America’s Land Auctioneer
Captivate and celebrate the dynamics of rural America, American Agriculture and inspire and teach others how to live a bold and abundant life in rural America. Background: The intrigue, endless opportunities, and romance of rural life in America have never been more on the minds of Americans. The recent pandemic and civil unrest have Americans of all ages earning for a more peaceful, less hectic life. Even billionaire Bill Gates is now the largest crop landowner in America. As many Americans look for peaceful refuge in the rolling hills and wheat fields they are faced with a richness of opportunities. But where do you begin to look? This show will highlight and feature endless opportunities in every state. What is it that is so unique about rural America, the land and what it produces? How can I live that life? The American Land Auctioneer will tell stories and weave into those stories a place for you to dream, live and enjoy the abundance of all that rural America has to offer.
America’s Land Auctioneer
Strong Prices, Stronger Land Deals
Rare land doesn’t wait. We open the gates on a decisive moment for ag buyers and sellers across the Upper Midwest, from a brisk harvest to a Casselton land auction that drew heavy, disciplined bidding and a single operator sweeping premium tracts. We talk through what set those parcels apart—soils, location near crush and ethanol plants, and development pressure—and why smart buyers are ignoring short‑term commodity noise to lock in long‑run productivity.
From there, we head northwest to a Bobells‑area quarter with strong soils and clean rent potential, then swing south and west to Bowman and Slope counties where mixed grass, hay land, and Little Beaver Creek frontage create diversified returns and standout hunting value. The spotlight turns to a tri‑state, 6,900‑acre ranch designed for 12‑month operations, with pipelines, wells, Box Elder and Sheep creeks, and interspersed cropland for feed security. With cattle prices at historic highs, we unpack how year‑round flexibility, water distribution, and unit sizing can reshape a buyer’s calculus heading into 2025.
If gear is your focus, we break down equipment you can put to work right now: late‑model UTVs, telehandlers, and skid steers at Steele; a Streeter estate anchored by a 9620RX and a low‑hour Fendt 1050 Vario plus a 624K high‑lift loader; and a live‑broadcast consignment stacked with livestock equipment, loader tractors, hay tools, and premium trailers. We also preview the South Dakota winter auction featuring utility wheel loaders, front‑assist tractors, sprayers, and more—all with live bidding to maximize transparency and discovery.
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Welcome to America's Land Auctioneer. I'm your host, Andy Murnock, here in this fine Saturday morning, sitting in studio side by side with my sidekick, Jim Sabby. Welcome, Jim.
SPEAKER_00:Good morning. What a beautiful, cool, brisk weekend.
SPEAKER_01:It's been uh been kind of up and down here for weather. We're still deep into or getting into November now. We haven't had any winter moisture thus far. Really haven't had a lot of winter weather yet. Uh dealing with a little bit of breeze, a little bit of wind here on uh different days, but uh you know, we're out in the countryside here all week uh looking at equipment, setting some equipment up for some upcoming sales. We've been uh flying the drone, still looking at land here all fall. Uh we haven't had to stop doing any of that stuff. Uh thank goodness we're we're still uh deep into where we can start getting some work done.
SPEAKER_00:And farmers are thinking the same thing with trying to finish up the flowers and the corn. And and I know most of the beans are about off, but flowers and corn seem to be the big ones they're trying to get off right now.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, here in the southwest corner, it looks like most of the uh most of the crop is off. And you know, sunflowers are starting to get uh pretty much removed off of all the fields here as of right now. But uh this week we went basically from Lemon over to uh McLaughlin straight north up through that part of the world and back on Highway 21. And there's a lot of crops still standing in the same portion of the state.
SPEAKER_00:And they've had a lot of moisture. You know, we checked that out uh uh the other day, I know Flasher a week ago or whatever did have like four and a half inches. So we're look we're looking at that, and you can see there's water sitting all over. So they've had it'll be a little while before they get in over there, and hopefully they can get them finished up and get the right weather to uh get their fuels cleaned up, put the machines away uh in the sheds and worry about next year.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, without a doubt. Well, good luck to everybody who sells some crop to get off and get harvested. Uh hope you got uh hope you run out of bin space. That's always the uh the goal here, as much as we can possibly get to it. So uh, ladies and gentlemen, we thank you guys for joining us here uh each and every weekend here in your favorite uh uh station and/or podcast uh source. We appreciate you joining us here for America's Land Auctioneer. Uh, I invited Jim Savy to join me here today. We want to talk a little bit about uh some of the the most recent market updates. We've got a lot of exciting things that have happened in the uh land business across the upper Midwest, uh specifically one that we'll talk about here in a little bit near Castleton, North Dakota. Tremendous uh land auction that happened here just uh a couple of days ago, here on Thursday, uh November 6th. So uh just a couple of days ago, we'll give you a full update here on that sale. We've got lots of great land auctions coming up, as we've been talking about, dozens of land and equipment auctions listed at Pipers.com. You can always go check out full inventory, full details on every one of the auction sales at Pipers.com. And if you have any questions about any of the upcoming land auctions, or if you want uh a little more detailed analysis of any of the uh market reports, feel free to give any one of Piper's representatives a call, especially the uh agents who are representing each uh individual property that you're looking at. Uh, but there's a lot of sales coming up here, and we're starting to string them into next year already into 2026.
SPEAKER_00:You know, and we we're booking some into June already and next September um out here in western North Dakota. But we visited a lot of people and they're talking about wanting to do their sales next spring. A lot of a lot of people retiring, you know. Um this last couple years been kind of mentally tough on a few people, but now they're at the age where they say we don't have to deal with that anymore. You know what? I'm 70 some years old. I want to go and have fun and go to Arizona in the wintertime.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, we're still definitely in the uh middle of what we're gonna call one of the biggest land flips in American history. And and and we're probably in year three or four or five of uh of maybe a 15 or 20 year baby boomer flip. And so there's a lot of uh a lot of opportunity in the land markets coming up, but uh as of right now, it for a little while it felt like a buyer's market, it still feels like a seller's market, so we're kind of in equilibrium, it seems like you know, the the market itself is really uh hanging tight and holding true. But for those who are interested in selling right now, Jim, are you seeing anything on the as far as data or economy, anything that's pushing for you know to try to get things done in 25 versus 26? Uh the year end flip between uh this year and next year, you know, we're not looking at an administration change. No, uh any new administration policies that are coming into place are certainly in place or already being talked about. So the you know the it the effect on the market has probably already been had. Uh, we're not seeing a lot of tax implications between this year and next year. There's nothing uh nothing new as far as uh you know the end of the year turning into a new tax year. So uh any any take like that or any of your uh uh comments about stuff like that?
SPEAKER_00:One thing everybody's really concerned about is uh the commodity prices. And you know, I visited with a guy the other day, just booked a sale up by Bull Bills, North Dakota, a land sale, and he was he'd like he wanted to get it done as quick as possible because he thinks that maybe it's gonna be a little bit tougher on uh by spring on some of these guys um that are younger, that are looking to rent land, maybe they won't have the ability to do it. And you know, we deal with that all the time, you know. There's always speculation of this and that with commodity prices, but you know, one disaster someplace in the world is gonna change a lot of things. But we saw that up in that that area of bobells, and it's it's very good land. And we notice that in the Castleton sale and the ones around Bismarck Mandin. If it's good land, it's gonna bring good money. If it's mediocre or stuff that you really can't get much of a return on, or it's just kind of wasteland, uh, it's gonna be a little tough for sell. But what he's got up there is 77 PI dirt, it's gonna be a very good sale for him.
SPEAKER_01:One thing about really good land is you never buy it when it's convenient for you. You know, you're talking about commodity prices, and of course, we'd all like to see uh a big run up in in commodity values. Uh for those of us who are who are actively farming and and trying to trying to play those, play the markets as well as as much as possible, but it really is a short-term game. Yeah, and we're looking for long, you know, long-term longevity out of the out of the commodity prices. Uh, there is the ability for extra storage. On-farm storage is higher now than it's ever been in in history, so there's there's opportunity there. But in the whole grand scheme of things, the commodity values is always a short-term game, and we got to look years down the road. Now, with that said, when good land's available, you don't buy it when it's convenient, you buy it when it's available.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and we're seeing that now. And and we have a lot of guys out here with a lot of storage and built more storage this year, and then all the white bags laying around the country. Um, you know, from basically state line to Canadian line, there's a lot of bags out there, but these guys are ready to to buy that good land. Um, but where they kind of sit back and and pull the reins in on kind of some of that uh other ground, but uh really good ground, you know, we're we're seeing a good market for and there's not a lack of buyers. There's just not as many as it used to be. You know, we probably had 30 people that wanted to buy that now, or 10, 15, or 8, 9, somewhere right now. But people are always looking at that good ground.
SPEAKER_01:But then again, we look at the uh sale we had on Thursday. We had about 70 uh registered bidders for for that particular auction. Uh really large, uh large sale as as far as the uh the grand scheme of the Red River Valley. 1763 acres, Jim. What a tremendous sale it was on Thursday. Uh brought to you uh by Piper's Auction, Steve Link, uh Kevin Piper, those guys brought a really nice sale to the to the docket. We've got uh right outside of Castleton, bordered the city of Castleton.
SPEAKER_00:You know, you and I got a chance to look at that when they had the machinery sale down there and kind of cleaned up everything for the estate with old vehicles, tractors, but some pretty nice machinery down there. But we're sitting there, and you know, you and I being from Western North Dakota, we kind of just love looking at land like that. I mean, just lace and nice, the crops beautiful. If we had some of that out in western North Dakota, we we probably wouldn't know what to do. But I know your brother farming would love to have one quarter of that anyway.
SPEAKER_01:But I think if we took a semi-load of scorer out there for people who put buildings on and brought a semi-load of topsoil back, we could probably make some money here in the freight.
SPEAKER_00:I think we could, but you know, that land was uh what a what a place. Uh low we talk about location. I mean, you're right there next to the ethanol plant, the soybean plant, um, the city of Castleton. So you had many entities that were looking at um farmers looking at it, and then maybe some developers looking at that ground.
SPEAKER_01:Without a doubt. They really nice development across the road from this property here as well. Uh basically had a buyer come in and the first three parcels went out, went out the shoot at twelve thousand three hundred dollars an acre. Uh, you know, not gonna say it's record setting here in this area, but dang sure one of the one of the more strong or stronger, more productive uh parcels of land, and and and the value certainly reflected it.
SPEAKER_00:You know, and it was a fun sale to watch as we're sitting back here. Uh Allie has it up on the computer, but it was fun to watch to see how much activity there was with uh the people on site, plus the when you have all the people online. And I know one time today she had a lot of people watching, and I can't remember what the number was. About 150. Yeah, watching the sale, and I think there was 30 to 50 uh that were registered for it. But when you look at that, I mean people from all over the country were really looking at that, and you know, some thought maybe they could get a little bit cheaper, commodity prices down, soybeans are low. Um, that didn't work. This was uh really uh good aggressive farmers going after this.
SPEAKER_01:That's what it comes down to. Like again, what we talked about. You don't buy when it's when it's convenient for you to make that purchase, you buy when it's available, and and uh generational operations like this don't come available very often. Uh the next round of bidding uh took off about$11,000 an acre. Uh the third round of bidding uh took a couple parcels off the table at 10.6, then went 10.5, and then finally the the the last two parcels were taken at 9,500. So uh really solid, uh you know, really solid value across the board, uh stronger than probably most people were projecting for that particular auction sale, but what a tremendous sale it was. And we should note one buyer stepped in and was the high bidder across the board.
SPEAKER_00:Right. One guy, one farmer. Um, and you know, he's a very aggressive farmer uh throughout the up, you know, over in that area and uh in central North Dakota. So he's he's not afraid to step up to the plate and do what he has to do to purchase land.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, but I think the uh you know success breeds success when it comes to land auctions. I think we're uh uh you're gonna see this momentum carry into the the next few weeks for certain, especially in the eastern side of North Dakota. Uh there's a lot of tremendous, really, really good sales coming up uh as well. We've got some in South Dakota coming up. All of the sales again are at Pipers.com. Uh there's two southwestern Minnesota land auctions as well. Uh we've got 675 acres coming up in Ward County, North Dakota. We've got 849 acres in Williams County. That's happening on November 19th. Really nice sale up in the uh uh edge of the Badlands or edge of the Missouri Breaks, Missouri Valley breaks. Uh 458.6 acres in Morton County. Uh we're gonna work down our way down to Winter, South Dakota for 480 acres in Tripp County, 160 acres in Grand Forks County, 140 acres in Pembina County, and that's gonna get us basically through November. But what a tremendous lineup of auction sales that we've got coming up.
SPEAKER_00:We still have a lot of sales left to go, and you know the the one I you we just booked up at Bobell's, that's a December sale. And we have people that, you know, we've got a big land auction right here in Bowman uh for some land in the Badlands. But I mean, we're looking that December is gonna be a great time, also.
SPEAKER_01:Yep, without a doubt. We do have a lot of sales we're gonna talk about here after the break here, ladies and gentlemen. Stay with us. We're gonna talk about some of the uh western North Dakota, eastern Montana land auctions, some breaking news there about 10,000 acres coming up here in the uh southwest corner of North Dakota. Uh take a look at Pipers.com. You'll be able to check out all of the inventory for all the upcoming auction sales at Pipers.com. Whether you're in the market to buy or sell land, equipment, or real estate, trust the team that's built on experience and results, Pipers, auction realty, and land management. Their farm and ranch auctioneers, land brokers, and land managers are the best in the business. Visit Pipers.com today because when it comes to the auction and land sales, nobody does it better. Nobody does it better than Pipers, and we're going to be right back after this break. We are back for segment number two and five, four, three, two. Welcome back to America's Land Auction here. Andy Murnock sitting side by side in studio today with Jim Sabby, uh Pipers Auction, Realty, and Land Management. Both of us are here right here out of Bowman, North Dakota. Uh, Piper's Regional Office in Bowman. Again, whether you're selling or buying land, equipment, or real estate, contact any one of your team members at Pipers. They sponsor this uh broadcast each and every week on your favorite radio station and or podcast, Apple, Spotify, or uh wherever Samsung Google Play, I think is how that one goes. But anyway, for those of you guys who are listening and uh joining us here this morning, we welcome you to the show uh every week and thanks for joining us again. We uh left the first segment here talking about some of the upcoming land sales, and we we touched on all of them uh through this through uh November. Uh we had a uh really nice land auction we just finished talking about over by Castleton, North Dakota, just uh just this past week. But Jim, um just fresh on the website is uh property that you've got uh uh that you're representing up there by Bobells, North Dakota.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, you know, it's kind of funny. Um got a phone call this last week, and a gentleman just asked if I'd come out and book his land for sale. He said, I I know you guys and and I know uh your daughter's family that she married into up here. So I went up there and and I tell you what, it's gonna be the last sale of the year for us, you know, through the for the winter uh for December anyway. But uh what a nice gentleman. Uh, you know, got to visit with him all the way over to the land. It's over by Bobell's, kind of northeast of Bobells, and uh and it I get up there and and it's some productive land. I mean, soils are very good on it. Um, you can see it really lays nice, and yeah, typical up there, there's some potholes on about every piece of land you look at. But the quarter next to it probably had, I don't know, maybe a million snow geese on it. I mean, you couldn't have found a spot for another snow up there. And he said, Yeah, he said this place just gets covered up. And he said, Sometimes you can't hear anything, you know, there's just so loud up there.
SPEAKER_01:Free fertilizer.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah, free fertilizer. But uh, you know, it it does have uh, you know, kind of a little waterway through it and some low areas, but uh, you know, they had rain now, and it there's some water sitting there. Um, but everything got farmed last year, and they were very happy about that. And he had a great renter all these years, and now he decided to sell this. So it's about 160 acres, 144 on this property by Bobell. So look at our website. Um, you're gonna see it Willis Swenson up there, uh, you're gonna see his property pop up, and uh that's gonna be a nice sale for this fall. So, anybody interested for uh good land up in that country, and that country there is good land, and then there's stuff that isn't.
SPEAKER_01:Yep, and this is good land. You're talking uh soils in the mid to upper 70s across the board on 144 acres tilable. Really, really good opportunity if you're looking in that north-central tier of North Dakota. If you don't own anything up there, might be a good opportunity to step up here and and expand that portfolio into a into a really quiet area. It's a really, really nice spot, extremely good productive operations up there. They're they're they're progressive operations, and and and all the farmers really they're you know, they're they're good guys to go to the world.
SPEAKER_00:And some good young farmers up there that are really getting themselves established, and you know, you wouldn't have any problem getting it rented up there either.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, without a doubt. You know, Jim Sabby, you've got the uh kind of the the hometown pride of Scranton, North Dakota. Nobody's more proud of uh of Bowman County and especially eastern Bowman County than than you, but your second home is probably somewhere between Crosby and Mynod. Yes, as you've become kind of the foremost expert of of real estate in uh in the northwestern corner of the state as well.
SPEAKER_00:You know, uh I had two kids go to school in Crosby, two daughters, and and my ex moved up there, and and it was you know, it was a great move for all of us because I was up there a lot and I got to meet a lot of people over a course of many years. And you know, I left you down here to carry the load, and I was up there. Well, all of a sudden we started getting a lot of land auctions and machinery auctions up there. Um, because of that, I was at every ball game, and Crosby's a great community, and Noonan and you know, we look at that. Columbus is another great one. Um, but you know, we've done a lot of sales over there. You you look at uh where we've been and our footprint up there, a lot of that was done with the years where my daughters are going to school up there, and now I have one living up there that's actually married to local Crosby.
SPEAKER_01:Uh well, I was just gonna say, you know, we should probably give a shout-out because the the first time you took me up there is about 35 below, and you said we need I said we need fuel, and you said we got to go to Sorhums, we got to give a shout-out to Sorums. Now your daughter's married to his family.
SPEAKER_00:She's married into that family. And what what I like about Sorums, it's a full station uh service station. You drive up and they come out and fill your vehicle for you. So it's 35 below, and I don't know what it was with the windshield, but boy, we were cold that day, and it was so nice to have them come out and pump our gas. But Crosby's a great community, been very good to my family and myself also, but it's also been very good to uh Pifers as a staff. You know, you and I've done a lot of work up there.
SPEAKER_01:Absolutely. And and again, it's uh it's such a good area, good, great, great productivity, you know, for for guys who farm around the uh the Castleton or Jamestown part of the world, they really probably don't even think about what's happening up in Divide or the County, but uh really, really impressive part of North Dakota.
SPEAKER_00:It is uh a lot of great crops up there, good land. Uh but those guys are very good farmers. They're more patient than anybody else I've seen in the farming business because you know they get snow in the fall, they say, well, I guess I'll get the crop in the spring. Um, but they're also very good at what they do up there, they know how to deal with the weather.
SPEAKER_01:Yep, and that'll be an online only auction coming up here, ladies and gentlemen. You guys can check it out at pipers.com. Again, coming up in December, we are offering 2,531 acres in Bowman and Slope Counties, and we're gonna offer that in four parcels. It can be larger parcels, but if you're looking for extremely good hunting land, grassland, great hay land, uh this this is probably the property for you for you. It's well watered. Uh, parcel number one, we're gonna go right down the line here because this sale's coming up here, pretty important one. Parcel number one's a thousand acres, one thousand seven acres. There's 172 acres of crop, so primarily grassland. Uh borders the uh the railroad in the board in the state of Montana. So it's right on the right on the border of Montana. You've got Krell Creek that winds its way all the way across the northern uh border of this parcel, and just a really, really productive parcel, great grass, native grasses. And yeah, if you want to come take a look at it, we'd be willing to take you around the uh around the pasture you know at your convenience. Just let us know. Uh, parcel number two, probably gonna drum up the majority of the interest uh as far as out of the area. If there's uh anybody in uh within a 2,000 mile radius that wants uh to find some really good uh hunting land in western Bowman County, really good property for for big game as well as uh well as pheasants. You know, you're starting to see a lot more pheasants over there on the side of the county as well, more uh more notably around Scranton. But parcel number two is 310 acres, and that one has the Little Beaver Creek winding its way all the way through it. There's trees all the way throughout the uh throughout the oh the river bank or the creek bank there as well, uh intermixed with a bunch of good hay land and just a nice little productive piece. It should generate a little uh pretty good return on your investment. Parcel number two is something worth looking at. Parcel three, located right along Highway 12, 244 acres of grass, got a really uh got a nice well in the middle of that one, solar power powered well, and goes up against the I'm gonna call them the rim rocks of the Badlands. It's right on the edge of the Badlands. This entire property lays just on the western edge of the little Missouri River Valley. Uh, really, you know, probably as pretty of an area as you're gonna find anywhere in North Dakota, all the way from Marmoth up to up to Medora. And everybody, you know, knows this part of the world, you know, for its stunning beauty and what you're what you're looking at. But also right on the edge of it, you're just you're gonna find really good productive grasses. Parcel four, another larger part parcel. This one's located north of the city of Marmoth, uh, probably five or six miles up there. 960 acres. There's 230 acres of grass. Uh, the balance of the property is very well watered. There's some natural uh uh natural water there with uh spring-fed uh tanks or spring-fed creeks. Uh South Mosquito Creek winds its way through that property there as well. Parcel number four is a really, really nice piece. It's right against the edge of the Badlands on the northern side. You've got uh Purdy Butte. Uh really kind of a stunning, stunning area, Jim.
SPEAKER_00:We've been there's been a lot of people out there looking at it. I I was out, uh went by there. I was going to Baker, Montana the other day and and pulled in down there and just kind of looked a little bit, and you can see a lot of tracks in and out. And and uh it's gonna be uh a great sale for the family, and I look forward to having that one on the books.
SPEAKER_01:It is. You don't find uh 2,500 acres available very often here, ladies and gentlemen. Come take a look at it. They are larger parcels, you're gonna find anywhere from 960 to a thousand acre parcels and two of them, and then you got a couple smaller ones that uh are uh that certainly offer something for everybody. Again, parcel number two, I think, uh should turn a lot of heads. Yes, very rare to find well, hard to find a property along the along any of these rivers down here, but uh the Little Beaver Creek is is definitely kind of one of those sought-after areas. So uh take a look at that one. Uh when we come back after the break here again, we're gonna talk about a 7,000-acre property offered between Bowman County, North Dakota, and Fallon County, Montana. Uh, another really tremendous uh piece, only just a few miles south of the 2,500 acres that we're offering by Marmoth. Uh there's lots of good auctions coming up here. You can check out all of the inventory at Pipers.com. If you're looking for a professional auction service or expert land management, contact Pipers Auction Realty and Land Management. They deliver proven success across the Midwest. With the best farm and ranch auctioneers and brokers in the industry, they'll keep they'll they'll keep getting you top dollar. Visit Pipers.com and see why nobody does it better than Pipers. Absolutely nobody in the business, and we'll be right back after this break. And we're back with America's Land Auctioneer segment number three and five, four, three. Welcome back to America's Land Auctioneer, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Andy Murnoch, side by side again in studio with Jim Sabby, based here out of the Bowman Regional Office for Piffers Auction, Realty, and Land Management. Your sponsor each and every week for America's Land Auctioneer on your favorite radio station andor podcast. Uh, tell you what, Jim, we've but covered a lot here already this morning, but uh let's get back into uh some more of the upcoming land sales, and then I've of course you and I need to get into some of the exciting and upcoming equipment auctions that we've got uh coming up down the pipeline as well.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, we do.
SPEAKER_01:So uh we we touched on the sale. We got the 2,500 acre property coming up in uh Bowman and Slope County. That one's happening on December 10th at one o'clock, right here in our office in Bowman. Uh the following day, we've got 775 acres in Mount Trail County just west of Stanley, right along Highway 2. And then we've got 1,176 acres southwest of Minot the same day. They're gonna offer uh almost 2,000 acres up in that portion of uh North Dakota as well. That's on December 11th. That property's southwest of Minot or straight south of the city of Berthold, uh really, really productive uh cropland uh uh property as well. There's 633 acres coming up in Nelson County the same day. Uh that auction's gonna be in Lakota. And to round out December, there's 160 acres in Cavalier County, 231 acres in January in Cass County. Uh that is gonna be kind of the uh the update for 2025. There might be a couple more popping up here. Uh pay attention to Pipers.com, but I do want to talk about the 6,923 acres that we've got in Bowman and Fallon County right here on the border of North Dakota and Montana, southwest of Bowman. That auction is gonna take place March 11th, right here in our facility in Bowman.
SPEAKER_00:You know what's nice about that is if you're looking to buy pasture, uh, we all know what the cattle market's like. And people are hitting record numbers uh uh dollars for their calves, the bread cows. You know, we last week in Bowman, I believe some of them hit 48.75 for some three to six-year-old cows that I mean they were just they were great cows and bred right and good genetics, but we're seeing a market that we've never seen before. And you know, with these calves, we're seeing a lot of them going out the door now at 2700 to 3,000, 3,100. I believe those guys from RAM sold some steer calves that brought 3,100 uh here in Bowman this last week. So there's a lot of look people looking for pasture to increase their herd, and then we have some of those that are at the end of their years of having cattle and saying, hey, you know, I'm gonna capitalize on this, I'm gonna get rid of the uh the cows, but you know, I've got pasture I can either lease out at a very good rate or sell it. So there's a lot of options going on here with this cattle market, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Without a doubt. And this property, uh, you know, given its location, you're right here in the very southwest corner of North Dakota. Uh the southern edge of the property, uh, of the North Dakota side is South Dakota, borders the borders the state lines. You're right there in the corner of the tri tri-state area. The Montana side, very productive piece, uh, about half and half between Montana and North Dakota, about 2,500 acres total of cropland uh intermingled uh amongst us. And in that part of the world, cropland's extremely valuable, given the fact that there just isn't a lot of it there.
SPEAKER_00:Right.
SPEAKER_01:You know, so you uh really multi-purpose. This is a this this operation is 100% set up to be a 12-month operation. You can run cattle year-round. There's enough uh enough feed base and enough uh cropland there to generate enough feed for your winter months, and what a great opportunity to to utilize all the cropland for fall grazing. Uh, there's tremendous water around the uh around the property, lots of pipelines, uh uh quite a few wells. And then, of course, um there's there's extra bonuses. You know, the 6900 is what's needed. There's some extra bonus land for between state land and federal BLM ground uh that that that tags along with this property as well. A lot of great uh information that you can find all of it at Pipers.com. But this is gonna be a great way to kick off 2026.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, and you know, we're looking at this and and we're trying to window we market of this, you know. We wanted to kind of get it so everybody had a chance this winter to to look at it and then maybe get some financing available, you know, because it's it's gonna be a big chunk. But you look at what people can go and do and and get their everything ready, come to our sale, and they're gonna be poised where they can either be buying cattle this winter or buying them after the sale, but it it's gonna be a tremendous day.
SPEAKER_01:It is. You got a 7,000-acre ranch here with a really modest uh uh ranch headquarters and farming headquarters on it, a couple of really nice buildings, a really nice residential home. A manager's home gonna go along with it here as well, right across the road. It'll be part of parcel number two. And and really, again, good productive uh native grasses, introduce grasses across the board. Uh the property stretches from just inside of Montana all the way to the Little Missouri River. Uh, Box Elder Creek winds its way through two of the parcels. Um, you've got Sheep's Creek that goes right through the property as well. There's a really, really nice setup for good water. And again, it's a 12-month operation, going to be offered in large parcels, Jim. This one's uh uh it's hard to break down these generational ranches. You know, the fences are set up, the water was set up and designed a certain way. Uh, they strategically put everything in a specific area. Parcel number one is 1,337 acres. Parcel number two is 2,465 acres, parcel three, 763 acres, parcel four, 1,717 acres, and then parcels five and six are each a half section of really uh productive cropland, again, right down there along the little Missouri River. What an opportunity it is. And it you don't have to be a next door neighbor to be interested in a property like this. It's large enough you can transport, it's large enough to utilize for year-round. Uh there's opportunity to maybe get a manager in place if you want to take the whole thing. Uh I I expect uh opportunity for for anybody coming from deep into Montana, Wyoming, Kansas for that matter, looking for a really nice operation, really nice ranch, and as complete as you can get, a generational ranch, been in the family forever, and uh it's just uh you know a chain of events that happens to get something like this to come to the market, but the next generation's uh is not there. And I tell you what, you've got a really, really good opportunity uh for the Cox family. This is the U Bar C Ranch, and it's at Pipers.com. You can get all the information at the website, Pipers.com, all six parcels photographed, ready to go. All the information is up. And if you guys want a more in-depth tour, just give us a call. Uh 701-523-736-7366. And uh Jim Savvy or Andy Murnock will uh be sure to take you around the property and and make sure that you can make a you know informed decision when it comes. And that's the big big part about buying at the auction sales. You want to be well informed ahead of time.
SPEAKER_00:Plan for a full day on that place by the time you get down there and and go through everything. And uh, so it's gonna take a full day. But folks, uh just go to Pipers.com and check this out. It's one of the um it's a very big ranch, um, but it's gonna be a lot of different people can bid on it because of the parcels you broke it up into. So it's gonna be nice that way.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and each parcel is self-sufficient on its own. Whether you're looking for just straight grass, you can uh bid on parcels three and four. If you're looking for a mix between cropland and grassland and uh in a 12-month operation, look at parcels one and two. Or if you're just looking for cropland, parcels five and six offer that. It's something for everybody, and I expect it to be a tremendous event. Jim, uh, day-to-day, you're probably the number one go-to guy when it comes to equipment with Pipers Auction Realty. We've got a lot of great sales coming up in November. Uh, the two particular sales, let's talk about the steel consignment auction coming up here this week. It comes up on Tuesday. The bidding is live as we speak right now. You can check out 100% of the inventory in detail at Pipers.com. Photographs and information is all updated and ready to go. We are gonna go we're gonna start bidding live. This will be another live auction sale on Tuesday.
SPEAKER_00:You know, and and we we like that steel area, it's a great asset to the community, but we get uh pretty good support out of there from people that uh want to sell equipment. And you know, I see we've got a lot of really nice vehicles on there, some nice semis that uh are are very nice. But you look at the equipment we've got some older trucks, and there's some stock trailers, and we got other trailers on there, but there's so much to look at there. So come on, and a lot of smaller stuff. What I really like is that skid steer attachments, everybody wants them, but they've been working very hard over there to get this sale set up. And I when I drove by there the other day, things were really looking good. They had it set up and then they had another two inches of rain in there, and uh they had to work the ground again in there, but they've done a great job. But folks, go to steel, drive through the lot, stop and talk to anybody that's there. Uh you know, Darren or Albert is there most of the time now with the sale coming up. And I'll be over there on uh, you know, probably Sunday, Monday and and helping them get everything ready for the sale. But that's that's always a fun one over there and a great community to be in.
SPEAKER_01:You bet. If you guys have any questions about any of the individual items, again, Jim said he'll be there all day Monday and uh the auction sales on Tuesday. Give us a call. We'll certainly uh walk you walk through the items for you if you need uh any advice on them. We'll get we'll give you the honest opinion on on what we feel that equipment is and and and how it's being represented. Uh, we've got uh Of good telehandlers on that sale, great skid steers. There's a tremendous lineup of uh ATVs and UTVs across the board here. Really, really nice Can Ams and uh and players rangers. So I tell you what, there's something for everybody at that sale. Uh, you don't have to be in the farm and ranch business to be at that one because there's something uh absolutely for everyone there.
SPEAKER_00:And if you're looking for storage or moving, uh yeah, I'm gonna say furniture or whatever you'd like to move, we got a lot of box trucks there. Um, really nice trucks with boxes and clothes boxes on them. Uh, don't be afraid to stop and take a look at them because they are very nice. Without a doubt.
SPEAKER_01:Now, the next week, you've got a sale over in Streeter, North Dakota. And this is for the Dualda State. Yeah, tell us a little bit about that. There are some really marky items on this set.
SPEAKER_00:There is, and and what's really nice about everything, uh um, it's a great access to it. We get down on the place, and all of a sudden you see this really nice fent tractor um that pops out at you. Then a John Deere track uh four-wheel drive. But it's been uh Justin's been a great guy to work with. This is uh S8 for his father. We've got nice semis and trailers, and then we've got a lot of hopper bins we're selling. But the combines, you know, you just finished up the beans, and uh I I looked at the hours, and you know, these combines they're they've got some hours on them, but they've always been kept up in good condition. It's got an air seeder that uh last spring they did a lot of work on, stuck ninety thousand dollars into this air seeder, and they seeded 3,500 acres with it this spring, and then they got this planner DB60 sitting there that uh you know everything gets worked on when it needs something done. These things get worked on. So we got a lot of great tillage equipment, it's a lot of other tractors that are on this sale. But you know, the call I'm getting most on is that Fent Andy, and and we've sold a couple of these before, and they are a great item. You bet.
SPEAKER_01:And I just want to touch on those a little bit. We've got a 2020 John Deere 9620 RX, your four your four-tracks John Deere tractor, 2626 hours on it. That tractor is loaded to the gills, full power shift on it, got the big motor in it, five hydraulics, high flow. It's set up, ready to go. That 2022 Fent that you're talking about is a 1050 Vario uh front wheel drive on it, uh CVT transmission, six hydraulics. What a heavy, heavy-duty tractor, Jim. I mean, you've got a really nice uh front wheel drive tractor. That one is 1,325 hours. I'm excited to watch that one go off the auction block. We've also got an older tractor, the 9270 case. We got an 8650 John Deere tractor as well, and a JX 1100 U. Uh, the DB60 Corn Planter is a 2012, and of course, we've got the nice air seater that's an 1890. Uh, it's a 60-footer with seven and a half inch spacing ready to go.
SPEAKER_00:You know, they all this equipment has been well taken care of, and you can see that by just looking at things. Um, but that fent is what I've been getting a lot of calls out of Kansas. Um, so folks, take a look at this, go to Pipers.com, and we're gonna have a great sale over there at Stir or Streeter, excuse me.
SPEAKER_01:You bet we're gonna be right back after this break. Uh word from our sponsors, and uh, we're gonna talk more about the final upcoming equipment auctions right after this. Oh my god. And we're back with America's Land Auctioneer segment number four in five, four, three, two. Welcome back to America's Land Auctioneer. I'm your host, Andy Murnock, side by side with Jim Sabby in studio here, Piffers Regional Office in Bowman, North Dakota. Uh, we were talking about the DeWald Estate auction that we've got coming up here. Uh not this, not this week, Jim, but the bidding starts live on Tuesday or starts online on Tuesday. The auction will be a live in-person auction in Streeter, North Dakota, right at the right at the farm site uh on the following Tuesday on November 18th. It's gonna be on November 18th, just outside of uh Streeter, North Dakota. Jim, we were talking about some tremendous tractors. We've got the 620 quad track or uh four four tracks John Deere. We've got the 1050 Vario Fent, that's a 2022 model. A lot of really nice tractors here, but you've got a payloader on that sale as well. I want to hit on it.
SPEAKER_00:We do. It's a 2010 John Deere 624K, and it is a high lift, guys, but it's it's been not used very little. Uh, it's got 5,050 hours on this payloader, and you can tell it it's got a scale on it. Um, it it's third valve, yeah. Third valve on there, uh, quick tatch. I mean, just something everybody's been looking for, uh, especially with that third valve. But with 5,000 hours on uh, that's not a lot of hours for when you see a payloader that's 15 years old.
SPEAKER_01:Well, we're running one of 15,000 hours on it, and it won't it doesn't skip a beat. So I imagine this one's got a lot of life left in it.
SPEAKER_00:It it is, but you know, we've got a lot of attachments after that from this payloader, a Dagleman icebreaker dozer that's got the hydraulic wings on it. Um, just a beautiful um snore snow pusher is what I really thought they used it for. But they did a lot of gravel around the yard when they're setting up their bin site. Uh you got i i think it looks good for uh a silage pile. It is, yeah, it does. Uh you got a you got a bale fork, uh, you got a pallet forks, but this bale fork's kind of a homemade, and uh it's really you can hold three bales on this thing. So that's what they use to move their bales around, and then it got a snow bucket, and then we jump into the semi. So we got a 2007 Kenworth, I believe it's 600 and some thousand miles on it. That uh is a 669,000 is a beautiful Kenworth C15 cat engine, 550 horsepower, um, 13 speed, a lot of things have been worked on on this thing, uh done right, rebuilt. Uh, they aren't afraid to do that. Then we got a couple older trucks, some older freight liners that uh they're gonna be selling with, and really they're good trucks, also. Um, just a little bit older, got some more mileage on them. And uh then they get the 2012 Wilson Hopper, uh, then we have a 2004 Hopper trailer, and then we have another one, a 1997 Hopper trailer. But uh one thing is really nice, they got a Transcraft step deck uh spread axle trailer. Yeah, he was using that for spraying and uh a lot of nice trailers there that have not been abused.
SPEAKER_01:No, a really nice sale coming up from a great family, ladies and gentlemen. Join us here on November 18th. That's gonna be outside of Streeter, North Dakota. All details, information, full details and information, photos and everything is updated and ready to go at Pipers.com. Uh that sale is gonna happen next week. Bidding goes live this Tuesday on November 11th, uh, right after the uh Steel auction that we're gonna have uh at Piffers Auction Center of North America, right there in Steele, North Dakota. Uh, Jim, following that sale, we've got a live online sale. This is uh the probably the fourth draft that we've been uh working on here with our live live concept for our online only's. Uh, we're no longer doing timed online only auctions for our consignment sales. These are gonna be live broadcasted sales right here out of uh uh our this one's gonna be broadcast right here out of our Bowman office or Bowman facility. And that sale has built into quite a quite a tremendous sale.
SPEAKER_00:It has. If you're looking for basically anything, but there's so much livestock equipment on this one from a great family up by Regent. Uh, they've also got great tractors from that area, but we have uh something for everybody on this one, but there is it's really turned out to be a huge sale. And what I like is we're doing that thing live, and we'll have our auctioneer sitting right here in Bowman. We get people that can come in and sit down and bid in our office right here and uh bid right as we're doing the auction. They don't have to be on the internet.
SPEAKER_01:Yep, or they can use any one of the three uh bidding platforms that we utilize for those sales, ladies and gentlemen. Something for everybody in this one, like they're talking about this one's being anchored by uh Bob and Angela Carlson, the classic Angus Ranch. Uh, they're in full retirement mode right now, just uh entering into their neck next stage, and we're glad to have them as part of this sale. We're gonna we're even gonna sell their auction block from their bull sale. Yeah, uh tremendous, uh tremendous operation here, well known across the upper Midwest and the entire region here. We're gonna sell two full semen tanks uh full of it full of semen as well. We're gonna get the list of uh of all the semen that's in that in that system uh up ready for you guys to uh take a look at and bid on the tanks there by itself. Uh when you really look across the board, you've got a 2018 featherlight trailer that looks like it's brand new. You've got a 2015 Dodge one-ton pickup with an aluminum bed on it that looks like it's brand new. Very well taken care of, very well maintained equipment. Like you said, an unbelievable amount of livestock equipment just as part of that portion of the auction sale. There's another 400 lots to follow up with. Uh, some of the highlights there, also from the Carlson family, is the 2021 Massey Ferguson. It's a 7720 Dyna 6 tractor, and that's a really, really nice tractor as well. We got three loader tractors with that between that one, the 2014 McCormick X7680 and a 2008 CaseIH 105U. Really nice little utility tractor there as well. Uh, we've also got the 9250 case tractor and a lot of good hay equipment, starting with the Vermeer uh Disc Bind More Moco. We've got an HS uh 14-wheel wheel rake, uh 2015 RB565 premium baler. That thing, I don't even know how many bales are on it yet.
SPEAKER_00:There's not a lot on that.
SPEAKER_01:I think it's right at 11,000 bales, so it's it's barely broken. 2019 Highline Bale Mover, and the list just continues to go on. We've got tillage equipment, we've got planting equipment, and everything under the sun uh is part of that sale as well. We've also got uh some really nice feed wagons as part of that auction sale, one for the Carlson family. We've got another one down here in Bowman, but it's a Cadillac 460. Uh the Great Plains Ultra Disc, all the way into some uh R Series John Deere tractors. Work your way right on down the line. Lots of good trucks and trailers and vehicles, you name it, it's here. There's also a really nice selection of exceptional tools.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, very nice tools. And and uh, you know, we've got some of that sitting here in our office. And man, you look through that, and I mean it they look like come off showroom floor, and so they've been very well taken care of from uh a night great family over there and heading there. But don't be afraid to look at this one, folks. I know it takes you a little while to get through there, but there's a lot of stuff on this sale, and and it's it's gonna be a great day when we have that sale. But there's so many items, and we have three different platforms now you can bid on. So don't be afraid to get a hold of any one of us here in Bowman, John Sorride, Jim Sabby, or Andy Murnoch. Um, just call the Bowman office and we'd be glad to help you out with with anything that we have on there. And if it's not ours, we'll get you to the right guy that that is uh put that up on our site.
SPEAKER_01:You bet. Now that sale's gonna uh take off on December 8th. Uh there is a week uh weeks long of uh online bidding, but it's gonna be a live broadcast on December 8th. Again, that's gonna be broadcast right here out of our Bowman Regional Office, and uh it'll be a live sale. You can follow along with the auctioneers anywhere, uh, but check out everything at Pipers.com where you can bid online as well. We want to back up to December 4th. It's where our Southern Dakota winter 2025 equipment auction is, and a lot of really nice equipment gonna happen down at our uh Worthing facility just south of Sioux Falls, right on I-29. Uh, really some of the nicer items there. We got a 2019 Mustang 1350 Skid Steer. We got a 2021 John Deere 324L. I love them 324s. If you want to talk about just a versatile uh utility uh wheel loader, uh bigger than a mini, right? Not quite as big as the you know as the cumbersome ones that are hard to hard to maintain and manage, but if you just got a modest operation, those 324s are tremendous, tremendous units. Uh, a couple of Volvo wheel loaders, got an L60 and an L90 and L110. That gets uh more into a bigger aggregate uh style. We got some scrapers, a lot of good construction equipment, but there's some really nice front wheel assist John Deere tractors. We got a 6R175, got an 8430, that's a 2007 model with 7,800 hours. We've got a 2007-8430 with 11,000 hours, but I tell you what, that's one of the best uh models that Johnny ever came out with. A lot of life left in those machines. So really, really good sale. Again, you can check out all of our updated inventory at Pifers.com. This is the Sioux Falls Worthing uh say uh office that's going to be hosting our 2025 winter auction for South Dakota. Uh, we've also got a 2005 K CIH MX 285 tractor. Jim, I can't find a nicer one in the country. That tractor right there with only$5,200 should turn some heads.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it should. And and uh, you know, again, they got a great sale lineup down there. Call those guys down in Worthing. Uh they'd be glad to help you out. You know, we're gonna run a couple rings again that day, but you know, everything's set up nice. Uh it's set up for everybody. Take a look at this. There's a lot of nice equipment.
SPEAKER_01:Self-propelled sprayers. This they've got a selection of self-propelled sprayers down there with a 2023-616R, uh 662 spray hours on that on that uh machine by itself. There's a 2010-4830, 2014-4940. And I tell you what, just if they just got something for everybody down there. It's gonna be two rings, it's gonna be all day. Uh join us online at Pipers.com or join us in our uh temperature-controlled facility down there. But for Jim Savvy and Andy Murdoch, that's gonna be it for us here today in this Saturday morning. Appreciate y'all for listening to America's Land Auctioneer. When it comes to buying or selling farmland, ranches, or equipment, experience matters. Contact Piper's Auction Realty and Land Management. Nobody does it better. Give Jim Savvy Andy Murnock a call at 701-523-7366 today.