthorn and Shorthorn cows and calves, 220 Angus, Angus/Shorthorn and Shorthorn PTIC (pregnancy tested in calf) cows and 100 Angus and Angus/Shorthorn unjoined heifer weaners 10-12 months.

Brett Shea of Elders Albury said the dispersal was a "great opportunity to buy some classed in females".

The dispersal will happen at 11am on Friday on auctionsplus.com.au

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