Why AgriTerra
Only AgriTerra compares four land uses in dollars per acre on the same parcel.
Farm income, cash rent, conservation, and solar or wind, side by side for your field. LandApp gives an index score for ag and no conservation; AcreValue estimates market value only; Acres does comparable sales only; the free extension tools cover neither solar nor conservation and are not products. The land-intelligence market splits into four camps that don't talk to each other, and none cleanly serve the one person staring at one parcel: the investor, the heir, or the landowner deciding what to do next.
AgriTerra Scout is the plain-language land report for that person.
| Tool | Price | Target user | What's missing for a curious landowner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acres.com | Free → $7.49/mo Acres+ → $94.99/mo Pro → Enterprise | Homebuilders, data centers, lenders, brokers | Pro tier runs many times an $89 Decision Report. Has soil and FEMA flood but no NREL solar scoring, and the product has pivoted away from individual ag users. |
| AcreValue | Free 3 reports/mo · Plus ~$36/mo · Premium ~$149/yr per state | Active farmers, lenders, and brokers (~400K users) | Farmer-first brand. No NREL solar irradiance and weak on combined FEMA flood overlay. Built for comp sales, not the "farm, lease, or conserve?" trade-off. |
| LandGate / LandApp | LandApp $6/mo · LandGate enterprise custom | Energy developers and landowners shopping solar/wind leases | Energy-side foreground; agronomy downplayed. Answers "what's the lease worth," not "what's the farm worth" or how to compare the two. |
| FBN AcreVision | Free with FBN membership | Active row-crop farmers only | Membership requires verified farmer status, which locks out heirs, single-parcel investors, and ag-curious landowners. |
| Free government tools Web Soil Survey · NREL SAM · FEMA NFHL · USGS National Map | $0 | Anyone willing to spend an afternoon on several federal websites | The data is real and free. The integration, plain-language interpretation, and parcel-level synthesis are not. |
| AgriTerra Scout | Free read · $89 Decision Report · $39/mo or $390/yr Land Scout (reports included) · $99/mo Land Scout Pro | Single-parcel investors, heirs, and landowners deciding what to do next | Independent plain-language synthesis of USDA + NREL + FEMA + USGS in one report. No farmer gate, no subscription required. |
- Price
- Free → $7.49/mo Acres+ → $94.99/mo Pro → Enterprise
- Target user
- Homebuilders, data centers, lenders, brokers
- What's missing for a curious landowner
- Pro tier runs many times an $89 Decision Report. Has soil and FEMA flood but no NREL solar scoring, and the product has pivoted away from individual ag users.
- Price
- Free 3 reports/mo · Plus ~$36/mo · Premium ~$149/yr per state
- Target user
- Active farmers, lenders, and brokers (~400K users)
- What's missing for a curious landowner
- Farmer-first brand. No NREL solar irradiance and weak on combined FEMA flood overlay. Built for comp sales, not the "farm, lease, or conserve?" trade-off.
- Price
- LandApp $6/mo · LandGate enterprise custom
- Target user
- Energy developers and landowners shopping solar/wind leases
- What's missing for a curious landowner
- Energy-side foreground; agronomy downplayed. Answers "what's the lease worth," not "what's the farm worth" or how to compare the two.
- Price
- Free with FBN membership
- Target user
- Active row-crop farmers only
- What's missing for a curious landowner
- Membership requires verified farmer status, which locks out heirs, single-parcel investors, and ag-curious landowners.
- Price
- $0
- Target user
- Anyone willing to spend an afternoon on several federal websites
- What's missing for a curious landowner
- The data is real and free. The integration, plain-language interpretation, and parcel-level synthesis are not.
- Price
- Free read · $89 Decision Report · $39/mo or $390/yr Land Scout (reports included) · $99/mo Land Scout Pro
- Target user
- Single-parcel investors, heirs, and landowners deciding what to do next
- What's missing for a curious landowner
- Independent plain-language synthesis of USDA + NREL + FEMA + USGS in one report. No farmer gate, no subscription required.
Pricing and positioning reflect publicly available information as of April 2026 and are summarized for comparison. Tool names are used nominatively; AgriTerra is not affiliated with any of the products listed.
Head to head
Comparing a specific tool?
Two of the most searched names in land data are AcreValue and AcreTrader. They are very different products, and one of them is not really a competitor at all. Each page below states plainly what that tool does well, where AgriTerra differs, and who should pick which. Every competitor fact is verified against their public site and dated.
AcreValue is a land value and comparable-sales tool. AgriTerra compares four ways a parcel can earn, with the source on every figure. An honest, dated comparison.
Read the comparisonAcreTrader is a farmland investing platform, a different product category. If you want to analyze a parcel you own or are buying, here is the honest explainer of the difference.
Read the comparisonBe honest about the data
Free government data is real. Integration is the work.
Every dataset behind a Scout report is publicly available from a federal agency. Anyone willing to spend an afternoon on several different government websites can pull the same raw inputs.
What AgriTerra sells is the integration, interpretation, packaging, time-savings, and credibility, not data access.
- Web Soil SurveyUSDA NRCS soil maps and SSURGO data, parcel by parcel.
- NREL Solar Resource MapsSolar irradiance and PV potential, county- and parcel-level.
- FEMA National Flood Hazard LayerFlood zones, base flood elevations, floodway boundaries.
- USGS National MapTopography, hydrography, water gauges, public-land surveys.
- NREL SAMSystem Advisor Model: energy production and economics, for users who can build their own model.
See what your parcel actually says.
Run a free analysis on any U.S. parcel: soil, solar, wind, water, and value benchmarks in seconds. Go deep with the $89 Decision Report when you're ready to decide.