Home & Building Site Available for Inspection Daily at Your Leisure from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM or by Appointment Arranged with the Owner or the Auctioneers
Attention – Acreage Buyers, Crop-Livestock Operators & Row Crop Operators! This auction presents an opportunity to purchase a nicely improved and sizeable +/-41.18 acre acreage/livestock farm. Additionally, the purchaser may have the opportunity to lease approx. 173 acres of Adjacent Productive Tillable Cropland. Furthermore, the owner has an additional 400 acres of contiguous pastureland located near Ward, SD, that may be available for lease to the purchaser. If you are in the market for a sizeable acreage with a modern ranch style home, cattle/livestock feeding facilities & grain storage, along with the opportunity to lease additional acres of cropland and pasture, then make plans to inspect this property and be in attendance at this auction. This property has been recently surveyed and will be offered as a +/-41.18 Acre acreage/farmstead, inclusive of a modern ranch style home, livestock feeding facilities & grain storage. The improvements on this property include a stick built modern 3+ bedroom ranch style home constructed in 1993, with approx. 2,240 sq. ft. on the main floor, which is comprised of a living room w/vaulted ceiling & brick faced gas fireplace, formal dining room, kitchen w/oak cabinets & built-in dishwasher, island, snack bar and a dining area; an office/bedroom (no closet), 2 bedrooms w/closets, a full bath w/dual access from the master bedroom and hallway; a main floor laundry w/sink, a ¾ bath/mudroom and a side entry to an attached double garage w/2 OH doors – which has accesses to both the main and basement levels of the home; this home has a full basement that is partially finished and is inclusive of a family room with a stone faced gas fireplace, a bedroom w/closet, a lg. stg room and/or bonus living space located next to the family room; a ¾ bath, a utility room with a newer champion forced air furnace (2018) w/ central AC (2019) and a Marathon 90 gal. elec. HW heater; an add’l. stg. room, and a stg./utility room w/access to a stairway that provides direct access to the garage and 200 amp breaker elec. service & sump pump. This home has a wood basement with concrete floor that is drain tiled around and under the home. The home has an attached dbl. garage w/2 overhead doors. The exterior of the home has masonite siding and asphalt shingles. The home is serviced by a septic system that will likely require updating pursuant to inspection and Pipestone County Conservation & Zoning regulations – the cost of any septic system updates will be at the expense of the buyer. The acreage is serviced by Lincoln-Pipestone rural water.
Other improvements include a metal machine shed (approx. 48’x120’) w/approx. ½ concrete, and livestock facilities, which according to Pipestone County Conservation & Zoning is registered as of the 2017 renewal of the Livestock Permit to accommodate 540 animal units (600 feeders & 100 cow/calf pairs); with facilities including a west alley with an open front cattle shed (approx. 36’x120) that services 2 livestock yards – south side with 192’ of flat feed/pushup feed space and north side with 204’ of flat feed/pushup feed space; barn with cattle working, sorting & loading area and a small office area, 6 livestock yards – much of which has continuous pipe fencing, miracle auto. water fountains at 9 locations, a northeast yard with approx. 224’ of concrete flat/pushup feed space, SE yard with approx. 220’ of concrete fenceline “J” bunk & +/-40’x60’ open front bldg., S yard with approx. 140’ of older “J” concrete feedbunk and a +/-45’x45’ open front bldg., feed shed, 6,000 bu. steel grain bin & other incidental improvements. One additional noteworthy item is that electricity is mostly all underground power throughout the farmstead. The seller indicates that there currently are 2 existing wells on the property, 1 that will be certified as “in use” and a 2nd that will be sealed at the expense of the seller in the spring of 2020. South of the farmstead there is a grain storage facility which includes 2 Stormor bins – approx. 48’Dx32’H which are +/-50,000 bushels each; a Stormor grain bin – approx. 30’Dx28’ bin (+/-15,000 bu.) with a Stormor Easy Drying System that needs work to be operational; and a Stormor 24’Dx21’ bin (+/-8,000 bu.) – A major item is that the bin site is serviced by 3 phase electrical. According to FSA information there are approx. 16 acres of cropland within the boundaries of the acreage, with the remainder comprised of the home site, livestock yards & other improvements, the bin site, waterway/drainage and roads. The adjacent cropland acres which are available for lease features some productive cropland which has excellent fertility gained from the regular application of cattle manure and has some high quality productive soils in the cropland areas. The RE taxes payable in 2019 on this property in the Homestead Amounts were $3,954.00 on +/- 153 acres inclusive of the farmstead and $156.00 on the +/-5 acre bin site.