Upcoming Auction 196.5 Acres Marion County Iowa

Located in Knoxville, Iowa

Description

Phyllis Witte after careful consideration and having moved away has decided to offer her farm to the public at auction.  This 196.5 acres comprised of 170.3 cropland acres will be offered at the Swamp Fox Pub and Grille in Knoxville Iowa on March 3rd at 1:00pm.  This farm will be sold with 2012 possession so you will get to farm it immediately.  The farm located in central Iowa is a good high quality productive farm with several good condition outbuildings located between Knoxville and Pleasantville.  There is a small stream and a small amount of pasture on the farm as well as 4.3 acres of CRP (CP8A) with an annual payment of $500 expiring in 2013.

Documents and Support Material

Marion 200.pdf
Farmland Doc Marion Soil Map.pdf

Additional Details

Listing #: 1

Property Type: Farmland

Location Details: Located NE in Knoxville in Union Township section 21

Notes: The farm will be sold with 2012 possession

Total Acres: 196.5

Cropland: 170.3

CRP Acres: 4.3

Corn Base: 131.5

Bean Base: 24.7

Wheat Base: 0

Weighted Average CSR: 56.3 by NRCS

Auction Date: March 3, 2012

Auction Time: 1:00 pm

Auction Location: Swamp Fox Pub and Grille 116 N. 2nd Street, Knoxville, IA 50138

Agent/Auctioneer Name: Jason Smith

Contact Number: 712-592-8965

Brokerage : Ed Spencer Real Estate and Auction Company

Address: 322 E. 7th Ave Logan Iowa 51546

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Upcoming Auction 191 Acres Decatur and Wayne County Iowa 80 CSR

Located in Lineville, Iowa

Description

This 191 acres is located on the border of Wayne and Decatur Counties in Iowa, a rare find with a very high CSR.  Very productive soils including over 100 acres of Lawson-Nodaway complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes at 89 CSR and another 35 acres of Colo silty clay loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes at 80 CSR making up the bulk of this farm.  This highly productive Iowa farm will be offered at public auction on February 25th and the buyer will be given full possession for the 2012 crop season at closing.  Acreage figures have been estimated from aerials by the Farm Service Agency and are best information and are as accurate as can be calculated at this time, actual acres will be determined by final survey.

Documents and Support Material

Farmland Doc Wayne County Soil Map.pdf
Farmland Doc McCann Family Farms.pdf
McCann Family Farms Sale Bill.pdf

Additional Details

Listing #: 2

Property Type: Farmland

Location Details: Located along Caleb Creek

Notes: Notes

Total Acres: 191 m/l

Cropland: 173.24 determined by FSA

CRP Acres: 0

Corn Base: 48.6

Bean Base: 5.0

Wheat Base: 1.0

Weighted Average CSR: 77.5

Auction Date: February 25, 2012

Auction Time: 10:30am

Auction Location: City Hall 111 Main Street Lineville Iowa

Agent/Auctioneer Name: Jason Smith

Contact Number: 712-592-8965

Brokerage : Ed Spencer Real Estate and Auction Company

Address: 322 E. 7th Avenue Logan Iowa 51546

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In this case I had scouted out a new trail camera location earlier in 2011 and decided to post one of my new Bushnell video capable trail cameras on the location.  It was a place I felt was a likely travel route for mature bucks cutting between two ridges and it turns out I was right.  Through the year this location has yielded photos of all of my biggest deer on this farm as well as a few surprises that I wasn’t expecting.  On January 3rd I had a series of 8 videos showing 3 giant whitetails travelling together not long after the shotgun season had ended.  I’m fairly certain I have a photo or two of the first one a year ago about the exact same time, there are those deer that you get one shot of a year and here is one of mine!

For me shed hunting may be funner than hunting just for those reasons.  I love deer hunting but I also love growing things and one of those things is antlers.  I mentioned above our antler obsession and I don’t call it that in shame.  No doubt that obsession has caused some to commit horrible acts but for the 98% that are good honest people that obsession has done more to better our sport than hurt it.  Today as people treat deer hunting as more of a lifestyle than a hobby and manage farms for the deer hunting experience we’ve seen the bar raised on what people are willing to take.  I think some people like myself have become more obsessed with growing super bucks than taking them.  It gives us the ability to watch them year to year and see what natural means produce the best results.  Where I live I frequently hear 150 as a minimum and that’s a great standard if you are a bone measuring addict.  I tend to think more in terms of maturity but the two go hand in hand, as a buck matures its antlers grow larger.  Regardless we are on the right path toward improving deer hunting for everybody.

As Spring approaches and antlers begin to fall I wanted to share with you a bit about my strategy to get the antlers that you’ve watched grow all year.  I don’t want to write another same old boring “shed hunting tips” so having sold hunting land for, with and to some of the best whitetail hunters in the Midwest I’ve been blessed with a collection of knowledge from the best and most successful shed hunters there are.  Its always amazed me to be invited into “the secret room” that hides 20-25 year shed collections that have rarely been seen by others.  You’d be surprised at the number of collections out there and the people that have 6-7-8 deer generations of sheds dating well back into the 70′s and earlier.  What do those guys have in common that has helped them collect thousands and thousands of sheds over the years?  Here is what I’ve gleaned from their knowledge.

#1 Food- High quality food sources almost always turn up the first sheds and the most sheds every year. It seems that clover and alfalfa are top choices for the best shed hunters, corn, soybeans and grains follow but don’t overlook a winter water source.  I’ve found some of the most successful shed hunters know where there is a secret water hole that stays open year round, sometimes no bigger than a hole big enough to get a whiletail nose in and its yielded them hundreds of sheds walking the trails to it every year.

#2 Bedding- High quality bedding areas are a close second to food sources.  By high quality I mean that bedding should be thick, undisturbed and close to food.  Some people do not understand what thick cover is until they have actually been in it.  If you have ever been in whitetail cover that you look and and say “there is no way I can walk through that” then you have seen thick cover.  I’ve heard people say “thats really thick in there” yet you could walk straight across it.  Thicker cover is usually a result of forest manipulation that has allowed sunlight to the forest flood and created a tangled jungle of whitetail bedding.  It is fallen trees, hinge cut trees, vines, thorn bushes, sapplings, cedars and whatever else will grow.  A good stand of switchgrass also offers great cover and seems to be an indicator of someones success as a shed hunter.  I’ve noticed that not only do these guys have switch grass on their farms, but they also find every available spot they can with switch grass and get permission to shed hunt it.

#3 Trails between bedding and food sources can be the most difficult to nail down because in reality it can be any trail.  A huge shed can take up less than 1 sq foot of space and a winter buck can take up home anywhere he feels safe.  There are 43,560 square feet in an acre and 6,969,600 square foot on a 160 acre farm.  There could be a shed on any one of those sq foot so most people key in on hot spots only, but the most successful shed hunters know the prize is not easily found and getting off the most heavily traveled paths will yield the biggest sheds.

#4 Timing is important in terms of pressure.  Winter whitetails especially big bucks are recovering from rut and they are just laying up getting some rest.  If you go in an bump them early they could relocate to a neighbors, go to late and you’ll sit fearing someone is stealing your sheds before you can get to them.  The most successful guys seem to have an ability to nail down timing and kick their restlessness by hunting neighboring properties with permission or outlying properties with permission before hitting their own.  If you have non-hunting neighbors its a no brainer if they will give you permission to shed hunt to hit them first and early to put some pressure on them and move deer to your own property where hopefully you have good food sources and bedding where they might take up refuge at least until they do shed.

Need to boost the food on your property to try to attract a few deer in?  Its a great time to do some tree cutting, the crops are out, the ground is froze and the sap is out of the trees and those trees are a great whitetail food source.  Its a great time to drop a few Mulberry trees for the deer to much on and add some food.  I’ll usually scatter a few bales of alfalfa in food plots as well where there is no much food left or fill a spreader with corn and spread it in the food plot.  Many people are tempted to just dump out a file of corn which I’ve done many times but one shed hunter told me that when you have little or no snow you can use a spreader and just fling the corn all over, the deer have to work harder to get it, it lasts longer and keeps them on the property longer than giving them a buffet style meal.

I didn’t even mention it above but the best advice and #1 quality I have seen in the best shed hunters is patience and hard work.  The ability to keep focused, not get off track and going at it day and and day out.  Shed hunting can last 4 months for some of these guys.  Between their ATV, snowmobile, horses and feet they cover hundreds of miles.  Good luck out there this year, bring a pile of em home!

The headline was a little misleading once you read the article, I suppose you could argue the headline is accurate if you wanted to split hairs over words but in reality Iowa Represenative Dan Mulhlbauer said he felt the market would pull back… a whole lot different than what I consider the word burst to me. 

I can remember when my wife was expecting our first child, I had insisted before any tests were done our child was a boy.  I told them before the ultrasound, I knew it was a boy.  We made our way to the first ultrasound and got to the point where they would determine boy or girl, as I watched the screen it appeared I was right and then the medical practioner administering the test confirmed “yep its a boy”  Estatic that I had been right the whole time I proudly sat up and proclaimed my superior intuition that I had known the whole time as if I’d had some magic power or special ability.  The gal with the bottle of cold gel and prod didn’t miss a beat as she said in a monotone voice “and you had a 50-50 chance of being right, congrats on not choosing the wrong one” 

My ultrasound story reminds me of the “farmland bubble” question.  I don’t know that there is anyway for anybody to know what the future holds.  If they did, they’d capitalize on it right now.  They’d be able to tell me what corn will sell for 2 years from now and nobody has that ability, just like I did not have the ability to know what sex my new child would be until it actually happened and there was confirmation.  Nobody knows today what will happen, we have a very very strong ag sector right now and alot of indication it will remain strong for some time, but common sense keeps telling us this pace can’t keep up.  The truth is you can choose burst or no burst right now and you have a 50-50 chance of being right.  Depending on which side of the ball you are on determines your path forward. 

Are you considering selling a productive farm in Iowa?  I think the article said it best when it said “Muhlbauer said some heirs of longtime local farmland see this as a prime time to sell.”  There is a great deal of wisdom in that statement, we are set to at the very least level off, potentially pull back and some say “burst”  Can you take the risk of waiting until prices start to drop before you decide to go, at that point it could take 60 days to prepare a farmland auction while things continue to slip and the mood has eroded, by then its to late and you might as well sell at the bottom because the ride down will be very fast.

As DreamDirt grows we are looking for quality people to add to our creative team!  We are currently interviewing potential “Farmographers” who may be interested in joining our team in all corners of the state of Iowa.  What is a “Farmographer”  Well, that takes a little explaining!

A DreamDirt Farmographer is a talented, creative, driven, self motivated person with some camera experience, camera equipment including motion and still units, maybe even a jib, tripod, dolly, who knows they may even be good with Photoshop or Final Cut Pro.  We all have different skill sets but you know the kind right?

A Farmographer would have a deep respect for farmlife, ranching, livestock, wildlife, farmers, hunters and the land and would be right at home in the middle of a hot corn field in early August or a cattle lot in mid January.  The most qualified Farmographer would have a deep interest in helping other learn and understand life on the farm and a desire to display the pride of Iowa farmers in producing the worlds food supply.

Some of the things you would do for us is documenting farm properties that will be coming up for auction or private treaty listing in infinite high definition detail and assisting with creating content for our upcoming DreamDirt TV launch in 2012.  Compensation is on a per property or per piece basis and could potentially lead to future positions within the company which will be announced at a later time.

Do you think you have what it takes to join us a freelance member of the DreamDirt team?  We want to hear from you and hear about your experience, your skills and your goals.   Drop me a line in my email or use the contact box to the right and let us know why you would be a good fit and how we can help you grow and attain your goals.

A. Have a need to be met… for example they have a child going to college, need to pay bills, need to buy a new vehicle or anything along those lines.

B. They have a barn that has salable items, or they have salable items and a barn.  Those salable items could be just about anything, old tractors, old machinery, household goods, crates, buckets, lanterns, pieces and parts, scrap metal…. there literally is no limit.

C. They would be agreeable to selling their items at auction.

D. They would would appear on TV and tell their story and allow their auction to be filmed for TV.

I know there are many barns around the countryside that still to this day house the relics of the past and their perfect subject would be a family that owns a bulging barn of antiques that could be dusted off and sold at auction.   Theu believe the excitement of discovering and uncovering those old items, appraising them and selling them at auction would make for exciting TV and I can’t disagree.  The increase and success in auction related TV shows recently shows how interested the public is in the auction method of marketing.  Please share this page with anybody you may know that fits the bill above, or comes close.  I’d love the opportunity to talk to them.  I can be contacted on my cell phone at 712-592-8965 or by email at Jason@dreamdirt.com

NOTE: If you just thought “well I have all that but the stuff in my barn is junk” dial me, as they say, “one mans junk is another man’s treasure”  Also feel free to use the buttons below to share this post on your Facebook, Twitter or even the email icon to email it to friends and family that may be able to help us!  As always we appreciate all your help.