America’s Land Auctioneer

Inside a Wild 2025 Land Market: Auctions, Grassland Strength, and Where Smart Buyers Win

• Kevin Pifer + Jack Pifer + Steve Link + Andy Mrnak + Jim Sabe + Christian Miller • Season 9 • Episode 10

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Land headlines may say “wild,” but the on-the-ground story is sharper: focused buyers, resilient prices on the right tracts, and real opportunity in mixed-use and grassland parcels. We unpack the three pillars driving value—farm profitability, interest rates, and safety nets—then dig into why “land is local” still explains so much of what clears at auction. Attendance may be thinner than last year, yet prime quarters near existing operations continue to command strength, especially where soils, access, and water line up.

We also trace the season’s format shift. Lakota’s live room popped, Devils Lake went heavy online, and harvest convenience kept producers bidding from the cab. You’ll hear when we choose live high-bidder’s choice versus timed online, how buyer profiles influence results, and why clear parceling, fencing status, water sources, and drone footage help sellers earn trust and bidders move fast. On the ground, grassland remains a bright spot as livestock values hold firm across western North Dakota and eastern Montana—where contiguous pasture, reliable water, strong fences, and maintained roads are the real currency.

Then we map the fall slate: Jamestown’s multi-parcel cropland, Emmons County’s contiguous grass, western ND pheasant-country tracts, and a standout 1,763-acre Cass County offering stretching Castleton to Wheatland. High PI soils and development shadow along Highways 10 and 18 create long-hold optionality, while additional parcels sit near the ethanol plant and along the interstate for future flexibility. Add a 2,500-acre Slope–Bowman package with river-bottom trees on Little Beaver Creek, and recreational and grazing value intersect in rare ways.

Looking to engage, learn, or bid? Join our Midwest Farm Land Seminar on October 14 at 5:30 PM in Bismarck, browse aerials and soils at Pifers.com, and subscribe for weekly updates. If this deep dive helps you plan your next move, share it with a neighbor and leave a review—what opportunity are you scouting next?

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SPEAKER_02:

Welcome to America's Landbox here where we talk everything land. Buying, selling, investing, and living the rural lifestyle. I'm your host, Andy Murnock with Pfizer's Auction Realty. Every week we bring you real insights from the heart of America's farmland, the markets, the opportunities, and the people who make rural America thrive. Let's get started. Today we are sitting here side by side with Jack Piper, Steve Link getting ready to uh enter into the busy season. It's been kind of a wild, uh, wild 2025 thus far. Lots of things going on, Steve. Uh Jack, you guys have been to all the sales here that that we've had in the in the past few months. Uh let's kind of recap a little bit of what we've been seeing in the in the markets. We've got um a lot of things happening in in in American agriculture, right? It's it's always a cyclical opportunity. But as we look into the next few months, there's a lot of conversation about where the economy is heading. What I see is opportunity. How about you guys?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, it's uh it's crazy. Everywhere we go, we get asked, okay, well, how's the land market? What's going on? Um, you know, soybeans, it's there's no secret the soybean market is not where everybody wants it. The profitability on the farm segment, which is one of the three pillars that we talk about that makes us uh a really robust land market, um, it's it's farm profitability, it's interest rates, and it's safety nets. And and when some of that stuff is is in flux, um, you really see you you'll see a fairly fairly instant reaction in the market on one hand. On the other hand, land is local. And so if there is a parcel of land be anywhere in the state that is close to your operation and it's got a good reputation, and there's two or three or four or five uh buyers and investors and and producers that are interested in, we're not seeing any let off. I it doesn't matter that the interest rates are high, it doesn't matter that the commodity prices are low. Um, we're not seeing any let off on some of these sales. Um now we are seeing, in my opinion, probably less participation where there was six, eight, ten buyers in certain regions, certain areas, certain neighborhoods. Um you're seeing now two, three, four buyers that are participating in that property. Um but um you said you know you said the word opportunity, Andy, and I and I I believe there is opportunity out there. I think buyers um need to continue to do the homework, need to continue to go to Pifers.com and look at our look at our schedule and and make sure that they aren't just assuming that it's gonna go high and they're not prepared for land sale. Um, I think the real, real opportunity right now is land that is maybe not all farmland or maybe not all pasture land. Um, if it's a mix, um, that um tends to divide the buyers. The buyers that are uh cattle guys don't want to mess with 50, 60 acre pastures. Uh the the producers or farmers don't want to mess with uh um mess with a smaller acreage. Um and so those those land sales might be an opportunity for somebody to buy. Now, with that said, um, you know, is that going to see the appreciation that some of the other parcels haven't? Maybe not. And so you really have to look at your your um investment um uh strategies on on some of that.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, we just came through a stretch of a lot of years where farmers and ranchers are able to build up some equity. And you know, agriculture is is always cyclical. And yeah, we're we're entering into a time where we're starting to see some of those some of those cycles, but with every transition like that creates these opportunities. And we've we've always said this, we've said this for years and years that you don't ever want to buy land when it's convenient, or you don't ever get the opportunity to buy land when it's convenient, you buy when it's available, and you know, there's a lot of a lot of availability uh heading down the pipeline here. And I, you know, I got might have to get a little creative on some of these purchases, but uh Jack, what are you seeing as far as uh producers out there looking for looking for some of the properties?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I think there's still a lot of people looking, and you know, the interest level on uh on all of my upcoming sales seems to be about in the same spot it was uh for the past couple years. We just got done with um, you know, the past couple weeks, we've had a pretty good run of sales kind of all over the region, um, here in the valley in central North Dakota, up in the uh northeastern part of the state. Um, like Steve said, you know, attendance might have been a little bit down at some of those sales, and and bitter participation might have been uh a little lower than what we would have seen, you know, uh about a year ago. But um, you know, the the results seem to be pretty much the same, you know, throughout the region, and uh I'm still seeing pretty good results and and uh still a good amount of interest out there.

SPEAKER_02:

What I'm always putting my finger on is go ahead, Andy. I said land always remains to be one of those one of the most reliable investments out there. I mean it it's it's always off for security, it's continued to be an appreciating asset over time, and and that's where I think you're still gonna start seeing, you know, continue to see the participation and why the land market's still main maintaining strong strength.

SPEAKER_00:

And what I what I uh it's really interesting to me and a student on on how we structure our sales, um, if it's an online only or if it's an in-person sale and what the turnout is and how many people are participating in person and how many people are participating um online. And and we had a couple sales here a week or so ago up um in in Lakota and uh and Devil's Lake. And the turnout in Lakota was fantastic. We had a lot of people that came in person and uh a little bit of internet bidding on that, but most of the bidding was in person there, um, which I thought we would have uh a lower turnout just because of how uh soybean harvest is is is going. And then we went over to Devil's Lake and the turnout was really light, and all of most of all of our bidding um was was online, but there was there was um uh successful bidder, there was in person. And so um, so I like the fact that we offer those those those options on it, but it's um it's really tough for us to gauge um how many uh how many cups of coffee we have to have ready for people and and cookies because um it just just the the buyer um habits are are shifting now to to um wanting to stay where they're at, either on their farm or in their tractor combine and and bid that way. Um and so that's that's been an interesting shift in certain certain areas.

SPEAKER_02:

I would see I would say we've seen a lot of strength in the grass side market too. And especially out here in the western side of the up of the upper Midwest or western side of the region. Uh probably the most optimistic commodity in the in agriculture today is is livestock values, livestock prices. Uh calves in the cattle markets can continue to maintain strength as we move into the fall. Doesn't look like it's gonna slow down as we enter into the first uh couple of quarters of 2026. And I think there's a lot of optimism and an opportunity the market here on the western side of the state and all across the region rather, but uh we've got some large properties that are uh people are gonna have an opportunity at as well.

SPEAKER_00:

And Andy, that let's let's touch on that. What uh what are buyers what do cattle producers and and buyers care about when they're looking and when they're analyzing their pasture?

SPEAKER_02:

Rain.

SPEAKER_00:

Rain?

SPEAKER_02:

I think that's that's really what it comes down to. In the western side, we we can uh we can grow as good a grass in the you know as as you can anywhere in the in the nation as long as it rains. And uh our our stocking rates are 100% dependent on rain. So, you know, the value of the property, the value and the productivity of the land that we're looking at as far as uh going out and looking for for grassland, uh, it really evolves around you know, around rain soup. Um, you know, you can't guarantee that each and every year. That's why we're not seeing five thousand dollar uh uh pasture land. If if we could guarantee 30 inches of rain in the western side of the state every year, you probably we'd we'd see three, four thousand dollar acre grassland. But given the fact that we can't uh predict that and we know what our our uh production history is, um if we're at 100% uh uh grazing capacity, you're gonna look at what the grasses are, what the sustainability of the of the water supply is, and in access. Access is a big thing. You know, there's there's always people that want to want a uh a good remote property, but if it's not convenient to get to and it takes you an hour to trudge down a back road, if it even if it does rain, um, you know, it takes time. Time is probably one of the most precious commodities, especially in the in in agriculture today, farming and ranching. All the sizes uh of everybody's operations continually gotten bigger. And so time becomes uh of the essence. So having the ability to to put uh contiguous grassland acres together is a is a big deal. Or if you're can't buy something real close to home, if you're gonna transport them, we want the ability for uh to transport and leave that those cattle there for uh an extended period of time, whether it's the entire grazing season or half of it or whatnot. So uh having the ability to rotate, um managing grass uh is becoming probably the key to success in all operations, and having the ability to do your cell grazing and cell management and rotations is uh as the summer uh realigns and as the weather always changes, um, that's that's probably the main thing. So fences, water, good access, and good productivity of the grasses.

SPEAKER_00:

And the size, yeah. You hit it all. That that that those are the four things that I that I uh that I talk about constantly when you when you evaluate uh what what what pasture land might might might go for.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, and that there's gonna be some good opportunities uh here in the in western North Dakota and eastern Montana coming up this fall. Uh we can disclose one of those today, and then there's a couple others coming down the pipeline as well. So uh, you know, the the whole show is gonna be based on opportunity and in in the ranching side of it, there's gonna be a lot of opportunity for the next upcoming years.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, Jack, what are you seeing? Um what are you seeing in the recreational hunting market? Is that uh steady, strong, lull? What do you what are you seeing on that side of it?

SPEAKER_01:

I think it's it's pretty steady. I think that's actually starting to to pick up a little bit, and maybe that's you know, uh partly because interest rates are starting to come down a little bit. Um, and it's usually kind of those those investor uh hunter types that are that are after properties like that. It's also probably the time of year, right? It's on everybody's mind. But um, yeah, I think uh, you know, like you said, Steve, there's a lot of opportunity out there for that kind of land, especially when you have land that is uh kind of that mixed use with it with good cropland and pasture land. Um, and it maybe isn't the best fit for for everybody, but it might be a good buy for a potential, you know, investor hunter. Um, so I seem to uh I think I've been I've been getting asked about properties like that more and more over the last couple months, and probably because of the season, like I said, but uh I think that market is is starting to pick up a little bit.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I I would echo that. I think uh um I especially too when there's land that is that mixed, um, you know, it's not 100% tilable. Um it's mixed and and the price points on it are at that thousand twelve hundred, fifteen hundred dollars an acre, it becomes a little bit more affordable for hunter, a couple, a couple of hunter buyers together on that.

SPEAKER_02:

Ladies and gentlemen, that brings us to the end of the first break. You listen to America's landbox here.

SPEAKER_03:

Welcome back to America's Land Auction.

SPEAKER_02:

You're your host, Andy Murnock, here on this fine Saturday morning. Appreciate everybody for joining us for our second segment alongside with Jack Piper and Steve Link. We've been talking about the land market as uh the fall and the winter months uh start to unfold here at Piper's Auction Realty and Land Management. Uh, land remains to be one of the most reliable and proven assets in America, continues to produce. It's a tangible asset, it appreciates over time, and of course, it's a long-term form of security. And that's what we're here to do is talk about all the opportunities that we're gonna find out uh here in the upcoming months. Steve, uh, Jack, we've got a lot of sales coming up here in October, and it starts basically uh right away on Monday morning. We've got four auctions, five auctions on Monday, we got six or seven auctions on Tuesday, uh, a couple other auctions out through uh throughout the western side of the North Dakota or the western region of our uh of our territory and into Montana as we wrap up the week on Thursday or uh for Thursday and Friday as you guys go back to the Eastern South Dakota side. So uh kind of a busy week for travel, but this is just kind of the the forefront of what we're gonna see here this fall.

SPEAKER_00:

Do you think I need uh when I get home on uh on Friday, do I think I need to sign the guest book at home? Is that uh is that what I'm gonna have to do? Is that what you're telling me?

SPEAKER_02:

I'll I'll leave it up to Stacey if she's gonna welcome you with open arms back in the house.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, this is always an exciting week for for our company and and and everybody because we we um it's typically uh a good uh you know opening weekend of of pheasant hunting and or the or the or the next full week of pheasant hunting. And so we like to we like to get out in western North Dakota and and and highlight some of those properties when uh when people are out and about. And uh um yeah, so I think we got I think this month alone we're selling 7,300 acres, and so there's bound to be uh a parcel or two that should interest anybody that any one of our listeners here. So um, but Monday, Monday there is a nice slate of land sales, and Jack, you're you're the you're the lead on on some of these, but we start out at at the Gladstone in Jamestown Monday morning at 10 o'clock, and uh the the 10 o'clock sales are 318 acres in Lamore County and and 541 acres in Kidder and Stutzman County. Can you uh can you give us uh the the highlights on some of those uh some of those properties?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, absolutely. Let's dive into some of those. Uh let's start with the the 318 acres in in Lamore County. That one's going to be sold as uh as two different parcels. Uh the land is located about eight miles west of Dickey, North Dakota. Um, so a really great area down there. Um parcel one and parcel two, um both mostly tilable acres, soil productivities in the 70s and 80s on both of those. Um parcel one does have a little bit of uh a little bit of it is is seeded into Alfalfa on the north end, um, but could be worked up and and put back into production. Um had a really nice crop on it this year. Um good loamy soils on all of that, good access to both parcels. So splitting it into splitting the half section into into two quarters um is is no problem on that one. But um, yeah, really strong productive land um in a really great area down there uh in Lamore County. So that'll be uh really interesting to see where that one's gonna go. I know there's there's been some good interest on that one.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, and since those are contiguous uh quarters, they're right next to each other, a buyer could buy both of them and um and and have a really, really nice farm. And and if if it if that doesn't work in your in your uh in your situation, you can you can bid on just one and and hopefully uh hopefully get one and somebody else can buy the other one.

SPEAKER_01:

So yep, and that one will be high better choice, right? Like we normally do with the multi-parcel sales. So wouldn't surprise me if the high better ends up ends up taking two there, but um, yeah, good to have the option to take to take one or the other if if you're if you're only looking at one. Another one that morning, um shortly following that one, is going to be the the Kidder County land auction. Um this is kind of a diverse set of properties here. It's gonna be in in three different parcels. Um and this land is located um kind of right in the Streeter area. Um, all of it is within about 10 miles or so of Streeter, North Dakota. Parcel one is kind of one of those mixed-use properties that we were talking about in the first segment, uh, where you've got about 100 crop acres on there. Um, but then there also is um some pretty nice uh fenced out pasture land on that property as well. Um so this is kind of one of those that you could look at as a potential investor hunter where you um where you get a little creative with some of that pasture land and you could get creative with with food plots and um you know let the pasture sit and leave it as really good cover. That's a really great area for for upland hunting um and waterfowl and all that. So um really good, really cool looking property there on parcel one. Parcel two um is uh is another nice piece, it's a short half section. Um, a couple different uh fields on there, but that one is a majority cropland. Um quite a few different soil types on there, but some good loamy soils um had a really nice corn crop on it this year. Um, and so hopefully people have had the opportunity to to drive by that one and and see the nice crop on that one. Um, really good opportunity there. And then parcel three is is kind of an interesting one. Um, it's just an 80 on that one. Um, kind of some some lighter sandy loam soils, um, but that had a really nice barley crop on it this year, um, really good access to that one as well. Um, and kind of a more uh more manageable size piece um for someone to be looking at there. And again, this one will be that that high better choice as well. So it'll be kind of interesting to see um which ones get uh which ones get taken off the board first for that one. And then I also have one other sale, another kind of mixed-use property here on the uh the Rembolt property. Um this one is in uh this one is in Logan County, uh just about 10 miles north of Lair, North Dakota. Um, really cool property here. It's got about um 85 or so crop acres on this one. What you can farm is really, really nice on this stuff. Had a really nice soybean crop on it. And then this one's got some nice fenced out pasture as well. Um, last I was out there uh was just about a month ago, and it had not been grazed all year. Uh so really lush looking pasture out there. And then there's also a building site on it. Um, the house is um a fixer upper for sure, but there's a really nice pole barn on there. Um it could be turned into a really nice um, you know, hunting cabin type of uh property down there. Um, so yeah, another cool mixed-use property um with uh really cool opportunity for for all types of buyers on that one.

SPEAKER_00:

So that sale is in Jamestown as well. That's what that's an 11 o'clock sale. So we'll do those back to back and and uh get uh get uh hopefully some some good bidding action and some buyers uh if they're in person there, we can get the purchase agreements drafted. And then uh and then in that afternoon we are on our way to Valley City um for 160 acres that uh that Bob is handling over by Brona, if I remember right. Um really good parcel of land, uh almost 80 productivity index. It's basically all tillable. Um I can see really, really investors and farmers um um really really liking this parcel. So um if you haven't had a chance, go to Pifers.com, look at the aerial photos, look at the soils, look at the pictures that we have on there. Um, we got drone footage of of all these properties that Jack talked about, and and uh it gives you a good good sense of of what it is if you haven't if you won't be able to make it out there and look at it in person.

SPEAKER_02:

So a lot of good sales the next coup follow-up days too, there, Steve. We've got uh uh sales on the 14th, and we're gonna start with uh some of the basically the the land from the Fred Berger estate. Uh great livestock producer and and cattlemen across the upper Midwest region. We're we're uh fortunate to have the opportunity to represent his family coming up here with uh some properties in or in uh Stark County and and uh in that part of the world too.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, let's talk about the 14th a little bit. So we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven uh sales that uh that day. Um and there is some fantastic cropland down in Edmonds County and pasture land. And then we go over to McLean County and sell 300 acres over there of cropland, the Grant County stuff, um, 371 acres or uh of of of pasture land, but this is not just pasture land. Um Jack, I don't know, were you able to go out there and take take a look at this uh at this property?

SPEAKER_01:

I was yep. I'm not the uh the lead agent on this sale, but I was able to go out and drone this property and a really cool um piece of piece of property here. Um yeah, the Reese land auction in Grant County. Um, you know, there's parts of it that could be put back into production. Um it's some some previously cropped that's that's currently in grass, but a really nice draw. Uh I don't know the name of the creek that runs through the entire property, but um uh really well set up for for hunters. Saw a bunch of deer and and birds out there when I was out there droning it. Um, turkey, a lot of turkeys down in that area too. Um, so yeah, definitely one to keep an eye on if you're looking for hunting land in that part of the state.

SPEAKER_02:

Next week's an exciting week there, Steve. Let's uh continue that conversation after we come back from this break. You listen to America's Land Auctioneer, brought to you by Piper's Auction Realty and Land Management. We'll be back to talk more about the October upcoming land auctions right after this. Welcome back to America's Land Auctioneer. I'm your host, we have to build a lot of people. As always, America's Land Auctioner is brought to you by Piper's Auction Realty and Land Management from first hand shape to the final bid. We're always here for you and our clients, as well as our customers and our buyers. We're here to make sure that everybody's uh has a smooth transition. But I tell you what, there's a lot of opportunities still to talk about as we move forward here. Jack and Steve, we've been talking about next week's land auctions. There's seven on Tuesday. You talked about the uh Emmons County property. Uh, we also have another thousand acres in Emmons County. That's a thousand acres of grassland, and that kind of ties in with what we talked about at the beginning part of the show. You got a thousand acres of continuous product or contiguous productive grassland, uh, just a few miles out of Linton, North Dakota, which I would actually consider one of the meccas or one of the central parts of North Dakota as far as uh livestock production. There's a tremendous amount of uh livestock producers in that part of the world, all the way through Kidder County, southern Burley County, and Damons County. Um, just you know, really, really good cattle, really good productivity and awesome grassland. Here's an opportunity at a thousand acres. Uh, following that, you've got 300 acres in McLean County, uh, the 371 acres you talked about in Grant County earlier with a trip with a nice little hunting piece there. And then we've got Stark County and Sheridan County, two properties also uh brought to you by uh the uh Fred Berger family, and uh really, really nice parcels there as well. You got 104 acres that literally set sits just on the south side of uh of Leffer, North Dakota. Uh if anybody knows where that is, right on the uh uh on the highway. It's right off the highway, just uh it might even border the metropolis of Lefford. So there could be some development on development opportunity in the future, right? Steve. Yeah, that's a hundred that's 104 acres of of uh of basically 100 cropland and in a really, really nice area. And then the Sheridan County property is 200 acres of really productive grassland coming from a great uh cattle producer. So uh a lot of great things happening there uh next week.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, and I I don't want to pass over the the the the property that's uh that Fred Berger was involved in. Um we lost Fred uh January 30th of this year, and he was a friend of of of all of us, and especially in our industry. Um it was easy to to get to know Fred, and he was just a great, great asset and a great friend of ours. And so um we put a little blurp in our fall catalog, and so encourage people to to open that up and and page 36 and read about Fred um a little bit there. But uh, but then the other thing that that I want to highlight on the 14th is after those sales, we are gonna we're gonna go over to um I believe we're going over to the holiday in to to host a land seminar. So we're calling it the the Midwest Farm Land Seminar, and we're gonna talk a lot about um what we're seeing in the market and what what happened that week um with land values, land rents, and equipment values, and it'll give a chance for um people to see us in person and uh and talk about um ask us questions in person, and so we can uh hammer out some of those details that we like to talk about. So you bet.

SPEAKER_02:

And then the next couple of days uh to wrap up the the week and what we've always considered uh part of the Western Dakota land auctions, uh we're gonna go right into uh uh Dickinson, North Dakota, and offer property just west of New England. And that's 426, 427 acres. Uh, I believe about 410 of it's tilable, so 80, 90 or 90 percent plus cropland, uh, 65 soil PI, a really, really strong piece just off of the uh highway of Highway 21. Um kind of right there in the middle of uh pheasant hunting mecca of the world, you know, New England, uh Slope County, Adams Hedinger, Bowman County, really, really uh good opportunities if you're looking to hunt on some birds opening weekend coming up. Uh then the following day, we're gonna go back and offer some more grassland, and that's one parcel, 633 acres, in Fallon County, Montana, just north of Baker. Uh, really good property here as well, exceptional water, got uh got good live water, excellent stock dams on it. Uh, there is pipeline water on this property as well, good fences all around, and like we talked about earlier, really good uh accessibility with a with a well-maintained county road. And the good kind of the county roads over in in Fallon County uh specifically, a lot, you know, largely in parts of a lot of oil field activity, not necessarily on this property or near this property, but just down the road. So there's always good good roads uh uh to take you through the uh the rural parts of Fallon County. But then, like you said, Steve, we've got another opportunity on the eastern side of South Dakota on the the next day.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, so our schedule uh worked out for for me personally and and and Jack to get us back closer to home on Friday. And uh so so in in the in the um uh we're gonna host that sale in Millbank, but uh the property is over by uh is west of west of Millbank and and uh east of Eblin, I believe, um in that in that area. Um and really good cropland. Boy, do they know how to grow crops in that area. They're good, good, good professional farmers, which is a lot of territory that we do, but that that area they they know how to grow crops and and some of the non-crop area. It looks like there's some some trees and could be some some hunting opportunity there as well, too. So um I'm excited about uh that that mill bank um area. I think it's gonna be an area that we are gonna continue to have more and more sales at. So um, so that's a that's a fun area to be.

SPEAKER_02:

Yep. That's gonna wrap up a really good week with about 15 land auctions, 16 land auctions, uh, and plus the land seminar. And again, if you guys are in the Bismarck area, uh October 14th, that's next Wednesday, October 14th, or sorry, Tuesday, Tuesday, October 14th at 5:30 at the holiday in. Join Piffers Auctioneers, all the all of those of us from uh America's Land Auctioneer, come and ask all the questions you uh that you have. Uh kind of an open format. You can see uh firsthand what all the stats and the details have been for uh the first part of 2025 and what the outlook might be for 2026. Um, a lot of great things coming up in uh in the following weeks too. Steve and and Jack, we've got a lot of great properties. You're gonna trace uh across the opposite corner of the state uh the following week and go up to Divide County, then over to Burke County, Mount Trail, and Ward Counties, uh about 1,500 acres for sale in uh on October 20th and 21st, and then work your way towards rugby uh for 1432 acres in Benson and Pierce County. Uh really, really nice property up there in that in that rugby neck of the woods. Um, Jack, have you had a chance to uh step foot on that property yet?

SPEAKER_01:

That one I have, and I wish I wish I did get the chance to get out there, but I have not.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay. Uh really good unit by itself, anywhere from uh 500 acre parcel all the way down to 160. There's uh good cropland mixed with really good uh good grassland. But again, take a look at that one. Uh it's gonna be offered in I believe seven, eight different parcels. It's gonna be offered eight different parcels, 1400 acres, 1,400 acres, and uh just outside uh part of it's right off of highway two, and then a little bit further to the north up by uh north of Knox.

SPEAKER_00:

So yeah, and Darren Peterson and Cory Longneck are handling that uh that that sale, and they're uh they're really knowledgeable about that area and that cropland. So I encourage people to to give them a call and and ask them the questions on it because uh that is that's a that's a that's a really neat, nice property there.

SPEAKER_02:

Get some timed online only sales coming up uh that that same week as well, October 22nd, 23rd. Um, we got another one that that opens there and doesn't close until the 30th. And that basically wraps up what we're gonna see for a busy uh second half of October. Um Steve, we got three sales there in a row and and a couple more coming up that are online only. And Piper's primarily notable for uh for our live auctions and the fact that we're gonna continue to show strength in the live auction markets and and and show that you know why it's so beneficial. But you mentioned earlier today that there's you know opportunity for for some timed online auctions. What's kind of your guiding strategy to to send somebody to a timed online auction?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I think um I think some of it has to do with uh with the the seller's preference um on it, but more so the Buyer profile, if we think it's going to be an investor buyer, if we think that the the acreage maybe um the number of parcels, if they're single parcels, it's it's a little bit more convenient for bidders to bid online. Um they would have time to to to bid on it. If it's a unique um hunting only property, those tend to be uh work well on um on online only. Some of the commercial properties um that we have, that tends to work well on online only. Um so that that all goes into it. And and our salespeople are really good at meeting with the sellers and kind of devising a plan on what what's going to work best. Uh um, you know, it's uh timed online only when there's multiple parcels. Each one of the parcels are bid, um, they're linked together um and and such. So that that that works out all right. But the high bidder choice on the live auction is is sometimes uh more conducive. And so multiple parcels, it seems like a live auction is is is preferred, but um, yeah, we just really work with the sellers on what's going to work best for them.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, and the one thing about this business, and and we've all seen this over time, is there are no two situations alike, right? There's no two there's there are no two sellers that have the same goals, there's no two sellers that are in the same financial uh situation or or have the same strategy. So every every sale needs to be customized from from beginning to end, and and it all starts with uh with with having those type of discussions. And I think that's why you'll see you know a handful of those scattered throughout our throughout our schedule, but still, we've got a lot of a lot of great sales coming up. Uh the following week, we're gonna start getting into November. Steve and Jack, uh November's not gonna be much slower than than October. Uh, I want to start off, we got a thousand acres in Emmons County uh that Darren's gonna be offering. And that is a nice is a nice contiguous unit there as well.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, and historically that that area has has really produced some really high land sales. And so, um, you know, and so with the with the fact that that the cropland is so good and and and the non-crop they've really taken care of, and it looks like they planted a lot of trees and and have have that uh hunting opportunity on it. It'll this will this will be uh this will be a really nice offering that that buyers and bidders um should should should take notice of and spend the time and get to know it and and participate in.

SPEAKER_02:

Yep. Gonna follow that thail with another 320 acres just down the road, uh also in Emmons County. There's 160 acres in Barnes County, 457 acres in Mercer County. Both of those sales will be in uh beyond November 4th. We're gonna start in Jamestown and work your way towards Mandan. And then we've got 73 acres down in our uh Soup Hall, South Dakota Regional Office uh in Worthing. And that's gonna be 73 acres in Turner County uh coming up here as well. So uh a lot of great uh a lot of great sales to start that first week of November.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, Jack, how's that Barnes County one? Um is that have you you've been on that one quite a bit, haven't you?

SPEAKER_01:

Yep, that one's being managed by uh me and uh Christian Miller. Um that's actually the uh the Kevin O'Meara land and uh the O'Mara family's been uh a great friend of uh of Piffers for for our basically for 25 years since this company has started. That's a a really nice property uh just outside uh of Jamestown, North Dakota. Just um, you know, I think it's the the first exit east of Jamestown, is what you take to get to that one. Um had a really nice corn crop on it, uh very productive land.

SPEAKER_02:

You bet. Well, that brings us to our uh uh to the end of our third segment, ladies and gentlemen. You're missing listening to America's Land Auctioneer brought to you and powered by Pipers Auction Realty and Land Management. Uh sponsored each and every week here. If you're in the market for land, real estate, uh farmland, commercial properties, or if you want stuff to bring a land manager out and talk about some of your options, give us a call or log on to pipers.com for all details and upcoming sales. We'll be right back. Welcome back to America's Land Auctioneer. I'm Andy Murnoch here with Piper's Auction Realty and Land Management alongside with Steve Link, Jack Piper. Uh, we're gonna get into our fourth and final segment here for America's Land Auctioneer on this Saturday morning. We want to thank our sponsors at Piper's Auctioneers, and uh we still want to continue talking about some of the upcoming sales. There's I don't know, dozens of land and equipment auctions scattered throughout the upper Midwest, and you can see all of the inventory, full details, pictures, uh, and and of course we have online bidding all at Pipers.com. Uh Steve, we've talked about October. We've we've basically touched on the first part of November. Um it it's it's hard to think that we're already looking towards uh you know the end of Halloween and Thanksgiving around the corner, and people are already starting to make holiday plans for Christmas, but there's a lot of business to be conducted between now and then. We're gonna get into November, but I really want to start off this um this last segment with an opportunity that you guys uh have brought to the table. There's 1,760 acres in Cass County. Everybody's talking about this sale from Washington to Maine. We want to see uh uh what you're seeing for activity, what you're seeing for interest, and uh tell us a little bit about that property.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, so that is the Wool property, and it is a dynamic sale. So we the Johnny Wool, who was actually the nephew of of uh Bill Langer, the governor, former governor. And so the the the Langer family owned lots of land in the the Castleton area, and uh and John Wool was uh was a nephew and he expanded onto that land holdings and has owned it, you know, since since the patent, right? And so this land hasn't changed hand for for for centuries or for a century, you know, and and and so it's exciting, it's an exciting opportunity for people that have driven by that property their whole life, um, for investors that are looking at uh picking up some of the best land in in the North Dakota has to offer. Um we also are selling a couple commercial buildings, just uh there are pole buildings that are in in Castleton. Um, and that is an online only auction that ends November 5th, and then November 6th at the holiday end, 10 o'clock is the 1,763 acres. Um, most all of those parcels, 12 out of the 14 parcels are farmland. Um, the one parcel is an iconic uh farmstead that's right across from the reservoir where we held our machinery auction. Um people have driven by that. If you've driven by it, you're gonna remember it. Um the house had has quite a bit of deferred maintenance on it, but uh the the main house is is a really neat house if somebody would take the energy to to restore it. Um a building they affectionately called the mall is you know 300 over 300 feet long, and and uh you can you can store everything in there if you if if if you if you wanted to. Um but 10 acres right on the edge of Castleton. And then the other uh non-cropland parcel has a tower lease on it that really pays out really well. So I encourage people to go on site or go online and look at that. Call me up, I can give them a tour of the property. We also have the mansion that's in town. We have that listed through our traditional listing side. Um, and that's a uh a huge iconic mansion in Castleton. Um, we got that price at$749,000. Um, so it's it's it's relatively affordable for as many square feet as you're getting in the bedrooms and bathrooms and all kinds of opportunity on that. So I could talk. We should probably have done a whole show on that, on that whole subject, because I can tell you tons of stories about Johnny Wool and their family. And Inez, Inez became a really good friend of mine and ours at our company. Um, she passed away earlier this year, and so the family has been fantastic to work with. So taking up too much time, but I'm really excited about that property coming up.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, without a doubt. And again, the 1763 acres, it basically stretches all the way from Castleton to Wheatland. Um, you know, Steve, maybe touch on some of the development opportunities on this property as well. Because they're yeah, the the parcels.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, parcels one, two, and three and four, they are all right there on Highway 10 and Highway 18 on the intersection, which is the northwest side of Castleton, right across from the park. All of that, you know, you could see one day there might be uh it might be an opportunity to develop that into residential. But in the meantime, you're owning some of the best farmland in the area. It's 91 productivity index, it's got great access. Um, there's drainage uh right there. And so it's just it's it's it's a win-win for an investor or producer um because you can farm it forever and leave it as that. And and if you decide to change it to the next uh transition, you can do that, and it's it's in a great location. Um the other the other parcel half section is is right on Highway 10 and uh the Lynchburg exit right where the ethanol plant is, that intersection. So that might have some alternative for then farmland opportunities in the future. And then there's three quarters, short quarters that are right along the interstate on the north side of the interstate, and so um the visibility there. The access isn't uh isn't like like some of the other parcels, but uh the visibility is fantastic there. So there's a little bit of everything for every uh anybody on this on this offering.

SPEAKER_02:

Yep, absolutely. And there's uh a lot of a lot of other good sales, the balance of November, but uh that's definitely one of the highlights. We'll obviously talk about uh some of the more uh notable November auctions as we get uh into the upcoming weeks here for America's Land Auctioneer. I do want to touch a little bit about uh 2,500 acre opportunity in Bowman in Slope County. Uh, we just put this up on the website here about a week ago. You've got 2,500 acres. We're gonna offer this in four different parcels, and this is what I was talking about earlier, Steve and Jack. We've got uh four larger parcels, one track's a thousand acres, one track is 960 acres, give or take, a couple tracks in um in that two to 250 to 400 acre range, and just west and uh southwest of marmouth, North Dakota, uh right up against the Montana border. But if we're looking for good productive grassland, this is a spot. If you're wanting to be in the in the center and then the heart of cattle country, this is the location. Uh we're right off of the the breaks of the Little Missouri River. We've got the Beaver Creek River going right through this, a very, very well watered, uh good established water across the board on all these parcels, or right off of Highway 12. But you've got basically 2,500 acres, a little bit of uh cropland that's utilized for hay land uh intermingled uh amongst the amongst the trees. Uh parcel two, I think, is probably going to be the maybe the most sought after property, not just in in terms of its grazing productivity, but it sits kind of down in the uh Little Beaver Creek uh valley uh bottom. It's a tree-lined creek, which is it, you know, as far as the other thing you're talking about earlier, Steve, you know, uh rich commodities out here in western North Dakota, especially by marmot's trees. So when you have an opportunity to get a property uh along the river with some trees, it's uh it certainly is uh a pretty spot to be. That piece actually is relatively remote. It's uh just about a quarter of a mile trail to get back into the property. Really, really good hunting uh property, probably one of the more premier hunting uh opportunities in in all of the offerings this fall. Uh big white-tailed deer, uh mule deer uh populations over in this part of the world. Great opportunity to step up and buy a couple hundred acres right along the river valley uh where nobody else can get to it. So uh really nice piece there for for just about anybody listening from the uh from the metro areas and anywhere from Dickinson to Fargo. If you're looking for good hunting ground, marmoth is always one of the hot spots or Mecca's in the in the western North Dakota when it comes to large games. So uh really good opportunity there as well. Anybody can have time or sell equipment in between there, Andy? Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. Anybody can check out all of our land auctions are all at Pipers.com, but we do have four really good uh equipment auctions coming up here to wrap up the fall as well. Uh nothing in in October. You guys all heard the the October uh land schedule. We pushed all the all the equipment auctions into November and beyond. Uh, we're gonna start off in Steel North Dakota at our Central Dakota fall equipment auction. Consignments are still open. You have the ability to consign your equipment here all the way until next Friday for uh for the ad deadline. Uh the following Fred line, uh the following Friday will be the uh the cutoff date for consignments. Going to be built into a tremendous sale. Um, Kevin and Jack and Steve and uh everybody has been uh basically involved in in helping set up with uh Jim Savvy to do all the state equipment auction. That was coming up on November 18th, and uh gonna be a really, really nice sale outside of Streeter, North Dakota, offering uh you know some really modern John Deere farm equipment, all the way down to you know some age tractors and age farm equipment for for anybody. So we got a 2020, 92 uh 9624 tracks uh John Deere tractor, 620 horse uh quad track.

SPEAKER_01:

We've we'll be live on site for that one, right?

SPEAKER_02:

This will be a live auction. Yeah, but all of these are going to be live auctions with the exception of our upper Midwest sale coming up in December. So uh there's a John Deere 6175R, and of course the 2022 Fent 10 1050 Vario. Really nice, big heavy-duty high horsepower tractor there as well. So all the supporting equipment, harvest equipment, uh trucks, trailers, everything to go along with it. Uh, really good property or really good uh equipment auction coming up for the walled sale. And then we've got uh the upper midwest sale uh happening in December as well. That one's featuring the Bob and Angela Carlson retirement auction here in Mott Region. Guys, that's gonna wrap up our show. Thanks for joining us, everybody, trying to get through as much as we could here today. Thanks for listening to America's Land Auctioneer, powered by Piper's Auction Realty and Land Management each and every week. We'll see you all next week.