Access to water seems to be a critical component of some land sales in September and October, particularly out West. One parcel in Cheyenne County, for instance, boasted a 570 GPM water well, “not in the LEMA [local access management area],” and it sold for nearly double the price of comparative parcels in the region.

Graham County. The 560-acre B Bar B Ranch, just south of Nicodemus, Kan., with the South Fork Solomon River running through it, was sold at auction Oct. 22. The ground sold in two tracts. Tract 1 was 170 acres of irrigated circle and Conservation Reserve Program corners, including the seven-tower pivot system; a water right for 163 acre-feet at 700 gallons per minute not located in the LEMA; and a producing oil well, with access to Highway 18. It sold for $4,600 per acre. Tract 2 was 380 acres of river bottom ground, all pasture and wildlife habitat, which sold for $6,400 per acre. B Bar B Ranch LLP was the seller. Farm & Ranch Realty Inc. Colby, Kan., handled the sale.

Greeley County. The 2,835-acre historic Pringle Ranch LLC, east of Tribune, Kan., with White Woman Creek running through the majority of it, sold at auction in eight tracts on Oct. 18. Tract 1 was 160 acres of dryland, and it sold for $3,050, per acre. Tract 2 was 160 acres of dryland, and it sold for $2,400 per acre. Tract 3 was 105 acres of grassland and 60 acres of dryland, and it sold for $1,800 per acre. Tract 4 was 140 acres of dryland, and it sold for $2,350 per acre. Tract 5 was 475 acres of dryland and grassland, with several structures and it sold for $1,450 per acre. Tract 6 was 475 acres of grassland that sold for $1,250 per acre. Tract 7 was 121 acres of grassland and 39 acres of dryland, and it sold for $1,200 per acre. Tract 8 included 1,000 acres of grassland, 96 acres of cropland, and livestock sorting pens, handling facilities and a livestock shed, and it sold for $1,550 per acre. Pringle Ranch Inc. was the seller. Farm & Ranch Realty Inc., Colby, Kan., handled the sale.

Cheyenne County. About 1,620 acres of high-quality pasture and irrigated and dryland farm ground along the Republican River southwest of St. Francis, in Cheyenne County, sold in five tracts at auction Oct. 15. Tract 1 was 135 acres of irrigated circle, including 24 acres of dryland corners, with a water right permitted for 223 acre-feet at 570 gallons per minute on Tract 2, but in perpetual easement to Tract 1, and not within the LEMA. Tract 1 also included a seven-tower Valley pivot, and it sold for $5,100 per acre. Tract 2 was 312 acres of grass pasture and sold for $950 per acre. Tract 3 was about 405 acres of grass pasture, and it sold for $1,150 per acre. Tract 4 was about 314 acres of pasture that sold for $1,250. Tract 5 was about 450 acres total, including 164 acres of dryland and 280 acres of grass pasture, and it sold for $1,250 per acre. The seller was the Douthit Trusts. Farm & Ranch Realty handled the sales.

Saline County. About 146 acres of cropland, located about 7 miles southwest of Salina, Kan., was sold at auction Oct. 11. Tract 1 was 76 acres, and it sold for $3,618 per acre. Tract 2 was 70 acres, and it sold for $4,071 per acre. The sellers were Richard and Magda Carlson. Midwest Land & Home, Washington, Kan., handled the sale.

Marshall and Washington counties, and Gage County, Neb. A multi-county land auction by Bluhm Farms Inc., and the Bluhm Family Trust, was held Oct. 10. Tract 1, 108 acres of Marshall County cropland 8 miles north of Bremen, Kan., sold for $7,361 per acre. Tract 2, 108 acres of Washington County cropland 12 miles northeast of Hanover, Kan., sold for $6,200 per acre. And Tract 3, 160 acres of Gage County cropland 5 miles southwest of Odell, Neb., sold for $7,031 per acre. Midwest Land & Home handled the sale.

Brown County. A tract of 73 acres of cropland south of Robinson, Kan., sold at auction Oct. 8 for $11,475 per acre. The seller was the Eva Cox Trust. Midwest Land & Home handled the sale.

Scott County. About 420 acres of Scott County land, including a 3,000-head-capacity grow yard, sold in three tracts at auction Oct. 8. The adjoining tracts were about 7 miles northeast of Scott City, Kan. Tract 1 was 200 acres of irrigated cropland, minus the center pivot, and it sold for $2,200 per acre. Tract 2, which was about 154 acres of excellent dryland sold, for $2,300 per acre. Tract 3 was the 60-acre grow yard with 27 pens, a concrete cattle working facility, scales, a loadout chute and more equipment. It included an appropriation of 41 acre-feet of water rights, with one stock water well and one domestic well. It sold for a total of $200,000. The sellers were Gwen Huck et. al. The sale was handled by Farm & Ranch Realty Inc., Colby, Kan.

Marshall County. About 146 acres of crop land three miles northwest of Marysville, Kan., sold in two tracts at auction Oct. 4. Tract 1 was 39.5 acres of cropland and sold for $8,100 per acre. Tract 2 was about 106 acres of cropland and sold for $6,882 per acre. The sellers were Hover & Strickler Hiers. The sale was handled by Midwest Land & Home, Washington, Kan.

Mitchell, Russell, Barton and Hodgeman counties. A multi-county land sale by the Marilyn A. Redetzke Revocable Trust, occurred Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. Tract 1, in Mitchell County, was 80 acres of dryland, and sold for $3,750 per acre. Tract 2, 160 acres of dryland in Russell County, sold for $2,000 per acre. Tract 3, 80 acres of dryland, sold for $2,500 per acre. Tract 4, 160 acres of dryland in Hodgeman County, sold for $2,575 per acre. The sale was handled by Carr Auction & Real Estate Inc., Larned, Kan.

McPherson County. About 163 acres of farm ground with tremendous soil quality and ideal access to I-135 and U.S. Highway 56, sold at auction July 17. The tract sold for $5,825 per acre. The seller was the Elmer and Virginia Kaufman Trust. Farmers National Co. handled the sale.

Grant County. A quarter-section of a mix of CRP and grassland on the southeast corner of Ulysses, Kan., next to the golf course, sold at auction May 7 for $1,650 per acre. The seller was Corley Farms LC. Farmers National Co. handled the sale.

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