The 42,000+ acre Buckhorn ranch was established in 1929 and has been in the family ever since. The headquarters include an approximately 3500 square foot home, shop, hay barn, saddle house, stalls, corrals, roping arena and round pen.
To learn more, contact realtor Tom Sidwell at 575-403-6903 or visit the listing.
Buckhorn Ranch is located less than an hour away from the town of Truth or Consequences and Elephant Butte Lake; New Mexico's largest reservoir. Elephant Butte Lake offers fishing, boating, water skiing etc.
The home has 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, an open living/dining room, mudroom, office, and laundry room. The kitchen has modern stainless appliances and a working wood cook stove.
The Buckhorn ranch has been managed intensively under the concepts of Holistic Management/Regenerative grazing since 1990. There are a total of 44 pastures plus the large Malpais pasture. The ranch is recipient of numerous Stewardship Awards. The ranch is 42,147+/- acres in size and consists of 1,120+/- deeded acres, 5,094+/- acres leased from New Mexico State Land Office, 33,633+/- acres leased from the Bureau of Land Management, and 2,300+/- acres of uncontrolled (free use) land.
Grazing Capacity
The Buckhorn ranch is rated by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) at 504 animal units (1 AU = 1cow and calf) year round or 5,020 animal unit months. The current grazing fee is $1.35 per animal unit month. The BLM grazing fee is paid “after the fact”; the fee is paid based upon the actual number of livestock that were grazed on the ranch instead of being paid at the beginning of the grazing year based on estimated numbers.
Improvements - Range
The Buckhorn ranch has an extensive fencing and water system. The interior fences are two wire electric; a hot and a ground wire, very effective in confining livestock for rotation while allowing wildife to cross without tearing up the fences. All boundary fences are barbed wire and in good condition.
The water system consists of 30 miles of pipeline connected to six wells, 13 livestock drinkers, 200,000 gallons of storage. There are 3 solar and 1 electric booster pumps that will move the water to where the cattle rotate through 44 pastures. The water system provides more than adequate water for one herd of livestock. In addition, there are five wells currently not utilized in the pipeline system that can be tied into the pipeline for additional water
Wildlife
Because the ranch lies between White Sands Missile Range and the Pedro Armendaris Land Grant, and because of the availability of water on the ranch, big game species such as oryx, mule deer, and antelope are attracted to and migrate onto the ranch.
Price
$3,500,000 - This equates to an investment of $6,945 per animal unit as compared to $10-20,000 per animal unit for an all deeded ranch.
To learn more, contact realtor Tom Sidwell at 575-403-6903 or visit the listing.