Productive Irrigated Farms for Sale – Colorado/Kansas Border
Where can I find productive irrigated farms for sale in the USA? Ask Cruickshank Realty. Right now, we have a new listing, the Melcher Irrigated Farm with 478.78 deeded acres. It’s in Holly, Colorado, which is east of Lamar along State Highway 89, just a few miles before the Kansas border.
Address: Holly, CO Powers County
Legal: NE 1/4 and W1/2 27, Township 255, Range 42 W
Acreage: 478.78 Deeded Acres
2021 Taxes: $1619.14
Price: $1.8 million
What is the Quality of the Soil?
Melcher Irrigated Farm for sale includes some of the highest producing capabilities in the area. In addition, the farm for sale gets accolades. It’s one of the cleanest noxious weed free farms in the area. Soils include 56.6% Richfield silt loam, 41.4% Ulysses silt loam, and 4% Colby silt loam. Slopes range from 0 to 3%.
What can I Grow?
Your crop yield will depend on the markets, your purposes, and, of course, the weather. Combining dry land and irrigated yields, records indicate the following crops:
Corn, 224.0 basis, 169 yield
Wheat, 202.5 basis, 70 yield
Grain Sorghum, .6 basis, 76 yield
Sunflowers, 4.6 basis, 723 yield
Water Sources for this SE Colorado Farm?
If you’re familiar with farm irrigation, you’ll be glad to know the details of the water system for Melcher Irrigated Farm. Sprinklers irrigate 372 acres and there are three irrigation wells. Permits pulled from the Southern High Plains Water District assist with operation full of irrigation wells.
Permit #17901-FP: 80 GPM Depth 560 feet
Permit #17906-FP: 85 GPM Depth 525 feet
Permit #17907-FP: 350 GPM + Depth 525 feet
An underground pipeline system connects all the wells into a central system. You’ll be happy to know that the 15 tower Valley sprinkler is GPS controlled. It’s efficient at 30 psi with six psi regulators. The engines are PSI engineered and run on natural gas. An 8.1 CI engine drives the sprinkler, the system booster pump, and the generator. The booster pump has an VFD. It also powers a nearby submergible irrigation pump.
Four-cylinder engine powers a second generator and submersible pump. The third well is a turbine pump with an 8.8 CI engine.
Power Sources
In addition to great access on Highway 89 and all-whether County maintained roads, the owners will be happy to have three-phase power on all three sides of the farm. All mineral rights convey with sale. Most importantly, owning one of the most productive irrigated farms in SE Colorado gives the owners the power of fertile ground.
Directions
From Holly, Colorado, go south on State Highway 89 for 13.5 miles. Highway 89 forms the eastern border of this productive irrigated ranch for sale. The north and south borders fall along County Road P and County Road R, respectively.
SE Colorado Brokers – Farm & Ranch
Cruikshank Realty, Inc. 20 S. Main Street, Lamar, CO sits in the agricultural hub of Prowers County. Head of the Farm & Ranch Division, Gene Cruikshank holds licenses for Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. Ask about investment acquisition, 1031 Exchanges, water rights, property management, and similar needs. Our team has been involved in some of the largest irrigated farmland and ranch land property sales in SE Colorado.
Cruikshank Realty, Inc.
20 S Main St, Lamar, CO 81052
Gene Cruikshank
(719) 336-7802