Check out the video: The Braids The Braids is likely one the North Plattes best stretches of river. If you like river itself, love hunting it for ducks and geese, you likely wont find a better chunk of flatwater than The Braids period! Furthermore, even if you dont have a desire to hunt the river itself, you still wont find many stretches more suitable for roosting waterfowl particularly Central Flyway mallards and Canada geese! This is due to its character. If you are already a river hunter, you know what you look for shallow and slower decoy water its gold! Corn: In addition to exceptional river, The Braids has approx. 284 acres of it irrigated corn under 3 center pivots! This is significant because there has been a moratorium on any new wells in the North Platte River Valley since 2002. And to ask any locals who drive by, these circles have geese on them almost every day during December, January, and into February, and a HUGE amount at that! Of course, deer, pheasants, and turkey respond without question! So, if you like field hunting, or want crops for income, or just a food source to draw game, its hard to beat corn, everything loves it, and the Braids has plenty! Grass: CRP (Conservation Reserve Program) was one of the biggest booms to game species in the last century. Nesting habitat to thermal cover, the pheasants, upland birds, waterfowl, deer, and multiple non-game species literally exploded! CRP means wildlife! CRP means game! And though the Braids only has 15.12 acres enrolled in the CRP program, there are plenty of tall grass acres that might as well be. Therefore, the Braids has some tremendous bedding cover for deer. But it also has a quite robust pheasant population! River Control: If anything needs to be said about owning river ground, it is that the best situation is to own both sides. And there are few places that do. The current owner first purchased the acres on the north side, but made a tremendous move when he purchased the south side. This immediately made both side more valuable as a collective. Because first you are simply not competing for a spot to hunt with a neighbor across the river, who might argue that the spot is actually on his side. As well, you decrease the danger. And it simply ensures more distance between hunting setups minimizing interference. But most of all, it allows you to manage your stretch or river as you like. If you want to hunt it, so be it. If you want to leave it for sanctuary, you can. Or a smart thing to do is to choose a plan to set aside a portion as a roost/sanctuary, then hunt the other portions. River control is huge!!! Waterfowl There are very good whitetails, quite a few pheasants and turkeys yes, but Waterfowl would be this propertys calling card. And to hunt mallards and Canadas, the Braids could provide river hunting, field hunting, warm water creek hunting, and with a little investment of development, slough or other shallow water wetland hunting. Geese: Regarding geese, The Braids has a zillion!!! Nobody knows what a zillion is, but you get the point. There are plenty of roosts up and down the river, but this one is mondo! From one end to the other, and in all channels, there are geese swimming and resting every day and night once they arrive on their wintering plan. Beyond this property too to the east and to the west, the same. It is one gigantic roost!!! I have seen plenty of plenty, but this one is extremely impressive! Ducks: Thousands of mallards fly this section of river. And the Braids has a little warm water creek that never freezes, which loads up with mallards by the thousands in the truly cold conditions, and good usage even milder weather. But when really cold, it will be amazing! The river itself of course will succeed in killing mallards in mild temps to slush-ice conditions. But another beautiful asset of The Braids, is its potential for shallow water wetland improvements. There are several wonderful meandering depressions, that could easily be made into something great opportunity for restoration! As well, some other water features could be created that would give the property the addition of truly ducky spots, which would hunt puddle ducks in all conditions. Then you would have it all. Deer This river bottom does have trophy-class whitetail. In the 2019 season, a hunter, never hunted the area prior, took two very respectable whitetails a mature buck measuring 161-5/8 (with a broken tine that might or might not have put him right at 170). And a nice deer that probably should have gone another year, but still measured 148. And though cameras have not been run prior to this listing, I was able in January to capture a very interesting deer. Either a damaged or an odd genetic, one side was kind of laid over, but the other side was huge! Probably a 180 buck if both sides were like the one! Point being, there are good genetics. Pheasants I know the area well of the Braids, but only actually been on this particular property since the beginning of this year (2020). And I have been amazed at the number of pheasants! There are a lot! Dont get me wrong. You arent buying this place for the pheasants alone. You do that in South Dakota. But one time I saw about 13 roosters standing together and then kicked up more as I drove across towards the river. And almost every time I am on the property, I see at least some usually quite a few. Hard telling an actual amount of pheasants, but by all indications, I would have no problem hunting some ringnecks from time to time on The Braids, if I owned it! They are cool bonus indeed! Turkeys On the South side of the river are more roost trees and brush. Accordingly, are also the majority of the propertys turkeys. Hard to assess how many yet, but there are at least a huntable amount on The Braids. The owner told me on the south side, there are about 30 or so that roost there in the spring. However, he killed a good tom on the north. My assumption is that the Braids is not an incredible turkey property compared to others around here, but has enough for friends and family to take a few longbeards every year. Conclusion This property feels big! And that was actually said to me by another realtor who looked at it on behalf of his client. Properties are funny that way. Some are large but dont feel it. Some are small and feel much larger for any number of reasons. The Braids is a place that feels like it could be set up to hunt waterfowl in multiple places, simultaneously or in rotation, without pushing the birds off. I hunted geese on it a few times at the end of the season, and even on the river what we noticed, is that while shooting guns and killing birds on one spot, on one channel, we never lifted any off of anywhere else and thousands were sitting on the river channels all around us not ultra-close, but up and down the property. And then you add on all the very large field areas. There are so many choices as to where to develop a spot, or simply set up a spread, it seems like you could easily fall prey to being a victim of over-choice where do you begin? This would allow you to create hunting sites far enough apart, and far enough from roosting birds to enjoy hunting many places and many settings, while not diminishing your chain of supply! All in all, if I were still aggressively identifying properties to own and develop for myself, this one is one that I would want truly! Its cool! You could do a club, or keep it all to yourself, your family, or invite friends and business associates, and impress them all as well as yourself with a different place to hunt every day! I love the Braids and will be excited to see who gets it. Fun to see if they take an already tremendous place that comes by it naturally, and do something even more interesting with it! I would! Total Acres: 725 acres (approx.) Irrigated: 284 Center Pivot Irrigated (currently in corn) Grass: 15.12 acres in CRP. Approximately 64.50 Acres of other Grass and other Cover River Control: Nearly 1 mile of river, both sides, multiple channels. Pivots: Northwest (Quarter Circle approx.) Zimatic Pivot with 6 Towers and 20 H.P. US Electric Motor Center (Full Circle) Zimatic Pivot with 8 Towers and 50 H.P. US Electric Motor Southeast (Nearly Half Circle Approx.) Olson Pivot with 9 Towers and 50 H.P. US Electric Motor 2 Pit blinds: One is quite new, well built out of steel, and very nice! The other is older, made from a tank of some sort, but not bad. It could use some TLC but absolutely worth doing. And it is located in a great spot! Income: (Farm Cash Rent:) Existing 3-year contract of $10K per year, 2 years left through 2021. Afterwards can go to market value Average rent in 2020 $150 per acre. Taxes: $6,779.78 Legal Description: Township 18 North, Range 46 West of the 6th P.M., Morrill County, Nebraska: Section 19: PT S1/2NE, PT SENW, E1/2SW, SE (all S of Hwy) (Exc UPRR & Tract Land Section 30: Lots 1-2 and Govt Lots 3-4 Township 18 North, Range 47 West of the 6th P.M., Morrill County, Nebraska: Section 25: ACCR to Govt Lots 1 Address:Lisco, NE 69148 County:Garden