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Random freezes, missing sound and display glitches usually trace back to one bad driver. Find and replace yours safely.Free scan · under a minutePawnee Springs Ranch in Lincoln County, Nebraska, reportedly sold for $56 million to Mark and Robyn Jones of Westlake, Texas. The January 20, 2026, report described the transaction as a sale of Pawnee Springs Land and Cattle LLC by Gottsch Feeding Corp. The “record” label is qualified: a broker said it was the largest total-dollar Nebraska ranch sale he could determine from records he found, not a verified statewide record.
What sold and for how much?
Nebraska Examiner reporter Cindy Gonzalez reported the $56 million transaction on January 20, 2026, citing publicly available documents. The report identifies the transferred entity as Pawnee Springs Land and Cattle LLC and says Gottsch Feeding Corp. sold it. The report does not link the underlying transaction documents, so the price and transaction details are best attributed to that account. Read the Nebraska Examiner report.
What “record” means here
Hall and Hall listing broker Mark Johnson characterized it as the largest total-dollar ranch sale he could determine from the records he found: “It’s the largest total dollar ranch sale we’ve been able to determine from any records we could find.” That is the broker’s assessment as quoted in the report; the story does not establish an independently verified statewide record or provide a complete dataset of Nebraska ranch sales.
What is included in Pawnee Springs Ranch?
The ranch was described as roughly 40,000 acres, headquartered along the North Platte River and extending north into the Sandhills. The reported features give a sense of its mix of pasture, water access and working agricultural infrastructure:
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- Nearly six miles of North Platte River frontage.
- Nine center pivots covering about 1,700 irrigated acres.
- Calf backgrounding lots with concrete bunks and an indoor/outdoor arena.
- About 2,500 mother cows.
- Native Sandhills rangeland, river corridors, fertile bottoms and wildlife habitat, with agricultural benefits associated with the Ogallala Aquifer.
These are features reported in the January 2026 article, not a complete independent inventory or a current operating audit.
Who bought the ranch, and what do they plan to do?
Mark and Robyn Jones, residents of Westlake, Texas, were identified as owners of part of Goosehead Insurance, the company they founded and grew. They said the ranch would diversify their business interests and offer their grandchildren a chance to work on a ranch. Mark Jones described the attraction as “a sizable operation that focuses on actual agricultural production,” adding that “The Sandhills quickly jumped to the top of the list.”
The report said the operation then raised calves from birth to weaning, returned them to grass as yearlings and ran agricultural pivots. The new owners said they intended to preserve the ranch’s cattle and agricultural essence and build a “world-class cattle operation” over several years. Ryan Langston, identified in the report as the ranch’s new CEO and Jones’s son-in-law, said the owners intended to hire locally where possible, work with neighbors and contribute to the community. These are plans stated at the time of the report, not confirmation of what has since changed or been completed.
How did the ranch reach the sale?
The ranch’s reported history reaches back to 1918. Former Nebraska governor Keith Neville was among its previous owners, and Peter Kiewit bought the operation in 1949. The Gottsch family behind Gottsch Feeding Corp. began leasing it in 1985 and eventually purchased the ranch. At the time of the sale report, the family said it had been part of their lives for 41 years and described the sale as difficult.
How does the price compare with another Nebraska ranch?
The article cited a $50 million asking price from the prior year for the 55,136-acre Metzger ranch. Its owners decided to keep it, so that figure is an asking price—not a completed sale price. It cannot establish a direct transaction-price comparison with Pawnee Springs, and the report provides no other completed ranch sale as a benchmark.
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