, Northwest of Etter, TX - Dallam County

This prime irrigated farm with strong water is located in a very competitive area of the Texas Panhandle. Sitting on 3 ½ miles of highway frontage, this farm is developed for maximum efficiency in the production of corn, cotton, silage, and wheat, has a set of preconditioning pens, two barns and a nice residence. The farm totals

3 ½ sections and is equipped as follows:

Sections 25 & 26 -

Equipped with two Zimmatic and one Reinke ¼ mile sprinklers, all nozzled at 600 g.p.m. each, with drops on standard spacing and standard tires and one Zimmatic sprinkler nozzled for 1,800 g.p.m with long drops spaced on 60” centers, standard tires and covering 400 acres. Owner states that these sprinklers were nozzled down last year for cotton production thereby reducing engine speed and fuel consumption. One irrigation well in the northeast corner of section 25 is pooled with wells on the adjacent section 26 allowing all wells to pump to all sprinklers on these two sections. Owner states that three of the wells on section 26 are used in the 400 acre sprinkler with the remaining two wells used to pressure two of the three ¼ mile sprinklers at one time.

Electricity is furnished to the sprinklers from phase converters running on single-phase electricity and the irrigation water is pumped with turbine pumps powered by natural gas engines.

Situated in the area of the southeast ¼ of section 25 and the southwest ¼ of section 26 is a 3 bedroom, two bath residence with painted wood siding, a large double car garage and an all-weather road from the highway to the residence and to the pens.

In the same area there is a 60’ x 96’ Morton metal (with wood-framing) barn with ½ concrete/ ½ dirt floor (for equipment storage), office, bathroom, loft area (for storage), a shop area and a canvas curtain separating the concrete and dirt areas for warmth in the winter time.

There is also a relatively new 60’ x 61’ Morton metal (with wood-framing) barn with dirt floor in the area near the residence (used primarily for equipment storage).

The perimeter of sections 25 & 26 is fenced with barbed wire and steel/cedar post with hot wire used for individual pastures.

Located on the native grass in the same area of the property with the residence and two barns is a set of steel working and preconditioning pens with an enclosed processing barn with overhead door for easy access, walk door , C & S hydraulic chute, C & S circular crowding tub, medicine room with concrete floor and heated water , a double, permanent loading /unloading chute with two levels, approximately 1000 feet of concrete bunk (some with concrete apron on bunks), heated water in the pens and metal wind-breaks. Water to the grass traps/pastures (2), the residence, one barn and the cattle pens is supplied by two domestic wells equipped with submersible electric motors, pumps and control panels and tied together with underground pipe.

There is also a 9’ x 20’ (approx.) above-ground, 20,000lb. (approx.) livestock scale, an above-ground, cone-bottomed, metal supplement bin (approx. 1800 bushel) with auger and an ensilage pit situated south of the pens which will hold approximately 3600 tons of silage.

West ½ of Section 7 & all of Section 8 -

This farm is equipped with a Reinke sprinkler nozzled for 2,000 g.p.m. covering 360 acres and a second Reinke sprinkler nozzled for 2,100 g.p.m. covering 370 acres. Each sprinkler is spaced on 60” centers with long drops and standard tires.

There are four irrigation wells in use on section 8 and they are pooled with two irrigation wells on the west ½ of Section 7 by high pressure underground pipe.

The owner states that he uses three of the six wells in one sprinkler and three in the other, running both sprinklers at the same time.

There is a set of steel shipping pens with metal wind-breaks located just off of Hwy 297 in the area of the southeast corner of section 8 and the southwest corner of the west ½ of section 7 with a permanent, single deck loading/unloading chute and water piped in PVC pipe from a domestic well (equipped with a submersible electric motor, pump and control panel) located in the northwest corner of section 8.

There is permanent barbed wire and steel post fencing along Hwy 297 on the south side of the west ½ of section 7 and section 8.

In summary, the well depths in this area are deep (should be confirmed by the water district) which should add premium value over an extended period of time. Advantages of location include highway frontage, 3 miles from the Sunray Coop elevator at Coldwater, six miles from two large feedlots in either direction with highway frontage leading to Dalhart to the west and Hwy 287 to the east for easy access to and from the property.