Washington State Land Auctions for Orchards and Farms

Washington Apple Orchard for Sale

Farmland covers about a third of the Washington real estate available for WA land auctions.  Farm auctions of apple orchards for sale as well as farmland suitable for another 230 different crops offer sellers an excellent way to realize best profits.  Our Certified Auctioneers perform land analysis for sellers, evaluate properties and create specific auction marketing plans for each parcel, which may include Washington online only land auctions.

Washington Farm Auction

The state's 33,000 farms cover 15 million acres with the average farm size of 458 acres.  Several factors enable successful farming in the state:

1. Farm products can be readily transported via six deepwater ports located in Western Washington.
2. Central Washington is desert but sophisticated irrigation systems have transformed it into the most productive agricultural land in the state.  Almost half of the farms are irrigated.
3. Soils vary from rich loam in valleys to desert sand.  Rich soil developed over millions of years of volcanoes, glaciers, floods, and winds.
4. The state has several climate zones.  Near the Pacific Ocean, the Maritime climate zone results in cooler summers and warmer winters.  In the Olympic Mountains, rainfall is 140 inches.  The central part of the state is a Desert climate zone and rainfall is less than 10 inches.  Most of the eastern part of the state is in the Steppe climate zone (hot summers, cold winters) with 10 to 20 inches of rain per year.  
   

Washington Land Auction

The state leads the nation in agricultural production of apples (57 percent of nation's supply valued at $1.75 billion.  Washington farmers also lead in the production of raspberries (92 percent), hops (77 percent), spearmint oil (75 percent), sweet cherries (51 percent) concord grapes (46 percent), pears (46 percent), peppermint oil (41 percent), and prunes and plums (38 percent).  Other main crops include barley, alfalfa hay, corn, lentils, onions, wine grapes, apricots, peaches, canola, garbanzo beans, blueberries, aquaculture, forest products, and varieties of vegetable seeds.

After apples, milk is the most valuable commodity, then wheat, potatoes, cattle and calves.  Animal production includes over a million cattle and calves.  A quarter of a million are dairy cows.  While dairy farms are traditionally located in the Puget Sound area of Western Washington, more are popping up in Columbia Basin and Yakima Valley in the eastern part of the state.  Seafood production includes oysters, mussels, clams, geoducks, and trout.

Washington Farm Land for Sale

The most northwestern state of the lower 48, Washington is home to 6.6 million residents.  Olympia is the capital and Seattle is the largest city (pop. about 600,000).  Across the state, United Country Real Estate has offices with the ability to host and conduct auction events in the following cities:  Colville, Davenport, Ephrata/ Moses Lake, Fort Spokane, Snohomish, and Spokane Valley.  

For more information about real estate auctions, farm auctions, and land auctions and Certified Auctioneers, contact United Country Certified Real Estate at 229-726-0065 or call toll free at 800-711-9175.  

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