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        <description>Current real estate market information for Ulysses, Kansas and the surrounding southwest, Kansas area. Information about homes, land, minerals and commercial property in Ulysses, Hugoton, Johnson, Elkhart, and Rolla, Kansas including the Kansas count</description>
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            <author>cbfaulkner@hotmail.com (Super Admin)</author>
            <title>Southwest Kansas Irrigators Gather - Improve Efficiency</title>
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Tuesday January 17, 2012.


Teeter Irrigation hosted their annual customer appreciation breakfast at their headquarters in Ulyssses, Kansas this morining. My father, Mark Faulkner, and I stopped by at around 8:00 for breakfast and listened to their Senniger Irrigation rep discuss nozzles and pressure regulators. The discussion continued with Owner Monty Teeter talking about how small pressure differences in at your nozzle can make big differences in the efficiency of your system and lead to overpumping. I had a short discussion with Kenneth Teeter, Monty's brother, about what they've seen in the fields this past year. Kenneth stated that farmers in southwest Kansas have been pushing their systems harder through the drought to save crops and take advantage of great grain prices. This increase has lead to more pumping of air and about 25-30% more line blowouts from trapped air. Monty Teeter introduced a new product to help eliminate line damage due to air. A new air relief valve is being offered that will only accuate when it is filled with water. It will also continue to burp out any excess air as the system is opperating. This simple new device sounds like it will offer great "relief" to irrigators in the southwest Kansas and surrounding states under increased pressure to maximize their irrigation systems. In addition Teeters introduced some other great new products like larger 8-ply tires, flow meters without any mechanical "guts" and DIY pressure regulator testing systems. They've also realeased a great parts special sheet with incredible deals on various parts through February 15th of 2012. Contact Teeter irrigation for sale details at 620-353-1111.


Teeter Irrigation will also be offering an Advanced Sprinkler Service School on February 1, 2012 from 7:30am to 12:00pm and again from 1:00pm to 5:30pm. This school is offered to anyone, but is limited to the first 160 participants. Topics discussed include; Pivot Drive Train, Valley Troubleshooting, CAMS/Select Panel Programming and Zimmatic/other Troubleshooting. This class looks to be critical for any farmer specializing in irrigated farming and will definitely help you spend less time down and more time producing great crops.


I spend about 80% of my time behind this desk at Faulkner Real Estate marketing our land and homes and managing our offices. It is a great treat to get out of the office, learn something new about our agricultural industry and see some of our customers. This morning was fun and I feel that the Team at Teeter Irrigation deserves this recognition for making the effort to gather local farmers, offer them a hot breakfast and help educate them and increase their bottom lines. Teeter Irrigation is celebrating 35 years of serving the Kansas, Colorado and Oklahoma. Our hats are off to them and their staff. We're thrilled to be their Realtors of choice and to help them purchase their new headquarters here in Ulysses, Kansas.
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            <author>cbfaulkner@hotmail.com (Chris Faulkner)</author>
            <title>Land Sold Well in 2009 and Continues to Sell in 2010!</title>
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Western Kansas and Easter Colorado Land Sales Strong in 2010.&nbsp;

Faulkner Real Estate, is celebrating another record breaking year of residential and agricultural sales in Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado. We ended 2009 with just over 160 land, home and commercial real estate transactions on the book in over 9 counties in Kansas and Colorado. After the record setting pace of land sales, mostly production farm ground, over the last 2 years the US economy hit the wall. Many spoke of depression and the economic outlook was bleak. However, in the mighty midwest conservative values and good business principles kept us, while not untouched, less affected by the economic downturn.&nbsp;


Land appreciation did level slightly in 2009 compared to 2008, but still turned in stronger numbers than the previous year. Faulkner Real Estate's 13 REALTORS sold nearly 13,000 acres of land and minerals in 9 counties in Kansas and Colorado and for 33 Sellers! We specialize in small to medium tract of 160 to 2,000+ acres and benefit greatly from our founder's sales method the &quot;private auction&quot; developed by my father Mark. The Private Auction is a sales method combining the control of a traditional private treaty sale with the benefits of speed and unlimited sales potential of an auction. We sell 90% of our land by private auction and get it sold in under 75 days.&nbsp;

Many farmers have mentioned their concern about the effect of thousands of acres of land coming out of the Conservation Reserve Program, more commonly referred to as CRP. While there has been an increased supply of CRP land, we have not seen a decrease in sales price. Many farmers see this as an unprecedented opportunity to increase their land holdings as large families seek to simplify their holdings and transfer them to other investments. CRP continues to sell well in Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado.

What are farmers buying in Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado? Are farmers still buying irrigated farm ground or are they seeking to simplify with dryland ground? The mix has remained fairly similar to years past. One thing that we are experiencing is stronger appreciation of the best land either dryland or irrigated land with very good water. While the aquifer may be slowly depleting the best irrigated land is still brining very good prices in Kansas and Colorado; and is a great bargain compared to many states in the midwest.

Southwest Kansas land and real estate sales remain strong as we begin 2010. Faulkner Real Estate is currently marketing over 6,000 acres of land and farm ground for 5 Sellers in western Kansas and the Oklahoma panhandle, with much more in the works. We continue to be successful thanks to our average marketing time of approximately 75 days, while obtaining above market value sales figures on most properties. Mark Faulkner, has definitely carved his niche in Western Kansas Land sales with his Private Auction. The hardest thing for me as our marketing manager is to stay on top of each new sale and get word out to the public about this proven sales method we have developed over the last 11 years. We're not 11 year young though; we've been serving Buyers and Sellers in Western Kansas, Eastern Colorado and the Oklahoma panhandle for over 24 years!

Faulkner Real Estate in Ulysses, Kansas is also staying on top of the Real Estate market in Western Kansas through our partnerships. We have partnered with both www.LandWatch.com and LandsofAmerica.com for the best online exposure. In addition, we will be introducing our new website this month including complete MLS IDX integration. Now Buyers and Sellers will be able to view all of southwest Kansas' real estate listings via one source&nbsp;www.faulknerrealestate.com. In addition all of our auctions benefit from weekly exposure in the High Plains Journal and area publications like the Tri-State Exchange, The Ulysses News and Vendor, The Hugoton Hermes, etc.

Farmers in Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado are benefiting from their sound business practices and conservative values. I can honestly say it is a pleasure to go to work for them each day.
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            <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:29:12 -0600</pubDate>
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