Iowa Hunting Land For Sale

We manage property, hunt, and sell hunting parcels full-time. The gist is this: WE KNOW hunting and wildlife Land! Let us help you find or sell your Iowa dream property! NOTE: If we don't have what you are looking for at the moment, call Rich at 641-919-9026 and we will try to find it for you!

Rich Waite is a licensed Realtor in Iowa and works for and through Miller Realty, LLC as a Wildlife Habitat Specialist. Rich is a member of the Southeast Iowa Board of Realtors, The Iowa Association of Realtors and the National Association of Realtors.

There are some things in life that you just have to see to believe. The deer that roam this farm fit into that category! The owner has photographed and has seen all kinds of bucks in the 150-190 inch range in just the last couple of years!

3 year old orchard with approximately 50 apple trees -- with specie-specific apple varieties chosen to drop fruit from late summer to late fall -- through entire deer season. These custom-grafted semi-dwarf trees should start producing fruit this next year and will really help pull in the bucks!

The terrain is made up of steep wooded draws for superb security habitat for all deer and is expecially attractive to those bigger bucks. Long, narrow, and fairly flat food plot fields with excellent soil quality fill the gap between wooded ridges and ravines.

Farm is bordered by hundreds and hundreds of acres of heavy forestland and is only 1/4 mile from the fertile Des Moines River valley. This corridor is know world-wide as one of the top regions for producing trophy whitetails in the world!

Wake up to the warm spring sunshine in your 15x18 Master Suite, with 12x10 walk-in-closet, oversize master bath/shower, and 2 person Jacuzzi; smell the aroma of freshly brewed coffee flowing down the hall from the fully equiped chef's kitchen; step onto the back 12x16 ft deck right from your Master Suite and enjoy that cup of coffee while watching the deer travel back to their bedding areas just after first light; watch that sly red fox "mousing" from atop a hay bale in the back field. Or, watch that showy rooster pheasant doing his springtime dance for a nearby hen.

The main floor is 1900 square feet with a 20x25 ft. Great Room, featuring a 35ft high gorgeous cathedral ceiling -- this opens to the large kitchen and dining area where you can walk out onto the back deck that extends across the back of the house overlooking the entire property.

The basement features 1900 sq ft of space with a 20x16 ft exercise room, 16x16 storage room, and two other 16x16 ft rooms. These three rooms could be additional bedrooms or whatever you envision them to be!. There is also a 20 x 25 ft Great Room, with walk-out, 3/4 bathroom and large mechanical room featuring the heart and soul of this house: the ultimate in efficiency, a Geo Thermal heating and air conditioning system , with horizontal loop field. There is a large water softener as well as radiant foot heating!

Outside you will find a 3900 square foot metal building which contains 4 horse stalls, 18x22 ft tack room, 24x12 woodworking shop and room for a 35 ft round riding pen, if desired! Of course, if you aren't into horses these spaces are only limited by your imagination!

The landscape features 125 acres of rolling hills, meadows and forestland. There are approximately 60 acres of crop/pasture (currently rented at $7,000/yr). Crops of hay, corn and beans. There are aproximately 60 acres of rolling to step timber ground, featuring a mixed variety of hardwoods, with intermittent drainages and ridges laced to hundreds of acres of quality whitetail connecting habitat. There appear to be several classic areas to set up for an Iowa Giant Whitetail Here!

There are some nice timbered pockets and the farm is in a superb location adjacent property being managed for big deer. This property features great building sites, spectacular views, and with rural water and power right at the road. This one could easily cough up a huge buck or two each year. Don't be decived by a lack of trees on the aerial! Deer numbers are superb in the area and deer have the ability to grow to old ages here with the trophy management that is taking place on neighboring properties. If this were my farm, I would plant native grasses that grow 5-7 feet tall, plant an orchard or two, and plant a couple areas of cedar thickets. Of course, I would also put in some food plots. Just a few things and this farm could be unreal! This farm is a SLEEPER! Come take a look before it is too late! Priced at $160,000

This property appears to be the heart and soul of deer activity in this entire area due to the creek systems and numerous gullies/drainage's it contains! Yet, the property is surrounded by great deer habitat as well. This property should give the owner annual chances at at least one Iowa Brute!

Dozens of wooded ridges with inter-connected drainages to funnel all sorts of deer movement during the rut -- different bucks can come from a multitude of different directions here, with hundreds and hundreds of acres of surrounded forest land -- maximizing the odds the you will cross paths with at least one wall-hanger buck on your hunt!

Prime river-bottom farm ground just across the road to the south pulls deer through this property to feed on a daily basis -- This means the deer are headed to you, towards where you park near the road, so you don't have to go marching around in the timber busting deer around to hunt them!

Tillable acres have been planted to tall -- and very expensive -- native grass habitat: big bluestem, indiangrass, wild rye, little bluestem, dropseed, etc. Can you say SUPERB whitetail sanctuary cover; SUPERB wild turkey nesting cover;and, SUPERB pheasant and quail habitat! We also planted a bunch of gorgeous native prarie wildflowers to add some more eye-candy PUNCH to the already stellar views!

This farm has two custom-built, and completely insulated, 8 x 8 foot tower stands that are approximately 23 feet high. Each is identical and was designed by Iowa Wildlife Habitat Services to be totally scent-tight, and to be perfect for shooting a bow out of! (or gun). These are the best hunting blinds I have ever seen in my life!

Timber is rolling hills, with a mixture of white, red, black, and shingle oaks, with hickory and other hardwoods species as well. There are areas of more open understory as well as extremely thick areas. RED CEDAR are common on the ridges and points and make ideal winter cover areas for whitetails, especially on the south-slope areas. This farm is a MAJOR deer holding area! COVER GALORE! Some marketable timber!

Rich, fertile bottomland and upland crop fields in the Des Moines River corridor provide vital nutrients to help buck gain size to their full potential -- fast! Numerous bucks in the 160-220 inch range have come from within 2 miles of this area just in the past couple of years! I expect this farm to be a perenial producers of multiple bucks over 160 B & C inches.

This farm "backs into" my own farm -- as owner of Iowa Wildlife Habitat Services -- I can tell you, first-hand, that the farm produces big bucks! They come and go across our boundary fence and I have seen some huge sets of antlers going over that fence!

Any new owner of this farm would certainly benefit greatly by having my farm next door, as they can be reassured that no small bucks will ever be shot. This effectively raises the size of the management area of the 208 acres up to 325 acres! I am trying to grow bucks in the 180 range and bigger and have already established that goal to a good extent. The owner of this 208 will certainly reap those benefits as well.

HUGE Turn-Key opportunity awaits! Don't wait to buy -- BUY and WAIT! But not too long because the the guests are already on their way! Much of 2011 is already booked and these cabins are booked up most of the time, year-round! Great place for an on-site owner/manager to live and work and make a very good living. Or hire it out! It's your choice. Currently, the owners live off-site but do much of the house keeping, and all of the book keeping, themselves. Move to Iowa to fish and hunt and make a living right here! This IS a GREAT opportunity for someone that we don't see every day -- that's for sure!

Nine custom-built cabins within 300 yards of one of the best fisheries in Iowa -- 575 acre Lake Sugema! This lake is built for fishermen, and is full of structure and cover, and produces big catches of bass, crappie, bluegill, walleye and has musky too!

(I have personally caught dozens of bass over 5 pounds from this lake -- all released alive -- and on up to 8 lb's. There have been many magazine articles, and even some fishing show segments, featuring this lake over the past 18 years or so since the dam was built.)

The cabins vary in size but are all built to quality standards and have full bathroom/showers, kitchens, bunk and regular beds, dining areas, furniture, air conditioning, heating, etc. They are comfortable. There are 3 larger and 6 smaller ones. Picnic tables, grills and fire pits are perfectly placed outside for full enjoyment and ease of use.

Over 3,000 acres of public hunting land surround the lake -- most of which are lightly hunted and serve up lots of deer and turkey. This is also a "sleeper" area for pheasant and quail hunting in southeast Iowa! I know because I hunt it!

You won't have any problem finding deer or turkey on this one! What a spectacular parcel in a park like setting, featuring a one-of-a-kind 3,000 Square foot home (built in 1997), 24 x 30 detached garage, 2400 sq ft (60 x 40) pole building and 510 acres of secluded Iowa Wildlife Paradise!

Isolated, gated, gravel lane leads back to the 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath, 3,000 sq foot, one-level, home -- with spectacular views in all directions, but in particular, overlooking the secluded meadows and creek bottom timber to the south.

Beautiful hardwood ridges (mixed oak species) and park-like forest areas abound; Areas of thick younger timber and areas of older, more mature, white and red oak timber as well -- lots of dark-barked, and potentially very valuable, black walnuts along the drainages. Hunting site options everywhere and for myriad wind directions! Discreet exit and entry into stand locations -- not a problem!

This farm sits square in the middle of some of the best trophy whitetail habitat on planet earth! Land features an ideal break-up of habitats to excel in the habitat diversity regard which is what whitetails thrive in! Timber, meadows, farm, fields, crp program grass land, creek bottom areas - white oak ridge-tops -- they are all here in abundance!

Great food plot areas -- to hold and grow those giant bucks -- are only limited by your imagination. Lots of space -- and with high quality soils to hold and grow them here! Watch bucks from all directions through your spotting scope or binoculars from the deck of your house. You can have your cake and eat it too!

I have personally seen bucks in the 180 inch range on an adjacent farm and this is a proven area for bucks to grow huge -- bucks to 230 inches, and bigger, come from within 5 miles of here every year! This region as a whole contains a very well balanced population of deer -- with excellent numbers, great genetics, and generally excellent buck to doe ratios! You would look HARD to find a better region than this one for fast growing/high scoring buck potential!

Here is what dreams are made of! This property features gorgeous rolling, timbered, hills and meadows with various oaks and a unique pine grove (which loads up during the winter with whitetails)! This area is known for producing BIG bucks. The region is filled with fertile soils and plenty of rugged topography.

Two homes over-look a spectacular 8-acre lake that's filled with bass, bluegills, crappies and catfish. Walk out your door and fish off your own dock or slip into the woods to hunt trophy whitetails. This is truly a very rare sportsman's dream property! And since there are two nice homes, it's a perfect property for partners to invest in or for the family and guests to stay when they visit!

Income: $16,000 -$22,000 (CRP and Tillable); CRP contract = 28.3 acres x $144 per acre thru 2012 (should be able to re-enroll at over $200 per acre, according to owner). Tillable is 92 acres x $130 per acre (should be able to easily raise this to near $200 per acre based on soils quality/type, according to owner).

*This straight from the landowner* Best genetics I have ever seen. We’ve killed, seen or found sheds from dozens of bucks over the years from 165” to 220”. You can also see the sheds we’ve found. 200” typical 11 point in trail cam pic was taken across road BUT was seen several times on this farm & his shed was found on this farm. 213” shot across road to southwest. 190” 4&1/2 killed in youth season, 182” 15 point with 24” spread, etc, etc. 190” across road in 2009. Sheds from several other 200”+ bucks. I could go on and on. I can verify all deer shot, sheds, trail cams or pictures are from this land or immediate neighbor. 232” (net score - NT) Jefferson county monster was killed 3-4 miles from here in 2008 (In North American Whitetail Magazine).

Crop and CRP field areas are feature high quality and fertile soils that help grow big bucks fast! Soils average in the 60-80 CSR range in many areas! (that is high-grade crop ground that can sell for $4,000-$6,000 per acre, or more, on it's own!)

Timber Stand Improvement project carried out on nearly all forested acres to maximize acorn production (7-10 times normal oaks) and double speed of growth. Property has high quality red and white oak along with a host of other hardwood species. Marketable timber on this farm!

Farms sets up very well with lots of funnels and travel corridors -- there are tracks, trails, dropping, rubs and scrapes all over the place on this farm -- and the buck/doe ratio is 1:1 - 1:2 according to owner! I personally kicked up deer everywhere I walked on this place! Turkeys too!

13 acre, HEAVILY WOODED parcel! HUGE white and red oak trees, some with veneer trunks -- timber value here! Deep ravines and gorgeous flat-topped ridges. Outstanding building locations for that dream cabin! Easy access through the center of parcel and out to nearby gravel road. Rural water and power at gravel road. Easy access (gravel road on one side). Deer and turkey galore! Right across the road from Stephens State Forest and hundreds of acres of remote public hunting. This is an excellent big buck area! It is RARE to find a super high-quality slice of oak forest like this!

Kick back on the 3/4 wrap around deck of this rustic cabin and watch nature all around! Great 1.3 acre wooded lot, with up to 8 more acres available! Cabin sits on a 240 acre m/l private area (that you can hunt on and is LOADED with deer) and includes full access to a stocked 25 acre lake as well as 4 other ponds! (This is a lightly developed area with just a few other homes and cabins on the area). Enjoy hundreds and hundreds of acres of top-quality public land in the adjacent state forest for anything you like to hunt -- deer and turkey are very abundant and big bucks come off these areas every year! State land is just a few yards from the cabin door!

65.7 tillable acres (30 acres being cropped and 35.7 are in CRP). There are two CRP contracts. One is 18.9 acres through September of 2017 and pays $1718 per year. The other is 16.8 acres and was paying $1360 per year through 2010. However, a renewal request was asked for and the landowner will be notified of the outcome by Mid October 2010. If granted, the payment on this will probably almost double. If not granted, these acres could easily be cash rent farmed and should bring $2,500 per year. The 30 cropland acres are presently being cash rented for $4600 per year. Total income of farm is estimated at $8800 per year.

132 acres, m/l timber Note: timber acres have been professionally managed for increased log growth of quality oaks and walnuts. This management also greatly enhances acorn production of 7-10 X that of "normal" forestland. This is HUGE in that it provides a much superior attraction and deer holding capacity on the forested acres of this farm than on surrounding forest land. This was done through the Timber Stand Improvement program in coordination with the Iowa State Forester and IWHS. Timber acres are a mix of species including, white oak, black oak, shingle oak, red oak, swamp white oak, pin oak, shagbark hickory, bitternut hickory, black cherry, black walnut, white and green ash, white elm, red elm, honey locust, ironwood, ohio buckeye, etc., etc., from small to very large!

Over 35 acres have been planted to tall native warm season grasses -- Indian grass and big bluestem. These grasses grow 5-8 feet tall and provide bucks with sanctuary and bedding cover of the highest and most favorable quality! Estimated establishment costs of these grasses is over $300 per acre.

Farm is surrounded by hundreds of contiguous acres of quality deer habitat! This provides a vital resource area for bucks to roam in from during the rut (transient bucks from afar and allows for the highest possible carry capacity for bucks and does alike (since deer can use bordering properties, when needed, for meeting vital habitat requirments).

Property comes with 7 immediate action, and in-your-email-instantaneously, Buckeye trail cameras, complete with satellite cellular field station setup and base station computer modem! Each camera also comes with solar panel setup! This setup will feed any and all pictures to your email as soon as they are taken -- does video too! Change all camera settings from your computer in seconds! Makes no difference where you live, so long as you have computer/Internet access you will be able to monitor your property and deer herd year-round and on a second-by-second basis! If you are serious about this property, let me know and in seconds we can have you receiving pictures from this property to see what kind of deer are there RIGHT NOW!!! (You never have to mess with dead batteries or camera cards with this system -- you never have to mess with these cameras once they are set up!)

Mixed habitat consisting of open fields planted to various native grasses (Big bluestem, Indiangrass and Switchgrass) These grasses are VERY expensive to plant and really attract and hold a diversity of wildlife, including whitetails!

Phenomenal trophy deer area: Less than 10 total days of hunting yielded two bucks over 165 in the last 3 years! (much bigger bucks have been seen, including huge drop-tines and monster typicals estimated to be in the 180-190 class! A buck that landed on the front cover of North American Whitetail magazine a couple of years ago was harvested within 5 miles or so of this farm!)

Professional timber stand improvement has been done on all the timber to enhance selected crop trees for 7-10 times more acorn production on the oaks, too maximize the speed of growth -- up to twice that of an unmanaged forest -- and too maximize quality of the logs should one ever decide to harvest them.

These are what I call "low twitch" deer. That is, deer that don't jump out of their skin at any slight occurance of human detection -- the deer on this farm are fairly used to people (they encounter them on the state park refuge) so getting close to them can be easier than on other farms.

Professional timber stand improvement work and timber management plan in place and come with property! This work turns oaks into acorn- producing rain makers, encouraging them to drop 7-10 more acorns than before! It also forces them to grow 1-2 X faster than before and produce the highest quality log possible to maximize timber/log value!

(This one comes with over $100 per acre in annual income for the next 9 years! Sure you can buy a $3500 per acre farm field that produces that much income but which one would your rather hunt? Which one has NO farmer/tenant headache issues? Don't let this property slip past you! Fantastic income plus Fantastic hunting!)

Rich's Comments: On one trip here this spring, I jumped 800-1,000 mallards off the wetland. There were also 3-4 dozen Canada geese. Wood ducks, divers, shovelers, widgeon, teal and even some snow geese and white pelicans were there too! I also saw 20-30 whitetails and there were several gobblers and hens in the food plot. With the super productive soils, various clovers seeded nearly everywhere, native grasses and abundance of water, this place supports and attracts a phenomenal amount of wildlife. I have seen 250 acre farms with much less wildlife than this one offers! All ths and being in the heart of a large managed area for trophy whitetails

Great area for huge deer (Farm lies in the heart of a large area managed from trophy bucks. We've seen many big bucks on this parcel. We have shut the gate on the buck harvest here for the last couple of years. Why? because we simply don't have enough time to hunt all of our parcels! Check out Wapello county in the record books -- net typicals up to 200 inches! They are on this one folks!)

Rich's Note: I hunted this one time in September 2010. I shot a limit of bluewing teal and wood ducks and had hundreds of teal, wood ducks, shovelers, widgeon, and over 50 Canada geese land in and around my decoys! It can be incredible hunting here!

Price: $3550/acre (Compare this price to farm ground that is cash renting for $90-$130 per acre, per year and selling for 4-7 K, and more, per acre and you'll see this a good price. And you don't have management headaches with this one -- just hunting)! Contact rich@iowahabitats.com for your showing or with questions on this parcel.

Very rare plant communities here consisting of 10-20 acres of native tallgrass prairie (less than .1% of the state's original native prairie communities remain) and diverse wetland plant communities along the river. Big bucks absolutely LOVE bedding in thick native prarie grass!!!

Forest areas consist of dense oak/hickory stands (white oak, black oak, red oak, shingle oak, burr oak, swamp white oak, black cherry, black walnut, bitternut hickory, shagbark hickory and eastern red cedar, examples...) Excellent species for mixed variety acorn/nut/soft fruit/ production for deer, turkey, and a variety of other wildlife species

This parcel crams about as many quality features into 100 acres or less as can be done! It's a killer whitetail property that sets up great for hunting and is in an area with a rich past of trophy deer production: The big ones are here!

Very nice CRP seeding of tall native grasses featuring Indiangrass and Big bluestem. These grasses are a key habitat component that enhance big buck attractivness to an area and provide vital bedding, chasing and security cover to all age classes of deer throughout the seasons. Tall native grasses also make ideal nesting and brooding habitat turkey, quail, pheasant and many species of songbirds.

Over 70 acres of timber. Much of this timber is high-quality white oak timber that is very valuable and getting bigger and more valuable every day! A professional Forest Management Plan is in place and work is underway to maximize the mast (acorn) production of the various oak species, to speed the growth of oak, cherry, hickory and walnut and to maximize the quality of these species.

Can you say heavy cover! This place has it in spades! This is an ideal farm to hold and hunt mature whitetail bucks. There are some park-like areas of mature oaks, having limited forest-floor growth; but, there are also lots of ultra-thick areas that big bucks CRAVE and NEED to live to that old age, giant rack category!

LOTS of Marketable Timber, Too-- A Great Investment! * Full timber inventory growth projection shows 60-85K in markable timber on this parcel in just 5 years!!! If elected to do so, IWHS will show you how a timber harvest will actually improve your hunting!) Let the trees pay off most of your mortgage! *

Unbelievable waterfowling opportunities here! Thousands and thousands and thousands of Canada geese and mallards winter on and around this parcel! (I know, because I see and photograph them around this parcel every fall and winter!) Even when the migration is not "on", there are at least some birds winging around here, between the river and the refuge right next door. You can see from the aerial why the birds like to fly over here: they short-cut the point of the river and see all the water in the refuge, plus the oxbow shoot that cut's through this parcel!

Catch fish -- some of the biggest in the state -- along some of your very own Des Moines River frontage! This section is in the downstream tailwater area of the lowhead dam in Ottumwa and stays ice free most winters. Some of the biggest walleye and saugeye in the state come from here (state record saugeye caught below the dam).

A breathtaking hilltop view from this spacious four-bedroom ranch-style home situated on 117 Acres. Many details and much thought put into this one. Beautiful hardwood floors, custom oak cabinets, trim, and doors, ceramic tile, and five fireplaces throughout. Enjoy the master suite with a wonderful view of the rolling pastures and trees, double walk-in closets and jetted whirlpool tub. 48'x40' heated pole barn, machine shed, pond, and five fenced pastures.

Travis is a new Wildlife Habitat Specialist and Land Sales Specialist serving south-east and east-central Iowa.Travis is a professional forester by trade and is also a licensed Iowa real estate agent specializing in Land Sales. Travis has hunted most of his life and has a passion for whitetail and turkey hunting. Unlike most sales agents who say they know land -- Travis KNOWS LAND. He works on habitat management full-time with IWHS doing native grass seedings, planting food plots, measuring timber, planting trees, etc. Travis doesn't just talk the talk -- He Walks the Walk! You can count on passion and professionalism with Travis with all of your real estate needs! Give him a call today!

An Iowa State University Forestry Graduate with real-world management and consulting experience with IWHS -- and with a deep hunting Iowa hunting heritage background! He is here to serve you and all of your needs -- focusing mainly in south-central and central Iowa. Give Derek a call TODAY!

We sell carefully selected properties in key areas with certain goals in mind, i.e., big buck production, upland birds, turkeys, etc. All IWHS owned properties are managed from top to bottom by us. Remember: we are full-time professional wildlife land managers -- not just someone here to sell you a property! We want to see and help you, if desired, turn your property purchase into the dream wildlife parcel you've always wanted! And there is so much more to trophy buck and wild gamle management than just food plots!!!! We hope you'll shop around. If you do, you'll notice other properties around the state advertised for as much or more than ours and, by and large, are totally unmanaged. Many are simply a number on a list to a real estate agent. When you buy an IWHS property, you don't get a "plain jane" piece of unmanaged, over-grazed ground off a list, but rather a turn-key hunting and wildlife parcel managed from timber to prairie to food plot! (# sign next to listing indicates that property is an IWHS property)

NOTE: All # listings also designated with **symbols adjacent the listing header are owned and managed by IWHS and come with our FREE extensive, comprehensive, wildlife consulting plan prepared by our staff (includes written plan and video). Iowa Wildlife Habitat Services (IWHS) gurantees, which may be verified by inspection, the aucthenticity of the photos representing it's properties!

$$$ Payment Estimate feature is meant for payment estimations only and is in no way a guarantee of actual numbers. However, numbers used are actual from farm data provided to us. Terms/rates used as examples can and do change from lender to lender and depend upon various borrower specific and farm specific factors. However -- numbers given to represent bank loan terms are meant to reflect current market conditions and rates that may indeed be likely. Further, estimates given are estimates only but are meant to be as accurate and as current as possible to provide a realistic example of probable mortgage expense as related to farm income. Not all payment estimates include real estate taxes. Real estate taxes are included in examples where real estate tax data has been supplied to us. Also note: farm income may be shown as monthly instead of annually in some cases. However, actual payments may occur only on an annual or semi-annual basis. Income may be shown as paid monthly to make an easier comparison to monthly mortgage payments. Also note that annual or semi annual mortgage payments, instead of monthly, are fairly common as well.

Rich Waite, owner of IWHS, is a licensed Realtor in Iowa and works for and through Miller Real Estate, LLC as a Wildlife Habitat Specialist. Rich is a member of the Southeast Iowa Board of Realtors, The Iowa Association of Realtors and the National Association of Realtors.

Important note: Properties with an * or ** next to the listing header indicate an IWHS owned and managed property. Properties with a # sign next to the listing header are those listed by and through Miller Realty LLC; Rich Waite and IWHS, make no claim to be an independent seller of properties so indicated with the # symbol.

Note: Timber cruise estimates of marketable timber value are generally quite accurate-- but are estimates only. Actual inventory numbers are the most accurate for indicating marketable timber value. Total inventory of all marketable tree species within the next 10 years on tracts soon to come.

Note: Information on this page deemed reliable and accurate to the best of our knowledge. However, we are not responsible for inaccuracies and prospective buyers should verify property details first-hand. All estimates of timber value are estimates only. Actual board foot showing quantity (quantity) requires a more thourough analysis.