320 Acres with Irrigated, Hunting Game, Water Well, Electricity, Development Potential in Socorro County, Veguita, New Mexico

This is an exceptionally large, irrigated farm just South of Albuquerque. Better yet, these 320 acres are leased for $80,000 a year - the tenant being a 4000-cow-dairy located five miles away. The fields are planted in Sorghum Sudangrass which the dairy uses for silage. Water is delivered via the MRGCD. There is a domestic well and an old irrigation well on the property. Mineral rights are intact, and the seller thinks there are usable gravel deposits too. Made up of 14 adjoining tax parcels, further subdivision for housing development might also be the future here. Farms like this are getting absorbed as Albuquerque and Los Lunas continue to grow. Location; location; location; we are talking 50 miles south of Albuquerque via Interstate 25, less than an hour from the Albuquerque International Sunport (airport). Moreover; friendly, growing Los Lunas lies between the farm and Albuquerque! To name a few employers, Los Lunas is home to a Facebook Data Center Campus, a Walmart Distribution Center, and a University Workforce Training Center. Then, a little further south, you find the charming town of Socorro with its respected college, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, and its 18-hole public golf course. Las Nutrias is a pretty little community surrounded by distant, gentle mountains. It’s southern edge just touches this farm. The village’s original name was La Vega de Las Nutrias meaning Meadow of the Beavers. Along the road one sees a striking historic church built in 1860 – Las Nutrias San Ysidro Catholic Mission. One notable farming neighbor south of the farm is the New Mexico Boys Ranch. Wildlife is abundant in the Rio Grande Valley and Socorro County features two world-renowned wildlife refuges (close to the subject farm) – Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge and Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. Even closer - the farm is just across the river from New Mexico’s Bernardo Wildlife Management Area. Las Nutrias Farm comes with hunting opportunities too. Lying in New Mexico Game Unit 14, the farm is home to dove, quail, pheasant, and turkey. Waterfowl use the irrigation ditches and flyway heavily, including ducks, geese, snow geese, and magnificent sandhill cranes. There is also an annual depredation elk hunt in the Rio Grande Bosque and the farm has been awarded tags. Las Nutrias Farm is co-listed with Robert Martin of Fay Ranches.

Irrigated, Hunting Game, Water Well, Electricity, Development Potential, Minerals

Acreage, Hunting Property, Farm

Veguita, 87062 New Mexico

County: Socorro