PROPERTY DESCRIPTION

This exciting new offer is the southern portion of the larger Otero County Irrigated Farm. This 159± acre irrigated farm and feedlot and includes a 4-bedroom, 2-bath home with a wrap-around porch, mature landscaping, and a finished basement. Designed for cattle and hay operations, it features an 800-head feedlot, pipe roping arena, tack shed, irrigated grass trap, grain bins, a 120' x 65' hay shed (2023), calving barn, small platform scale, and 2,040 sf shop. The feedlot includes six pens, auto waterers, a hydraulic chute, cattle scales, and a semi-loadout. The South Farm includes 100 pivot-irrigated acres, a 10-acre-foot collection pond, and 120 Otero Canal shares. Catlin shares can be leased from the Division of Wildlife and delivered through the Catlin head gate #193. Re-seeded to alfalfa in 2024, this turn-key irrigated farm, home, and grow yard is located on a paved road in the Swink School District.

DETAILS

Home Features

• Home, farmstead, and feedlot = approx. 20 acres
•  2,140 sf home includes 4 bedrooms, two bathrooms and a finished basement.
•  The house has cedar siding with a 12’ wide wrap-around porch on three sides
•  The house has central air, mature landscape and an automatic sprinkler system for the yard
•  Located directing off from County Road 24
•  Swink School District
• o Farmstead includes:
•  120x65 three-sided hay barn, constructed in 2023
•  120 x 220 pipe roping arena with return alley, holding pens, and catch pen
•  Metal sided 360 sf tack shed with electricity
•  1,480 sf calving barn
•  3 horse/cattle pens
•  4 acres irrigated grass trap that is accessible to the fields
•  2,040 sf metal equipment shed with electricity and concrete floor
•  500 bu Hopper grain bin with electricity
•  5,000 bu grain bin with supporting augers with electricity
•  Small platform scales and scale house
•  16’ x 8’ wood-sided storage shed with electricity
•  The south farm is fully fenced
• o Feedlot includes:
•  800 head capacity, divided among six pens
•  Pipe construction
•  Concrete bunks
•  Tire and concrete water tanks on automatic floats
•  Adjudicated well that is rated at 15 gal/min. The well services the feedlot, horse pens, grass trap pasture, and an additional hydrant at the house. The well pumps into a 12,000-gallon water storage tank
•  Metal/pipe working area with hydraulic squeeze chute
•  Cattle sorting pens/ hospital pens with water tank
•  Cattle scale house with electricity
•  Concrete-based semi-loading chute with metal pipe and tub
•  Large feedlot entry-way to accommodate multiple trucks at a time
•  The feedlot and farmstead are perimeter fenced with continuous metal fencing.

Lot Features

• South Farm: 130 total acres with 100 acres under pivot irrigation. The South farm has a 10-acre-foot collection pond to supply the pivot. Zimmatic pivot was installed in 2018.
• • South Farm Water Shares:
• o 120 shares of Otero Canal water, supplied directly from the Otero Canal to the collection pond via a 12” underground pipeline.
• • Catlin Canal Water Shares:
• o Catlin Canal water shares can be transferred to the South farm as needed via a 12” underground pipeline that goes under County Road Z.
• • Pivot corners are irrigatable with concrete ditch and risers
• • The South farm has multiple access points off from paved County Road Z and County Road 24
• • For the past 28 years, the farm has raised alfalfa/grass hay, averaging 5 tons/ acre. The farm was re-seeded to alfalfa in 2024.
• • The South farm has a base for corn and wheat.

Horse Facility Features

• The Otero County Irrigated Farm is well-established for equine activities. The property is currently used for roping and riding. The horses have large turnouts along with 4 acres of irrigated pasture. An ideal tack shed is just west of the home and situated conveniently between the horse pens and the arena. The farm produces top-quality alfalfa hay and grass/alfalfa hay for all of your feeding needs.
•  120 x 65 three-sided hay barn, constructed in 2023
•  120 x 220 pipe roping arena with return alley, holding pens, and catch pen
•  Metal-sided 360 sf tack shed with electricity
•  1,480 sf calving barn
•  3 horse/cattle pens
•  4 acres irrigated grass trap that is accessible to the fields
•  2,040 sf metal equipment shed with electricity and concrete floor