Auction: Tract 7 – Moyer Family – 150 +/- Acres – Lyon County, KS
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 auction will be held on January 14th, 2026 at 6:30pm at Champions Landing in Emporia, KS (1801 Rural Street).
Tract 7 is the combination of Tract 5 and Tract 6 and totals 150 +/- acres in size, featuring an attractive, well-designed backgrounding lot, along with clean native grass meadow with four ponds. The property lays level to gently rolling for the area and has gravel road access along its southern, northern and western borders. If you are looking for a great affordable location to start and feed cattle, are looking for clean native grasses for hay or livestock production, are looking for additional tillable acreage, or are looking for a location to build in the country near pavement and utilities this parcel shouldn’t be overlooked.
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 additionally includes four ponds for those looking to graze the property as well. For those looking for tillable acreage, potential exists on the meadow land on the property for future crop production as land along the entire eastern side of the property, and across the roads to the west and south, is currently in crop production.
While this parcel is an attractive affordable size agricultural unit, it additionally features strong rural-residential appeal and would make a wonderful location to build your dream home in the country. The property is located within 1-mile of pavement and within an easy 10-minute drive of Emporia. Additionally, rural water and electrical service are both located along the roads on the southern and western sides of the property offering a cost-effective location to build. Please contact Lyon County RWD #5 at 620-583-0173 with questions
This parcel is a highly attractive unit and offers good utility to multiple buyer types. If you would like to take a look, or have questions, please contact Henry Ott at 620-437-7340. Thank you!
Brief Legal Description: A tract containing 150+/- acres in the West 1/2 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 and the property will start just both north and east of the intersection.
Earnest Money: $45,000.00 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.
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.