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Navigating Farm Sales: Insights from Recent Auctions
Agricultural land values across the Upper Midwest are showing remarkable resilience, with recent auction results highlighting the market's continued strength. From Burke County farmland bringing $3,400 per acre to an exceptional Emmons County property fetching $7,500 per acre, today's buyers are proving willing to pay premium prices for quality land.
The pattern is clear throughout North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota – premium cropland continues to command top dollar while more marginal properties sell for predictably lower values. This growing price disparity reveals how sophisticated agricultural investors have become in evaluating productivity potential, soil quality, and long-term value. In Wells County, quality cropland sold for $3,100 per acre while nearby pasture land brought $1,250, perfectly illustrating this market dynamic.
Even more impressive has been the extraordinary machinery market we're witnessing this spring. Four-wheel drive tractors remain the stars of equipment auctions, with well-maintained units bringing stellar prices. A John Deere 9560R with 2,500 hours sold for $240,000 at our Bowman consignment sale, while a 2015 model 9620R with similar hours fetched $275,000 at a farm retirement auction.
The transportation segment has been particularly remarkable, with semi-trailers reaching unprecedented values. A 2012 Wilson grain trailer recently sold for $50,000, and even older cattle trailers from the late 1990s are bringing $30,000 to $50,000. This reflects both limited new inventory and the essential nature of these assets for agricultural operations.
Looking ahead, we highlight several exciting opportunities for buyers, including a 3,000-acre working ranch auction in Golden Valley County on May 8th and an extraordinary 840-acre property in Custer County with direct views of Mount Rushmore coming up in July. Whether you're a farmer expanding operations, an investor seeking agricultural assets, or someone dreaming of your own piece of the Black Hills, these upcoming sales offer rare opportunities to acquire exceptional properties.
Join us each week for the latest insights on land and equipment markets across the region, and visit Pifers.com to explore our complete inventory of upcoming auctions and past results.
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Welcome to America's Land Auctioneer. I'm your host, Steve Link, broker for Pfeiffer's Auction and Realty. We're glad you could join us today, Don't forget you can catch up on all our past episodes by visiting Pfeiffer's website and clicking on the podcast link, or go to your library in Apple and Spotify and search out Piper's to view and listen to all past episodes. All right, today we have a really fun show. Joining us is Annie Murnak, Bowman's favorite son. Joining us is Annie Murdack, Bowman's favorite son and auctioneer and machinery lead and a great all-around person, and Kara Zastrow, our marketing director. We asked her to join because I wanted her. When we are talking about sales, she gets to look at all the photos and see the property and see the maps, and I want her to give her color commentary on some of her favorite projects that we've been doing over here the last couple of months, and later in the show we're going to highlight some of the great sales we have coming up as well too. But, Andy, how are things going out in western North Dakota?
Speaker 3:It's been really good. We finally got a little shot of rain here over the weekend. Been a good Easter weekend. The wind's blowing, so that's just bringing back a normal time here for Western North Dakota. But it's been a busy last couple of weeks. Busy season as we're all on the road getting all the land auctions and of course we're deep into the equipment auction season right now, and what a tremendous run it's been.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, I'm noticing the same thing. We, the tractors, are rolling in the fields, the tillage is starting, planting has happened, a lot of wheat is going in the ground, a lot of sugar beets are going in the ground in the valley here. But we had a little bit of rain and it was welcome rain. I'm not sure how long the fields will stay muddy because this wind is really howling and it dries things out and so people are probably rolling again here this morning. But it's fun to see all the tractors and the equipment back in the field. We get to see that equipment just about every day on your lots and to get to see them sell. But to see them in the field going up and down, it's awesome.
Speaker 2:So, all right, what I wanted to do today on our show is recap some of the sales we've had and the land sales and the machinery sales. But let's start out with some land sales that we had. We had the Norby auction sale in Burke County here recently some different parcels up there, but it was highlighted by one of the parcels sold for $3,400 an acre and some of the other parcels sold for $1,200 an acre. I recently had another Burke County land sale. That was an online only sale and that sold for it around that $2,200 an acre for cropland. And you know Burke County. When you see land in Burke County between that $2,000 and $3,000 an acre range, that means the market is still strong in that area, wouldn't you agree, andy?
Speaker 3:Yeah, without a doubt means the market is still strong in that area, wouldn't you agree, andy? Yeah, without a doubt. And I think, going back to that sale, you had one quarter that was really really productive cropland, basically 100% cropland. You were tickling the 80s in soils, if I remember right, and you're in that type of profile of ground, especially in that corner of the state. You're really always going to find a really steady market. But if you're solid into that $2,500 to $2,800 an acre range, that's what you'd kind of expect for that style and profile of land.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then the grumman sale in Griggs County. Two parcels and I think this is kind of just summarizes the land market to a T, just what you were touching on, because one of the parcels sold for $3,200 an acre cropland, good cropland, good quality cropland. And then the other parcel that was much more marginal, a little bit more on the pasture side, or hay land, and that sold for $1,600 an acre, and so that kind of highlights the market right there. Thermos guard sale in Wells county too. Again, it's the the better, the better. Land sold for 3100 and and uh and the more marginal pasture land, um, sold for 1250 an acre. So, um, same trend, same story. Good bidder participation. I was up there for that sale. We held that one in harvey. Really good in-person participation and uh and and also online bidders were active. The sale before that was down in Charles Mix, south Dakota, and you know Chris Bear down in Sioux Falls does a nice job. That land surprised me. Did you watch that sale, andy?
Speaker 3:I did. Yep, I was the clerk on the internet for that sale and it was fast. That sale did not take very long to get from beginning to end. Yep, I was the clerk on the internet for that sale and it was fast. That sale did not take very long to get from beginning to end.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so that sold for over $5,000 an acre and, kara, anything that, all those sales that we just talked about, anything kind of stick out to you. Were you at any of those land sales? Did you make it to any of those land sales?
Speaker 4:those land sales or did you make it make it to any of those land sales? No, I didn't. Um the charles mix county one you just mentioned, uh, primarily like I think it was hay with some crop crop land on it and to bring over 5 000 an acre in that area, which we have never had a land auction in charles mix county. I didn't even know that was a county until chris put that sale. So it's good to get into new counties in south dakota, especially in that area where we're close to our Sioux Falls and Worthing office, that we're putting our footprint on the map there.
Speaker 2:Yep, yep. Well, and the week before there, the first week in in April, a couple days we spent in in Jamestown selling a bunch of land in that Jamestown region, the Dickey County land that we had for the Muslin. That sold really well. That was all pasture land. It had grassland easements on it. One of the parts those there sold for over $5,000 an acre. And anybody you guys were both, I don't know, carrie, were you at that sale?
Speaker 4:No, I wasn't at that one but I did watch it and it was really shocking to see it get to that high for pasture because, I mean, and the gravel did play a big factor in it. But that Dickey County, lemoore County area is so diverse, with the Jamesames river and then very productive cropland, but also the native grasses, with rolling hills and all it makes for good hunting as well as grazing. And so, yeah, we also had, uh, the pressler sale in lemoore county in late march that brought seven thousand an acre, which was unbelievable. So, that area, we're getting more and more sales in that area and it's it's reassuring because, like I said, it's really diverse down there. My fiance's family farms down there and so I've hunted down there, so I can see why these results are what they are because of how diverse those properties were that we have been selling and probably will in the future as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, you already stole my question. How did pasture land or grassland sell for over $5,000 an acre? Well, in this situation there was pretty well-known gravel deposits on it and so you had a different profile buyer there interested. Of course you had some locals that were intuitive enough to know that they could take advantage of those gravel deposits, but we also had some out-of-area bidders that were going to set up shop there. We also had to do some research on that because with the easements on there and how the gravel can be taken off, you have to work with the different agencies there. So that added a little bit more level of expertise on that sale to make sure we represented it properly and the bidding, the bidders, really responded to that. So that was a ton of fun at that sale.
Speaker 2:Well, the Emmons County land sales that we had, that was really the highlight of the first part of April. There, those parcels, there are quarter sections and half sections, a high mix of both crop and grassland that had been pasture, higher productivity indexes, a lot of that pasture land, that grassland is going to be broke up. But that land sold anywhere from $53.50 an acre all the way up to $7,500 an acre. So there was a parcel there that sold for $7,500. And the room was full, was full of bidders, a lot of online activity there too. That was a ton of fun at that sale and I know I got some text messages and some calls afterwards that people were really, really impressed with results on that sale.
Speaker 3:Steve, what do you think the difference in value on that particular property was between the $5,000 ground and the $7,500 ground?
Speaker 2:Productivity index access rocks, some of the grassland area that was going to be cleared for crop production. If it didn't have rock on it then that's much easier to break and farm. Some of the stuff had a little bit more rock on it and the bidders and buyers knew. Most of the bidders that were going strong after it were local producers and they knew exactly where the rocks are and where they're not. So I think that was a big difference there. And then we had kind of a surprising sale in Norman County, minnesota, and it was a lower productivity index land thousand dollars an acre, 5600, which sounds sounds like compared to some of the other sales we've been having that seven, eight thousand, even nine thousand dollars an acre um in norman and clay county um, but um 5600 for this profile, a little lower productivity index, was a really really good sale. And uh, again that that was a little bit surprising. There was a 1031 exchange buyer that came in on that one um which we're seeing. We're seeing a little bit of that still in the marketplace. But that was that was a really good, really good sale, good turnout there.
Speaker 2:So and then we were up in Mercer County and we had had some sales there. A lot of that land ended up in that $2,000 to $2,500 an acre range Good, good, good property, good bidding participation there. And again back in Morton and McLean County and Bismarck that land sold for between $2,500 and $3,600 an acre. So I think we've kind of caught up to all the land sales that we've done since the last time we had this show to give people kind of a feel for what the land market is doing through North Dakota and the central part of the Midwest here. So when we come back after this first segment break I think we'll talk about the machinery auctions that we've had recently. And Andy, let you talk about some of those results. And Kara, I know you've been to some of those machinery auctions and did you get to clerk? Did you get to ring any of those sales?
Speaker 4:I did not ring, but I got some really great content of the guys and good social media presence too as well.
Speaker 3:Perfect Sounds good, steve. I tell you what we'll come back and we'll talk a lot about the equipment and, of course, some of our upcoming land auctions right after this.
Speaker 1:When it comes to selling land or equipment in the upper Midwest, nobody does it better than Pipers. We'll be right back after this break. Welcome back to America's Land Auctioneer.
Speaker 2:I'm Steve Link, your host broker for Piper's Auctioneer Realty. We're glad you could join us today and don't forget, you can catch up on all our past episodes by visiting Piper's website at Piper's dotcom and clicking on America's Land Auctioneer. Before we get into today's next segment, I want to thank America's Land Auctioneer sponsors, piper's Auction Realty and Piper's Land Management. Piper's team of land and equipment auctioneers, real estate agents and land managers will give you a free consultation on selling your land and equipment or managing your farmland. Nobody does it better than the team at Pfeiffer's when it comes to selling your land and equipment or managing your farmland.
Speaker 2:All right, so the first segment. We talked about some of the past sales we've had, but we have the machinery team has been really busy over the last couple weeks and, andy, I want you to talk specifically. Let's start out talking about the Bowman consignment sale that we had a few weeks ago, because we did something a little bit different. I don't know if some of these followers of our equipment auctions maybe saw that, but we had a two-day sale there, which isn't uncommon for us on the consignment sales. But the first day was live with the big, big crowd, everybody there. Um, did we have one ring or multiple rings that day?
Speaker 3:um, we had two rings running for probably an hour, you know. Other than that, we were able to to streamline it, come back in inside and then we we maneuvered the uh, the majority of what would have generally been a two ring one day sale, into a two day, uh, one ring per day sale, and it just really really worked out well and so and so then, um, so that's it, and I want to, I want, I want you to highlight maybe some of the key pieces that sold that day.
Speaker 2:Um, but then the second day, which typically is an online only um deal, it was basically online only, but we had auctioneers there chanting and doing that side of it, and so we could use some of our features on our website to get some more bidders in there. Is that correct?
Speaker 3:Yeah, it is, and it's kind of the direction I believe we're going to move here starting in 2025. Steve, we talked about this last December. For the last few years, we've been doing the Upper Midwest biannual or bimonthly equipment auction and we're going to convert that into an Upper Midwest live online sale as well. And so both Bowman and Steele this year, we tested that out, tested the technology, tested the equipment. Everything ran pretty seamlessly and so we are going to be full steam ahead coming up with the Upper Midwest sales, and the primary reason for that is to allow our sellers, all of our consignors, anybody who's offering equipment through these different sales and through these venues. It allows everybody to capitalize on multiple websites.
Speaker 3:If we do timed online only, or if any company does timed online only, you're only allowed to be part of that one individual website, because you can't tie multiple platforms together.
Speaker 3:If that makes sense, if we do a live sale and we do these virtual sales, um, you're welcome to come to our facilities. You're welcome to sit in with with the auctioneer, whether they're going to be in studio here in bowman or they're, or in steel, or in worthing south dakota, um, or even right there in in fargo, where you're at today, steve will allow you know bidders to to be present and and to take a look at the equipment. If it's on site, most of it's going to be scattered throughout the region, but for the Bowman and the steel sales, the majority of the equipment was here on site, so it allowed people to go outside, check it out, look at it, come back indoors to a temperature and climate control facility and bid away. But then, in the same instance, our sellers have the benefit of capitalizing on multiple platforms and it worked out really, really well between Piperscom Equipment Facts and some of the other platforms that we're going to start using here in the near future.
Speaker 2:Sure sure so. The Bowman sale what were some of the highlights of that sale?
Speaker 3:Well, basically all spring, the highlight of just about any sale here thus far has been the four-wheel drive tractors and and starting off here in bowman it was. It was absolutely no disappointment. We had a local one here as well. It was a 95 60r tractor, uh, consigned by by a um, a local farmer here and sitting with about 2,500 hours on it to bring 240,000 was. It was a tremendous feat here just for that. That individual tractor by itself. Lots of good vehicles.
Speaker 3:We saw a strong vehicle market that day. Trucks and trailers were really strong. Semi-trucks, I thought, had as good of a market this spring as we could have expected. We came into the fall where we had anticipated trucks to be down 12% to 15% and it certainly didn't seem like that. Now we didn't overflood the market with a lot of you know a lot of different varieties of trucks. You know we had a dozen of them here in Bowman, we had about a dozen down in Sioux Falls and we had about well closer to 30 of them in steel.
Speaker 3:But the semi-market across the board I thought was extremely strong and has continued to show strength here this spring. The semi-trailer market between the 48 and 50, 52-foot grain trailers as well as cattle pots. That market's been out of this world. The other day, we were up in Berthold, north Dakota, and sold a 2012 Wilson grain trailer for $50,000. And then to see some of these early 2000s and late 1990s cattle pots go off the market. You know a lot of them. Trailers sell between 30,000 and 50,000 as well, so that market has been probably as strong as anything that we've seen here this spring.
Speaker 2:Sure. So the Bowman sale there was 298 lots on day one and then day two we had 129 lots. How does that compare to other Bowman consignment sales?
Speaker 3:I would say this year, across the board, we dealt with as many different sellers as we've had. So we're up on numbers of clients, we're up on numbers of total items. Value always changes depending on what dollar amount each each item is worth, right, you know. So in this specific sale we had a lot of a lot, of 20 to 50 000 lots. We only had a. Had one lot exceed 200 000, where some years we have five, you know.
Speaker 3:So, um, for this one to be the the size that it was, it's making us wonder if we need to expand this lot. Uh, for the third time in five years and and it looks like we're probably going to go that direction, I believe we're seeing as much activity here in Southwest North Dakota as anywhere. We are looking at expanding the lot in steel already, and after four or five short years down in Sioux Falls, we're probably going to realize that that lot's not big enough here in the near future as well. So it's a good problem to have. We're going to find more space for as much equipment, but the way these sales are lining up, we need to have more sales or get more room.
Speaker 2:Sure, Skipping to the consignment sale we had in steel. Kara, I know you were out there. Talk a little bit about our celebration that we had the night before, Cause that was. That was a lot of fun.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it was. For those that don't know, we are celebrating our 25th anniversary as a company and so on Monday and our steel facility, we had a celebration open to the public and we didn't require RSVPs or anything like that. We just ran an ad in the steel ozone and did a postcard mailer and a Facebook boost and, fingers crossed, people showed up and I think we had about 200 people come through the door and it was amazing to see the community come together to support us but also us thanking them for their continued support for us. And then it was fun to have a live band. It was a, it was a guitarist and a and they both did vocals.
Speaker 4:So that was really fun and good food and just good conversation and good networking. Also especially for the next day being our steel spring consignment auction, which went very well. It was a long day but in the best way possible. I mean, the guys were running around and on their phones talking to their clients, but also talking to people on site and I was able to kind of be afloat and help check people in, check people out and then just get some good content as well. So it was a great two-day celebration in Steele.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I had a family had a funeral to go to and so, seeing all those posts, I had the FOMO and missing out on, on, on everything.
Speaker 4:I was wondering where you were at.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that that was too bad that I couldn't be there, but it looked like fun. And but yeah, I was glad you could, I was glad you could be there, and and then you, you got to go to the next machinery auction too, the next day, Is that right?
Speaker 4:I did. Yeah, it was really fun to get back out there and not just be behind my desk from 8 to 5, kind of immerse myself in what the guys do and see it from a different perspective too, because I'm behind my computer and emailing them left and right and wonder Andy, did you see my email? Well, he probably doesn't, because he's out at these farm retirement auctions from sun up to sun down putting in the work. So I could touch base more on that, probably in the next segment. But yeah, it was. It was fun to kind of get out there and get dirty and help out the equipment team.
Speaker 2:Andy close this out and tell us how to carry a deal.
Speaker 3:Absolutely Wonderful. You know it's always good to have everybody from behind the desks get out once in a while and see what. You know these live sales. It takes a lot of work. You know Piper's is committed to continuing to do that. But when we get back from the break we'll talk about those retirement sales and maybe wrap up the rest of the consignment sales here this spring. That's going to wrap up the second break. If you're looking for professional auction service or experts in land management, piper's Auction, realty and Land Management delivers proven results each and every time. If you're hoping to get top dollar, check it out at piperscom. We'll be right back after this break.
Speaker 1:Welcome back to America's Land Auctioneer.
Speaker 2:I'm Steve Link, broker for Pfeiffer's Auction and Realty. We're glad you could join us today and, don't forget, you can catch up on all our past episodes by visiting pyferscom. Before we get into today's show, we want to thank our sponsor, pyfers Auction and Realty and Pyfers Land Management. Pyfers team of land and equipment auctioneers, real estate agents and land managers will give you a free consultation on selling your land and equipment or managing your farmland. Nobody does it better than the team at Pyfers when it comes to selling your land and equipment or managing your farmland. Nobody does it better than the team at Pifers when it comes to selling your land and equipment or managing your farmland. Well, the last segment. We talked a lot about the machinery auctions that we've been happy having. Andy, how did that Fent tractor sell at the Harmon sale?
Speaker 3:Yeah, there on the 10th of April we had a really, really nice sale for for Jim Harmon up in Carrington, north Dakota, and across the board that sale was as strong as as you can ask for, but you got a really good seller who's very well respected in the community. Probably the highlight of the day obviously is the is the Fent tractor. The, you know, had a. He had a really nice line of of tractors there but the 2021 Fendt and it was sitting with just less than 600 hours on it and topped out the sale that day at 395,000. And you know it sounds like a lot for a tractor, but it's a 2021 model 625 horse, just a workhorse of a machine and very, very well taken care of, kind of what we expected that market to show that day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's always interesting to watch those, those pieces of equipment that aren't green or red. You know, case and John Deere, how they're going to perform in this market, because you just never know, there's some people that just won't. You know they're really brand specific and so it was good to see that, that, that that particular tractor sold as well as it did. And I think, yeah, how how far away did it end up going? Did it stay local or did it go a ways away?
Speaker 3:do you remember at all that tractor, I believe went to Ohio okay, well yep, it was on it.
Speaker 3:Oh sorry, nope, I apologize, that was. That was another one. That tractor ended up going just south of Jamestown, south of Jamestown down to Enderlin country. Yep, so really, really nice tractor and, and you know, glad to see it here. Uh, you know, stay here, stay in the part of the world where they need heavy horsepower.
Speaker 3:The other main, probably the main takeaway that day and it has trickled into the balance of the sales that we've seen here this spring thus far. And it started in steel. The demand for newer and very, very nice tillage equipment is as strong as we've ever seen. We had a 2021 Salford, uh 2,200 vertical till at the Harmon sale as well, and that brought 130,000. And just to see that kind of strength in the market and how many people were, you know, came from a long ways away to, to, to go after that specific unit, we had another one similar to it. We had a 5,500 in steel, not quite the same condition, not quite the same size, but you know, for it, for it to fetch six digits, was what was strong as well. So to see a lot of six digit tillage equipment here this spring really tells me that there's a lot of optimism coming into the spring planting season.
Speaker 2:So, other than Kara being up at the birth old sale, any, any other pieces of equipment there you want to highlight?
Speaker 3:That sale you could virtually highlight from top to bottom From the minute the crowd started walking on there. You know there was no nerves that morning because an hour before the sale we had a tremendous crowd. We knew we were going to split into two rings right away, basically 20 minutes into the sale, because we had just had it was had a really large sale, lots of small items there. He was cleaning out the entire farmstead and we just had to do a full clearinghouse. So there was a lot of items on the ground, lots of items in the shop. We had a couple trailers full of stuff as well and basically Kevin and Cliff and Jim and I split off into a second ring and the main ring and tore off with the online equipment and it was just a success from beginning to end.
Speaker 3:A lot of older trucks, a lot of older semis and grain trucks in that sale. Older vehicles really had a solid market on it. When we got into the grain trailers, that's probably where everything shined a little bit. I would say that's where the surprise of the market was. We had a 2013 Commander grain trailer brought 41,000, a 2009 Wilson pace setter that brought 34,500, and you know some older grain jet grain trailers as well that were just, you know, 14,000, 15,000, you know, top to bottom, just across the board. When you got into the green iron in that sale. That's really where everything kind of come together.
Speaker 3:This particular farm, it know, reminded me a lot of home. I said that from the the minute I met jim and and uh, everybody up on that site is when you walked on here, you just understood that nothing was new, you weren't going to get anything that had, you know, less than 500 hours. But you knew it was all shedded, it was all taken care of and the only reason he still had it is because it was a good piece of equipment. And that's where you know, from a financial standpoint, on how to manage a farm. You know, jim, or Alan Lee, he had the ability to basically, you know, depreciate everything out on a lower dollar per acre or lower cost per hour to operate his equipment and he did a fantastic job. You know he said he did. He said we don't have the shiniest equipment. He said we've just got good, functioning equipment, everything that we need is here and we use everything that we have. And that goes a long ways.
Speaker 3:The tillage equipment there again was just a rock solid. We had a 2013 Horsch PT400 Joker and that brought 31,000. Just kind of goes to show how well taken care of it was for a 12-year-old piece of tillage equipment to still be in the 30s Good rock disc. For John Deere disc was 35,000. And then we got into the big horsepower. We had a 2015 John Deere 9620R. This is the big four-wheel drive tractor here. 2,430 hours on, it Just really well set up, heavy horsepower tractor on triples and it brought 275,000. So I thought that market up there was was consistent is what we've seen across the across the region and to see that high horsepower four wheel drive market is going to continue to be steady and strong here all spring.
Speaker 2:So, kara, you know we're Andy's doing rattling off these numbers. I don't know if you're doing on top of your head, if you got our website up, but, kara, you know Andy's rattling off these numbers. I don't know if you're doing it off the top of your head, if you've got our website up, but, kara, explain to our listeners how they can navigate our website to find these results If they hear something and they want to go in and see the pictures and see the actual piece of equipment.
Speaker 4:Of course, yeah. So if you were to go to wwwpiferscom, we do have a blue bar with different tabs up at the top. If you were to click the auctions tab, it will bring you to all of our upcoming auctions, but then in a faint gray color there's going to be all auctions land auctions, equipment auctions and then what's really nice that we have incorporated in our new site is a button to direct you to land auction results but also equipment auction results, where we didn't have that previously on our old site. So, trying to navigate people calling and asking what a piece of land went for a piece of equipment, it's right there now at their fingertips. So, yep, just look for the gray faint bar. You can filter out by land, equipment, land auction results and equipment results.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I think the only it is so nice and handy and the only the only other nuance when you get into some of the equipment results, it takes you off to our online bidding platform and to get back to Piper, sometimes you have to maybe open another tab and click back into Piper's, but that has been really handy for me as a person out on the street, when somebody asks me what has happened and you, you know we're doing over 200 land auctions and I don't know how many pieces of equipment you're selling now, andy, but it is just tough to remember everything, and so to jump on there and see it all in chronological order, um, and then get into the sale and seeing that stuff is really, really nice yeah, definitely, especially with our search bar functions, you can search by county or by piece of equipment, which is really helpful.
Speaker 2:Yep, Yep. All right, Andy. What do we got on the docket coming up here? We talked about a lot of stuff in the past, but now that you got everybody excited about all these equipment that we sold in the past, what can they look forward to in the future here?
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know we're going to be on the road starting Monday right away. We're going to head right up to Voltaire, north Dakota. Up in that Minot country, we're going to go to the Holti Farm Retirement Sale Really really nice equipment up here as well. That's going to be a rather large sale. And then we're going to kind of traverse towards the southwest corner and head to the Witte Farm Retirement Auction in Regent farm retirement auction in region. Uh, the following week we're going to be back in south dakota, so we're going to kind of traverse the region here over the next couple of weeks and we're going to head down to the southern dakota 2025 spring equipment auction. That's going to be a multiple day, multiple or multiple ring auction as well, and I think they got three rings set up there about 800 lots already listed, so that's 800 lots. And then we we're gonna jump on the road here that day and and we're gonna shoot straight from Sioux Falls up to Barnesville, minnesota, for a really nice small, smaller sale, but a really really nice sale, uh, for the Buttenhoff family.
Speaker 3:Um, lots of good sales. I think there's another I'm gonna say 12 or 14 uh equipment auctions coming up, including some of our great upper midwest sales that we were talking about. We're converting those from an online only to a live online platform, basically conducting a virtual sale. We're going to be on all of our sites, either in Bowman Steele, sioux Falls or on the eastern side of North Dakota. As we continue to develop some more facilities, we're going to incorporate that sale at each and every one of them. You can always bring equipment to those sites or, for that particular sale, you can leave it at home. We'll represent it. However, it works best for you as the seller and we'll make sure you get coordinated with the right buyers and the right marketing to ensure top results.
Speaker 2:Is there, you know, for our listeners sake. Is there a line of equipment that starts to get to the size that's so small that it's tough to have it on farm sale? Is there a minimum number of items that you probably want to be over before we would have it on site?
Speaker 3:I think there's really no blanket answer. I don't believe. I think you always kind of have to determine whether the juice is worth the squeeze, right? You know there's expenses into conducting business, there's expenses into conducting an auction sale and the idea of the Upper Midwest sale is to eliminate some of those for those who may not have enough to overcompensate for what expenses can be incurred. So it really kind of comes down to being customizable for everybody who's involved, customizable for every client individually and specifically for every client individually and specifically, and really ensure that everybody has an opportunity to reach. You know as large of a market for any particular item, whether you have one item or you have an entire, you know family farm that you're going to liquidate.
Speaker 2:So our idea here is just to ensure that everybody has the same capabilities of reaching that target audience, or that broad audience that's become well virtually worldwide. Yeah, so, looking at the the the nice flyer that Kara put together for us, you know she's got most of the sales that we have up until basically up into July, and we're continuing to add sales for June in July, but it looks like you got not only, not only, farm equipment, but you got a couple of construction equipment sales as well too. Is that right?
Speaker 3:Steve, let's talk about that right after the next break. We've got one more segment coming up here on America's Land Auctioneer and we'll be right back. When it comes to buying and selling farmland, ranches and equipment, experience matters. Piper's Auction, realty and Land Management is your team and leading industry professionals ready to serve you. Nobody does it better. 35,.
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Speaker 2:Welcome back to America's Land Auctioneer. I'm Steve Linkbroke for Piper's Auction Realty. We're glad you could join us today. Don't forget you can catch up on all our past episodes by visiting Piper'scom and clicking on America's Land Auctioneer to access all our podcast library or go to Apple and Spotify.
Speaker 2:And before we get into this last segment, I want to thank America's Land Auctioneer sponsors, pfeiffer's Auction and Realty and Pfeiffer's Land Management. Pfeiffer's team of land and equipment auctioneers, real estate agents and land managers will give you a free consultation on selling your land and equipment or managing your farmland. Nobody does it better than the team at Pifers when it comes to selling your land and equipment or managing your farmland. All right, well, we ran short on time on the last segment and we're going to talk about some of the upcoming equipment auctions, but we also have some land auctions that are coming up that we that that I think our listeners are going to be really excited about. Let's start with a couple of those equipments and just kind of close out on that some of the equipment sales that you have coming up.
Speaker 3:and then I really want to talk about that three, eight thousand acres we have coming up in may 8th in golden valley town yeah, again, like we said county yeah, like you said, you know, next week we're going to be in voltaire, north North Dakota, followed by the sale in Regent, and then the following week we'll be on the road all the way to Worthing, south Dakota. Coming back to Barnesville, minnesota, there's a great sale coming up in Tuttle, north Dakota, for a farm retirement sale the Steichen family and then we've got an online-only farm estate auction down in Raleigh, north Dakota, and that's going to sell the land, the equipment, everything is going to be an online-only sale down in Raleigh and that one's going to be on May 28th, so that'd be a tremendous sale there. We've got a pair of sales back-to-back on June 10th and June 12th up in the northwest corner of North Dakota. We're going to be in Plaza, north Dakota for the Bray Flat Estate and then one of the great families that we've had a chance to work with this year is the O'Neill family. We're up in Columbus, north Dakota, on the 12th and that is going to be a tremendous sale with a lot of really good equipment that's been very well taken care of and that's going to be all indoor. You know everything's been shedded indoors, basically its entire life. Really really nice operation, great farm up there and really looking forward to that sale, then we're going to follow that up with.
Speaker 3:On June 16th is the Upper Midwest sale, and that's the one we were talking about converting to a live online sale, and we still have time to consign items today. So if you need to put anything in that sale, if you got some really nice construction, heavy equipment or farm equipment, you want to put in that sale. Lots of good, lots of good trucks and trailers getting added to that, given the strength of the market that we're seeing thus far. So we expect that one to be a tremendous sale coming up on the 16th of June, just a couple days later, we're going to be back-to-back sales on the northern side of the state. We're going to go back to Bottineau, north Dakota, followed by a nice sale in Carpio, so going to be on the road.
Speaker 3:The second annual Len Sadler Memorial Car Auction is going to be in Bowman. Again, that one's on the 26th of July and that gets us into the middle of summer, so still time to be part of a couple of these great sales. So if you got any classic cars, last year was a tremendous, tremendous sale. We're looking forward to being part of what seems to be the fastest growing car show in well in the upper Midwest. I would say that this can be one of the one of the best car shows you'll ever have a chance to go to without being in Deadwood, scott, st Taylor, florida.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's boy. I'm tired Just listening to that. So, kara, kara, I want you to go to every single one of those sales and you give me a report back on our next radio show. Okay.
Speaker 4:Got it All right, noted.
Speaker 3:All right. Yeah, you didn't mention the 3000 acre sale coming up, steve, and that's that's really one that we're kind of focused on right now, drumming up a lot of interest. We're over here in Golden Valley County, north Dakota, uh the, the Richard family uh ranch. There we're going to sell basically an entire working ranch, the uh the, the farmstead. The headquarters is really nice. You got a nice partially remodeled home, uh the rest of the buildings, the calving facility, the indoor campground, calving facility, the indoor working facility. You've got a Morton building for a nice shop, another really nice cold storage building, really really nice property with lots of good water, basically scattered throughout it, all of the cropland on it really has good soil. So to be right there in the heart of Golden Valley County, between Sentinel Butte and Beach, only a couple miles off of the interstate, it's just a really really good opportunity and we've got it split into seven different parcels and basically have something for everybody.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that sale is May 8th. Where are we holding that one? What, uh, we in Dickinson that for that sale.
Speaker 3:Absolutely not. We are at the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame, downtown Medora, North Dakota.
Speaker 2:Yep, medora, yep, that's a that holds a special place in my heart. So I'm excited to be out there for for that sale and and a little bit later in the day. But I think that'll give an opportunity for people to go tour it again that morning and and look at it during the day and then and then have some fun and bid on your parcels. And yeah, I'm really really excited about that sale. I can't wait for that one to come up. We're, you know, for that one to come up. You were talking before we got on the air here about recently you were down in South Dakota looking at a property.
Speaker 3:Tell us about that one. Yeah, we're pretty excited. We've got kind of a once in a lifetime opportunity here. This is on July 17th, so for about a week there we're going to allow some online bidding. That's going to be from July 11th to July 17th. We are going to be in Custer County, south Dakota. We are right along the border of the Custer State Park. Actually, the west boundary of this ranch is the park fence.
Speaker 3:Back in the I'm going to get the decade wrong, but I'm going to guess the 50s when they really started doing the expansion of the state park, this family actually got pushed outside the fence and where this ranch was actually kind of in the heart of the park, a little closer to Custer itself. So now they were relocated, you know, some 60, 70 years ago, and now we have an opportunity for 840 acres of land just outside of Hermosa, south Dakota, and you head southwest, like you're heading towards Mount Rushmore, and you're going to run right into this property. You've got a tremendous opportunity here. In fact, steve, I was telling you on parcel number one, there's one vantage point. It's the highest part up there, but it's a nice big, flat, open meadow on top of what I consider a black hill right, a big, wide open area with pine trees all around you. But there is one vantage point that if you built a home right up there, you would have a direct view and I got pictures of it yesterday a direct view of Mount Rushmore every night.
Speaker 2:Wow so you can see Mount Rushmore from that. That is incredible. I can't wait. So do you need Kara and I to come down there and help on your marketing material?
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know the open houses are going to be fantastic. We've got multiple open house dates set up because we're just expecting a lot of interest in there. We want to give everybody an opportunity to have a chance to get a four-wheeler tour of the property. We're getting to know the place really, really well. I've been down there a half a dozen times already, spent a lot of time on the property and we've got it broke down into multiple parcels. You're going to have an opportunity to either 40 acres or 80 acres or all the way up to 160 acres. We've got two parcels there and they're just breathtaking, absolutely breathtaking.
Speaker 3:As of the end of actually as of today there's brand-new photos up on the website now with pictures of every parcel. We've got the interactive map on our website as well. You can always check it out at pyferscom, but all the updates are going to be consistent on the website. But if you want a chance to come take a look at, honestly, what I'm going to say is probably my top five favorite properties that I've ever stepped foot on. Give us a call, we'll take you down there. We'll meet you there anytime.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that says a lot to be in the top five, because we sold some tremendous properties and I remember when we first started this business, every property we went to we were like, oh, this is better, this is better. Well, now we've been doing it for I don't know how long have you been doing it, Andy?
Speaker 2:Right at 20 years now 20 years and I've been like 23 years, so, um, and our company's 25th anniversary, so that's, uh, that's that's where we've been and we've seen a lot of properties and and I imagine every time you go out there it's, it's going to get a little greener, a little bit nicer. You're going to update the photos and have a chance to do that. Kara, do you take a different approach when you have a special property like this on putting your marketing material together?
Speaker 4:Yeah, definitely so. The May 8th auction that Andy has the 3,000 acres in Golden Valley County. Try to make it as unique as possible, to kind of stand out compared to our other branding land auction catalogs. Just because it is in a unique part of North Dakota, we want to make it look kind of rustic and and western like, and Annie and I were visiting about the Custer County auction in July and he's like we got to do the same thing. Unique branding, not only the branding and the print material but also social media. We can target individuals everywhere. Really I mean the property is very diverse. I just pulled the maps today and it's a property for anybody really I mean. So we'll target unique people throughout, probably the upper Midwest maybe do some digital campaigns. Our direct mailers are probably our bread and butter really for our marketing, where we target specific landowners in the region and they get it in their mailbox in three days after placing it and it's a great marketing piece to advertise our sales.
Speaker 3:She's done a great job in all the main marquee land sales we've had over the last couple years. So excited to work with Kara. As we continue our journey down the road here in Custer County, south Dakota, join us for any of our upcoming sales, steve. That's going to be it for today's episode of America's Land Auctioneer. Ladies and gentlemen, join us next week, same time, same place, your favorite radio station and or wherever you get your podcasts. We'll see you next week.