Tract 5 - Moyer Family

Property Description

On behalf of the late Jaret Moyer family, Vaughn-Roth Land Brokers proudly presents 678-acres of premium Lyon County land to the public via Hybrid Auction (both in person and online). Located north of Emporia, this land will be offered in multiple parcels and will be attractive to multiple Buyer classes including ag producers, investors, hunters, and those looking for a beautiful home in the country or a location to build. Land is all located within a 2-mile radius and will sell in 8 tracts featuring individual parcels and combinations thereof. Tract 1 totals 160 +/- acres and is a beautiful Headquarter unit with a nice 5 bed, 3.5 bath home, multiple nice outbuildings including a large heated shop, fancy state of the art cattle processing facility, commodity shed, hay shed, extremely well designed and built cattle backgrounding lot with 800hd (700lb or less) capacity, and five additional grass traps each having 100’ of adjoining concrete bunks with pens. Tract 2 totals 160+/- acres with paved road access, high quality native grass pasture/meadow with productive class II and III soils, and adjoining utilities. Tract 3 is the combination of tracts 1 and 2 and totals 320 +/- acres. Tract 4 totals 80 +/- acres and features productive tillable type soils, heavy timber and creek with excellent deer and turkey hunting, pens/concrete bunks, and adjoining utilities. Tract 5 totals 96 +/- acres and features a nice large pinwheel shaped cattle backgrounding lot with 1350’ of concrete bunk, pipe and guardrail pens, a nice loadout, and native grass meadow. Tract 6 totals 54 +/- acres and features native grass meadow along with adjoining utilities for those looking to build on an affordable sized acreage in the country. Tract 7 is the combination of tracts 5 and 6 and totals 150 +/- acres. Tract 8 totals 128 +/- acres with cattle feeding pens and loadout, both native and cool season grasses, and ½-mile of creek with good deer and turkey hunting. The online bidding will open at Noon on 1/12/2026.  The live auction will be held on January 14^th, 2026 at 6:30pm at Champions Landing in Emporia, KS (1801 Rural Street).

Tract 5 totals 96 +/- acres in size and features an attractive, well-designed backgrounding lot, along with clean native grass meadow with two ponds. The property lays level to gently rolling for the area and has gravel road access along both its northern and western borders. If you are looking for a great affordable location to start and feed cattle, this is it!

The backgrounding lot on the property has had extensive improvements completed in recent years and features roughly 1350’ of concrete bunk, a highly efficient pinwheel design making it easy for one individual to pull cattle, numerous guardrail and pipe improvements, a new set of loadout/sorting pens with semi loadout, and heated automatic waters. The design of the lot is very unique and efficient with cattle all flowing to the center of the lot towards the processing facility with heated and cooled office and tub and alley with Silencer chute. The main pinwheel lot includes 11 pens, each with its own automatic waterer and concrete bunk line. The loadout facility includes two large sorting pens and an alley leading to the semi loadout. Overall, this is a highly unique backgrounding lot that is set up extremely well with cattle flowing easily through the facility.

Additional acreage on the property is composed of clean native grasses utilized currently for hay production. Grass appears to be well cared for and is in good condition. The property includes two additional ponds for those looking to graze the property as well. For those looking for tillable acreage potential exists on the meadow land around the backgrounding lot as land to the west, south, and east of this property is currently utilized for row-crop production.

If you have been looking for a great facility for starting and feeding cattle, this is it! If you would like to take a look, or have questions, please contact Henry Ott at 620-437-7340. Thank you!

Auction Method: The bid amounts of Tract 5 and Tract 6 will be totaled and an additional $30,000.00 will be added to that total which will be the starting bid price of Tract 7.

Brief Legal Description: A tract containing 96 +/- acres in the Northwest 1/4 of Section 24, Township 17 South, Range 11 East of the 6th P.M., Lyon County, Kansas.

Driving Directions from Emporia: Head north on 99 Hwy for 4.5 miles to the intersection of Rd 240 & Rd L. Proceed north on Rd L for 3 miles to the intersection of Rd 270 & Rd L. Proceed east on Rd 270 for 1 mile to the intersection of Rd 270 and Rd M. Head north on Rd M for 0.5 miles and the property will start on the east side of the road.

Earnest Money: $30,000.00 due on day of sale.

Closing & Possession:  Possession shall be at closing, on or before 2/18/2026.

Minerals: The Seller's mineral interests shall transfer to the Buyer.

DISCLAIMER: Please find the following language related to Tracts 5 and 7 from Casey Guccione - Section Chief, Livestock Waste Management, Kansas Department of Health and Environment. If you have further questions related to this matter, please contact Casey directly by calling him at 785-380-6265.

Facility Description

The existing facility consists of a circular set of pens that are surrounded by a feed road. The pens are at the high point of the area and all waste and runoff flows down towards the feed road. This area covers approximately 4 acres. The area outside the pens, road and basin is grassland that is currently cut for hay.

Runoff from pens drains to a sediment basin that collects runoff outside the road. The sediment basin has been recently cleaned out and had solids removed.  The runoff that is collected in the sediment basin drains to the east side to a retention control structure.

The Retention Control Structure (RCS) is approximately 2.5 acres with an unknown depth and holding capacity. According to Mrs. Moyer, the RCS has not had any liquid stored in it which suggests that process wastewater is either minimal or not reaching the RCS. The current owners did not design or build this facility and do not have any documentation of engineering design or liner certification on the existing structure.

Permitting requirements and options

KDHE requires all facilities with over 300 animal units to register. Facilities that are deemed to be a significant pollution potential are required to receive a permit. Facilities that have permanent control structures used for storing waste are required to have a permit. The facility has the capacity to hold over 300 animal units. The new owner will need to submit a registration(attached) to KDHE with the accompanying $25 fee.

The new owner will have options on how they will want to proceed with how they wish to operate the facility. If they wish to operate it as it is currently configured, a permit will be needed. The permit application is attached as well. The primary concern with permitting will be the existing RCS. Several trees currently exist in the RCS and will need to be removed. The depth and volume will need to be determined, as well as appropriate operating limits to contain a 25 year, 24-hour rain event. Because there is no documentation of seepage testing, the pond will need to be tested to verify it meets KDHE’s required seepage rate. The facility is not in a designated sensitive groundwater area so the seepage would need to be less than ¼ inch per day. This testing can be done by soil core testing of liner or whole pond test. I would recommend the new owner contact an engineer or hire a consultant to assist in this process if they choose to go this direction.

Alternately, the facility could utilize the surrounding grassland as a buffer. This would require grading over the sediment basin and removal of the existing RCS. The slopes off the existing pens are directed to concrete channels every other pen. Ideally, the waste would have more widely dispersed runoff from the pens so that sediments could be filtered in grass. Grass buffers need at least 1:1 ratio of pen space to buffer. This area would need to be separated from any grazing animals but could still be used for hay for livestock. We encourage all delineated grass buffer areas be cut for hay to remove nutrients and allow for more to be taken up from vegetation.

Both of these options will require work from the new owner. If they should have any questions, please direct them to myself or others at our office so that we can provide whatever answers we can. In this instance, the new owner will have a choice on how they wish to proceed. KDHE offers no preference of the two options but would need to be made aware when the registration is submitted. If you have need for further clarification, please feel free to reach out to Casey Guccione at 785-380-6265.

Disclosure: Yellow boundary property lines in the pictures are approximated for reference only. Please refer to the aerial map provided by the Lyon County Appraiser's office in reference to property lines.