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Finney Land and Livestock Ranch:
SOLD!
6,226 +/- acres
Thomas & Hooker Counties, Nebraska
South of Seneca. Excellent rangeland crossfenced with pipeline water, pivot irrigation, and excellent improvements. Can be split into smaller parcels.
LOCATION:
5 miles south of Seneca, Nebraska, on major county road. Seneca is 11 miles east of Mullen and 15 miles west of Thedford on Highway 2. Thedford is 67 miles north of North Platte, NE and I-80 on Highway 83. Highway 2 is labeled the "Sandhills Journey Scenic Byway" and traverses 272 miles through the beautiful Nebraska Sandhills from Grand Island to Alliance. The late Charles Kuralt called Nebraska's Highway 2 one of America's 10 most beautiful highways. More information available at: sandhillsjourney.com
and visitnebraska.org.
LAND USE:
Seneca Unit:
1,751.91 deeded acres of exceptional Sandhill rangeland cross fenced into 5 pastures with water provided by electric submersible pump servicing 7 tank sites supplemented by 2 windmills. 1 additional tank will be installed in 2010 per NRCS contract. Two miles of Highway 2 frontage with loading corrals.
Headquarters Unit:
4,474.49 deeded acres
160 acres pivot irrigated acres hay or cropland
4,269 acres rangeland crossfenced into 13 pastures with water provided by pipe line servicing 14 tank sites supplemented with 7 windmills
22 acres of mature and newly planted tree shelter belts
23 acres homesite, improvements, corrals, and lots
Note: The two tracts are only one mile apart.
Buyers are encouraged to submit offers on units or parcels of units.
IMPROVEMENTS:
Home was built in 1981 and has been extensively remodeled in 2009 with new open floor plan. The 1440 square feet on the main level has a large kitchen with quartz counter tops and breakfast bar, dining room, living room, family room, master bedroom with new master bath with oversized walk-in shower, granite
counter tops and heated floor, guest room, 2 1/2 baths, laundry & mud room and attached single car garage.
The finished walk-out basement has a large family/recreational room, 2 bedrooms, full bath, apartment size kitchen, and a new pellet heating stove. *Due to a recent hail storm the sellers received an insurance settlement and will credit the buyer with $20,000 to make necessary repairs.
OTHER BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS:
- Horse Barn with tack room addition: 38' x 38'
- Butler steel shop building: 85' x 36' with partial concrete floor
- Steel calving barn: 70' x 30' with steel pens
- Open front machinery shed: 40' x 25' with 4 bays
- Salt shed: 40' x 24' with 2 garage doors
- Welker overhead cake bin
- Arena: 140' x 250' with calf chute
- Round Pen: 120' diameter
PERSONAL PROPERTY (Included In Sale)
- All permanently attached steel corral panels and hung gates
- Cattle working chute with headgate and palpation cage
- 4 horse hot walker
- All fuel barrels
- 26 ton Welker overhead cake bin
- 5 ton bulk grain bin
- Steel pens in calving barn
- Roping chute in arena
- All irrigation equipment & accessories
- All appliances in home-all new in 2009: range, refrigerator, dishwasher, microwave, washer & dryer, hot water heater. Pellet stove, Wildblue satellite internet equipment
Optional Personal Property available at additional expense:
- 2009 hay crop, shop tools, equipment, etc.
CARRYING CAPACITY & HAY:
Owner rates the ranch at 350 cows year around plus bulls and replacement heifers. Pivot irrigated cropland has 160 acres of alfalfa with normally 3 cuttings totaling 5-7 ton per acre. Maps show 154.3 acres under pivot system but end gun irrigated additional 6 acres.
IRRIGATION: Valley low pressure system with drop nozzles. Isuzu diesel power unit about 8 years old with 5,680 hours, 1100 gpm well drilled in 1974 with pumping depth of 135' and static water depth of 114'. Valley system new in 1974 but totally upgraded in 1986. New gearboxes 3 years ago.
BROKER COMMENTS: Finney Land & Livestock Ranch is located in the central part of the Sandhills Region which covers approximately 19,300 square miles in Nebraska. The Sandhills is one of the largest grass-stabilized dune regions in the world. The ridges of sand now held in place by grasses were formed by wind erosion approximately 8,000 years ago. This region is part of the tall grass prairie with a combination of cool and warm season grasses and a wide array of wild flowers. Terrain varies in the Sandhills with this ranch having mostly rolling hills and some big ridges of hills with big hardland flats. The area has amazing water resources with the saturated depth of the Ogallala Aquifer being 600-800 feet!
I am blessed to help a large number of out-of-state buyers relocate their families and cattle operations to the Nebraska Sandhills. After a year in Nebraska, almost a unanimous comment by these new Sandhill cattlemen is: "I did not know ranching could be so easy….no rocks, no wolves or bears, no BLM, mild winters plus my great neighbors!" Mullen and Thedford are very friendly ranch communities providing all services with North Platte offering a regional airport, major hospital, and large retail chain stores.
The Finney Land & Livestock Ranch is located in a preferred area of the Central Sandhills with
"hard" rolling hills; great grass diversity with warm and cool season grasses; consistent annual rainfall, and perhaps most importantly; great neighbors. This is a very close knit neighborhood with brandings being the social events of the Spring.
The immediate area is known for its "range & cake" operations but the Finney Land & Livestock Ranch is unique with the pivot irrigated hayland adding diversity to the cattle or horse enterprise.
Pride of ownership is on display everywhere in the form of exceptional fences, water development, well managed rangeland using a planned rotation made possible by the extensive cross-fencing and pipeline water, well maintained headquarters, mature and newly planted tree shelter belts, and a newly remodeled home with underground lawn sprinkler system.
For the outdoor enthusiast this area is special with the following:
- Hunting: mule and whitetail deer, grouse & prairie chicken, waterfowl, wild turkey, coyotes
- Golf: 9 hole municipal courses in Mullen and Thedford plus the exclusive Sand Hills Golf Course and the Dismal River Golf Club
- Fishing: rivers, private ponds, Merritt Reservoir, refuge lakes
- Public Access:
Halsey Nebraska National Forest (142,000 acres)
Valentine National Wildlife Refuge (19,131 acres)
Samuel McKelvie National Forest (115,703 acres)
Merritt Reservoir State Recreation Area (9,053 acres with lake being 2,900 acres)
Richard Dawson, Broker
Asking Price: $2,910,000
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For more information contact Richard and Barbara Dawson at (800) 785-2528 or e-mail.
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