Backyard Aquaponics
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Right now I wish I hadn't just finished building our dream home, because this is one heck of a deal...

http://www.landandfarm.com/lf/s%5C63%5C67407.asp

Irrigated : Yes

Residence : Yes

Total Area : 114.20 acres

Cropland Area : contact seller

Asking Price : $150,000 (convert)

Price Per Acre : $1,313

Pecos River AquaCulture Desert Shrimp Farm, Pecos County. Can be used as a Fish or SHRIMP FARM on with the land touching the Pecos River. The shrimp farm is not in operation at this time. One of the 16 ponds has bass. There are four greenhouse type buildings designed to be used as nurseries. They are 154 X 35 feet each. The buildings are designed for tank runs. There is a metal storage building 40 X 60 feet with barn doors. There is an office and walk in cold storage. Total pasture land and shrimp farm is approximately 114.2 acres. There is pad for a moble home and municipal drinking water tap. There are 5 irrigtion wells integrated in a closed-loop underground water system for ponds. The 16 ponds have a total of 32 acre feet under water. Eight (8) ponds are 2.5 acre feet and the remaining 8 ponds vary in size from 1 acre to near 2 acres. Call Betty Hickman, $150,000.00 432-290-1931, 432-336-9978, or at bsadler9@yahoo.com C-21 Sadler and Asso LLC.

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I just thought I'd post it in case ANYONE is looking, this is a great deal.

wow !!! $150,000 wont even buy a home here. my 1 acre homestead would go for $300,000. i wonder if there is a catch?

bloody hell! There is a crappy little 4 bedroom house up the street from me going for $565K, and you don't get any farm equipment $176K!

Yeah, we paid about $100k for our 5 acres of raw land two years ago. That's why I thought I'd share it here. Who knows, maybe there's someone on here who will be able to take advantage of this deal.

I couldn't buy one acre of unimproved grass for less than $200K here

land is about $100,000 an acre here, land you can actually build something on cost even more. over 87% of the state of nevada is owned by the federal government, there is not much private property here to buy even if you have the money.

wonder why his shrimp business failed? Imperial is in west Texas desert / oil country - having lots of water is a real commodity there. I would definately look into water quality before buying.

maybe bubbagump shrimp had sumthin to do wid it?

No idea what happened with the farm, just thought I'd share the listing. Even my wife said if we had found it two years ago, we would have left California. But it would definitely need serious investigation by anyone interested in it. It could be bad water or it could have been bad business.

or it could be haunted.

If so, you just need to make nice with the ghosts.

Really there could be a ton of reasons why it's cheap.

It's a very long way from anywhere, that's part of why it's cheap. In that part of TX, 114 acres is like a back yard. Not exactly huge. Some of his neighbors can add one or two 0's to the acreage.

Years ago, I was out there and they were explaining to me that they used to all be big cattle ranches, then New Mexico stole the water and there was no more grass. Then they all found oil and all was well until we got smart and started to buy ours overseas. Then they say, we started farming shrimp.

I think that was before China started to ship them over here so cheap. It is amasing how they can produce over there, ship all the way over here and still be so seriously cheap.

It is in a very remote location in the southwest, far from natural ground water (the Pecos River is not really a river, but rather a wash when torrent thunderstorms srping up and dump 2 inches in one hour) and farther still from a large market. NAFTA has hit alot of farming industry hard and continues to do so. I most suspect these factors are the reason for the business going belly up.

It is too far from anywhere to run a profitable AP opertion IMO, and it may even have groundwater contamination from cattle grazing for hundreds of years.

Wow, that's still pretty cheap, even for west texas. I wonder what the avg. rainfall is there. Even if its just 9-10 inches/ year, you can catch a lot of water on 114 acres. With the right design you could have a tropical oasis. Check out a you tube clip called greening the desert for an example in Jordan. Pretty amazing stuff.