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New Mexico

Singleton Ranches

A million near-blank acres. The first decision on new land is how you watch what's on it.

Deeded
937,950
Total
937,950
Herd
~14,500 est.
Acquired
Dec 2025
The Analysis · scouting readout

Optimized for sovereignty, survivability, and a new economics.

Sovereignty
5already maxed

100% deeded — 937,950 of 937,950 acres owned outright.src

You own the dirt. CacheCow makes the herd on it just as much yours — every pattern recorded, nothing dependent on a person who might leave.

Survivability
24 with CacheCow

~55 acres to feed one cow (solid stocking rate). The sparser the range, the thinner the margin when an animal goes quiet.src

Early detection turns the harshest survivability number around: respiratory trouble caught days sooner is the difference between a sick cow and a dead one, exactly where the country gives you no second chances.

Economics
5already maxed

~14,500 head sets the size of the preventable-loss pool.src

Divide the losses, multiply the survivors: every animal that doesn't die to a disease we flagged early is value that compounds back into the operation.

base CacheCow lift
The Division & Multiplication  ·  what we'd save you here

Conservatively, counting only the cattle respiratory disease would otherwise kill, caught early enough to save. It is the floor, not the ceiling: treatment cost, shrink, and lost weight are real too, and left out on purpose.

14,500
head (est. from acreage)src
×
2%
annual death losssrc
×
28%
is respiratorysrc⚠
×
27%
caught earlysrc⚠
=
21.9
head saved / yr
×
$2,600
per headsrc
Conservative floor ☞
$57,002 / year
Herd is an estimate from grazable acreage at the New Mexico stocking rate — labeled est., never presented as an actual count. The early-detection figure comes from a feedlot trial; range cow-calf dynamics differ, so we use the conservative end.
What we'd do here

The largest ranch sale in American history, and nearly a million near-blank acres. Build the listening grid from zero. No retrofits, just a herd that talks to you from the day it arrives.

On the figures · confidence High. Dec 2025 close from the heirs of Teledyne founder Henry Singleton. Largest US ranch sale in history; off-market, no terms disclosed. LR cites 937,950; some coverage rounds to 937,000.
Sources  ·  nothing here is unsourced
  1. 01The Land Report · 2026-01The largest ranch sale in American history (Singleton Ranches)
  2. 02The Land Report · 2026-01Stan Kroenke — #1 on the Land Report 100
  3. 03New Mexico State University Extension (Guide B-829)Stocking rate — worked example ~38–62 ac/AU-year
  4. 04USDA APHIS NAHMS · 2015Adult cattle annual death rate ~2%
  5. 05USDA NASS · 2011Cattle Death Loss — 4.3% of inventory; respiratory disease 28% of non-predator lossUSDA's detailed Cattle Death Loss report has not been reissued since 2011; we do not imply newer national cause-tables exist.
  6. 06Translational Animal Science (Oxford) · 2025Randomized feedlot trial: automated early BRD detection cut untreated deaths ~75% and total fallouts ~27%, treating ~3.7 days earlierSeveral authors are employed by Merck Animal Health, which makes the tested device. We cite the statistically-significant mortality/fallout figures, not the marginal per-head economic figure (P=0.06).
  7. 07CattleFax (via NCBA) · 2026-022026 full-year feeder average forecast ~$335/cwt (most conservative benchmark)
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