The ranch is blessed with abundant water rights, and an impressive collection irrigation improvements. Two reservoirs impound up to 650 acre-feet of water. Two additional ponds provide take-up supplies for pivot pumps. During normal operation, no pumping of ground water is required for irrigation.
Wells are on site for occasional use in dry years, and for the very end of the irrigation season.
Three Valley center pivots covering about 440 acres of ground, about 270 acres in hay production, about 170 acres in meadow. All turn key, one man push-button operation. Wells Three wells located on ditches upstream from larger meadows. During the growing season, fertilizer can be applied easily at minimal cost by pumping into the pivot water from two 1500 gallon tanks near the pivot pumps. Known as fertigation, the method saves on the labor and hassle of applying by spray rig.