16900 NM-28, La Mesa, NM 88044

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16900 NM-28 is located in La Mesa, NM.

$14,000/acre

PROPERTY DESCRIPTION
The Rancho Grande Farm has been in the Esslinger family since the early 1930’s when JL Esslinger Sr. acquired the farm north of La
Mesa, New Mexico. JL Esslinger Jr took over the farm in 1949 and began living, working the farm and raising his family. Gary Esslinger
still remains living on the farm. The farm has grown a variety of crops since that time; including Pima and short staple cotton, alfalfa,
corn silage, forage crops, lettuce, cabbage and onions. The one crop that has not been grown on the farm is chile. The farm is serviced
by EBID canals and laterals and this infrastructure also is used to convey groundwater from the two irrigation wells located on the farm
as well as through concrete and dirt farm ditches.
Over the years the farm has acquired the appropriate EBID surface rights that provide ample surface water when available. During the
drought of the 1950’s, two large irrigation wells were drilled and supplemented the farm irrigation when EBID surface water was limited.
The farm can be serviced by these two wells and recently in a Stream Adjudication Settlement the entire farm received a total combined
irrigation right of 4.5 ac/ft surface and ground water. The settlement also offered farmers the ability to prove up more than 4.5 ac/ft; if
evidence could be shown that the farm used more than that amount. Documents and evidence was provided to the OSE before the
deadline that this farm has used as much as 5.8 ac/ ft. and that documentation has been received by the OSE.

WELL INFORMATION
• 2 Water Wells

WELL #1
• 200’ Deep
• Natural Gas
• Drilled in 1957
• All Casing Replaced (2011)
• New 454 CID Water
Jacket Motor with Murphy
Switches (2011)

WELL #2
• 200’ Deep
• Natural Gas
• Drilled in 1959
• New 454 CID Water
Jacket Motor with
Murphy Switches (2012)