Property Description
Guthrie County, Iowa Commercial Cattle Feeding Facility – This turn-key commercial cattle feeding facility is located in east-central Guthrie County, Iowa, approximately five miles southeast of Panora, Iowa. Situated within a well-established livestock and row-crop production region, this feeding facility has been developed with efficiency, durability, and cattle performance in mind. This property offers modern improvements and a highly functional layout suitable for finishing cattle, backgrounding programs, or continued breeding and calving use. The facility features well-defined feed alleys for feeding, efficient indoor and outdoor pen layout for handling various weights of cattle, well-placed gates for efficient cattle processing and low-stress cattle handling, and concrete infrastructure that reduces weather impacts. At the core of the operation is a 43’ x 320’ hoop building, built in 2016, with eight indoor pens designed for year-round use. The hoop barn provides excellent natural ventilation and lighting, along with 12’ concrete feeding aprons, high-capacity high-back feed bunks, metal pipe fencing, and Ritchie automatic waterers shared between every two pens. The barn includes 320 feet of continuous bunk line along the southern side of the building, providing weather-protected feeding strategies during adverse conditions.
