NEW MEXICO RANCH AND FARM
REAL ESTATE

Tom Sidwell is offering his services and, ranch and farm expertise, to you, whether you are looking to sell your property, or are a buyer looking for property to purchase.  Tom is a cattle rancher, and is also an Associate Broker with New Mexico Properties Group out of Tucumcari, New Mexico.  He helps people sell and buy land all over the diversified and enchanted State of New Mexico.  Because Tom has lived and ranched in many different parts of New Mexico, his knowledge of this land is not limited to Eastern New Mexico where he now resides, but includes most of the State.  

Tom Sidwell was raised in the ranching business near the small ranching town of Carrizozo in south-central New Mexico. He attended New Mexico State University where he obtained a degree in Range Management. He also served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War Era. After graduating from NMSU, Tom worked on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona for a year as a survey crew member surveying and mapping the soil and vegetative sites on a million acres. This data was compiled and published for use by the Navajo Nation. Tom then transferred to the Bureau of Land Management in Socorro, Western New Mexico, where he spent ten years as a Supervisory Range Conservationist administering the grazing program on 1.2 million acres of public land in addition to running his small alfalfa and livestock farm.  

Tom left the federal government in order to return to his ranching roots and spent 3 years managing a ranch near Marathon, Texas, then returned to Capitan, South Central New Mexico, where he managed the 65,000-acre G Bar F Ranch for 9 years.  Tom later married Mimi and together they owned and operated a 14,000-acre BLM ranch northwest of  Roswell, in the south eastern part of New Mexico.  After selling this ranch, they moved to the Panhandle of Nebraska where they purchased and ran a diversified ranching operation, which included taking in cow/calf pairs 6 months out of the year, providing complete care, taking in guests coming for a working cattle ranch experience, and a profitable hunting operation.

After 5 years in Nebraska they decided to move back to New Mexico and be closer to family.  They purchased their current 7,000-acre cattle ranch, located 25 miles south of Tucumcari, NM.  Here they have developed yet another diversified ranching operation, which includes taking in and managing about 400 yearling steers on summer pasture, developing a herd of corriente cattle selling roping stock as well as natural beef, with the added income of the "working cattle ranch/guest ranch" and hunting operation. Tom and Mimi are planning to stay and spend many happy productive years here. Tom has two daughters and a son and and four grand-children.

Tom works with the New Mexico Property Group in Tucumcari, New Mexico, as an Associate Broker, specializing in ranches and farms, as well as other rural type properties such as hunting and recreational properties. Tom will work hard for you whether you are a seller or buyer, anywhere in New Mexico.  Tom can best be reached at the following phone numbers, or by email, and he'll be glad to visit with you about any real estate questions you may have.