Ironhorse Named One of America's Best Brokerages by The Land Report
Ironhorse Land Company has been named one of America’s Best Brokerages by The Land Report in its Spring 2026 issue. Eight months in. Twelve states. Listed alongside firms that have been brokering land for decades.
There is a kind of country in this part of Nebraska where the corn gives way to grass and the grass gives way to sky. Combines parked at the edge of fields. Pickup trucks idling at gravel intersections. The occasional rider moving cattle from one pasture to the next. This is the country Ironhorse Land Company was built to serve. Not from a corner office in a city, but from inside the work itself.
On September 1, 2025, Koby Rickertsen, ALC and Brian Reynolds opened the doors of a new brokerage in Gothenburg, Nebraska. Between them, decades of selling farm, ranch, and recreational land across the Plains. Both of them tired of watching land transactions handled by people who had never walked the property they were listing. A third founder, Brittany Hurdle Murphy, came on to build the brand, the marketing, and the operational backbone the company would need to grow. Three founders. One company. A lot of phone calls.
Inside the First Eight Months
The first eight months looked like the work always looks. The seller in western Kansas still needs an honest answer about her quarter section. A buyer in Wyoming still needs to understand the access. An agent in Iowa still needs to make the next call. Plat maps and soil maps. Then title work. Drone flights at golden hour. Walking fence lines in boots that needed replacing two listings ago.
Land does not sell itself. Because good land, sold well, requires a broker who has stood on it. Who knows where the creek runs in a wet year and where it does not. Someone who can tell you whether the neighbor’s lease is honored or only documented. A broker who will say plainly, this property is wrong for what you want, before you spend money finding out the hard way. That is the standard Ironhorse was built around. It is not a marketing line. It is the hiring standard, the listing standard, and the closing standard.
Eight months in, Ironhorse is licensed in twelve states. Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Agents are based in the markets they serve, because the broker who works your county should know your county. Koby continues to host the American Land Seller Podcast, putting him in conversation with landowners, attorneys, conservationists, and brokers from across the country. The work has compounded faster than anyone in Gothenburg had a right to expect.
On the Page: Ironhorse Land Company in The Land Report
This spring, The Land Report published its annual America’s Best Brokerages list in the Spring 2026 issue. Ironhorse is on it. Listed alongside firms that have been brokering land for thirty, forty, fifty years. The same magazine that landowners across the country have read for two decades. The magazine of record for American landowners.
We are not going to act like we expected this. We are going to act like we intend to deserve it.
The recognition does not change the work. The seller in western Kansas still needs an honest answer about her quarter section. The buyer in Wyoming still needs to understand the access. The agent in South Dakota still needs to make the next call. Tomorrow morning, somebody at Ironhorse will be walking a property they have an appointment to walk, watching the sun come up over a piece of ground that matters to somebody.
The recognition just means more people are watching now. That is fine with us.
What The Land Report America’s Best Brokerages Recognition Means for Ironhorse Land Company
We owe this to a lot of people. The sellers who trusted us with ground their grandfathers bought, and asked us to find the right next chapter for it. The buyers who picked up the phone when we called, walked the property alongside us, and closed on land they will pass to their own kids someday. The agents who bet on a brokerage nobody had heard of yet. The vendors, partners, and friends of the firm who helped us build something out of an idea and a Nebraska zip code. You took a chance on a name nobody had heard of yet. We plan to keep proving that was the right call.
To The Land Report, thank you for seeing us. We do not take it lightly.
And we are not finished.
We are barely past the beginning.
But one of America’s Best Brokerages in the first year? This is a hell of a start.
