Farmland analysis
Indiana Farmland Analysis
Soil quality, USDA cash-rent benchmarks, and solar, wind, and CRP income for any Indiana parcel, free, from 6 federal data sources.
AgriTerra Scout is a free tool for analyzing Indiana farmland. Search an address or tap your parcel on the map and Scout reads its soil capability, USDA county cash-rent benchmarks, modeled solar and wind income, water and flood exposure, and conservation-program eligibility, all from 6 federal data sources, with the source and date on every number.
What Scout shows you in Indiana
- Soil capability: NRCS SSURGO soil class, drainage, and productivity for the parcel. See how to read a soil survey and the soil productivity index.
- Cash rent: USDA NASS county cash-rent benchmarks (low / midpoint / high).
- Solar & wind income: modeled from NREL PVWatts for solar and AgriTerra wind resource buckets over NREL/WINDExchange 100 m wind maps, as planning bands rather than developer offers. See the solar leasing guide and wind leasing guide.
- CRP: USDA FSA conservation rental rates on acres the soil data flags as likely eligible. See how CRP works and CRP rates by state.
- Water & flood: USGS water data and the FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer.
- Wetlands: USFWS National Wetlands Inventory classifications. See wetlands on your land and hydric soils.
Indiana farmland at a glance
Indiana runs a classic corn-and-soybean rotation on strong central-till-plain soils, with more topographic and drainage variation than Illinois to its west. It is one of two states where AgriTerra has pre-loaded parcel boundaries, so you can tap your exact parcel rather than drawing it.
Indiana farms grow corn and soybeans, with wheat in the south, and its cropland is strong, above the national average, with real county-to-county spread. Because that value swings by county and soil, Scout reports the USDA benchmark for the exact parcel you look at rather than a statewide average. See what farmland produces and what it earns, or the county-by-county breakdown of what crops grow in Indiana.
Analyzing a Indiana parcel
Indiana is one of the first states with pre-loaded parcel boundaries, so you can tap your exact parcel on the satellite map and get its measured acreage back automatically.
Once the parcel is set, Scout pulls every layer in parallel and lays the results out as a plain-language comparison (keep farming, cash-rent, enroll in CRP, or lease for solar or wind), each with a per-acre figure and the source behind it. See the land-use optimizer for how the ranking works, check the Indiana cash rent county table, compare a developer offer with the farm vs. solar vs. CRP tool, or farmland analysis in other states.
Indiana farmland by county
Every Indiana county with its own data page below, each carrying that county's USDA NASS cash rent, reported crops, CRP context, and a free parcel-level read. The figure shown is the latest reported county cash rent per acre.
- Adams USD 217/ac
- Allen USD 200/ac
- Bartholomew USD 205/ac
- Benton USD 327/ac
- Blackford USD 251/ac
- Boone USD 268/ac
- Brown USD 136/ac
- Carroll USD 289/ac
- Cass USD 239/ac
- Clark USD 129/ac
- Clay USD 213/ac
- Clinton USD 288/ac
- Crawford USD 115/ac
- Daviess USD 245/ac
- De Kalb USD 152/ac
- Dearborn USD 162/ac
- Decatur USD 240/ac
- Delaware USD 214/ac
- Dubois USD 166/ac
- Elkhart USD 201/ac
- Fayette USD 254/ac
- Fountain USD 273/ac
- Franklin USD 165/ac
- Fulton USD 228/ac
- Gibson USD 224/ac
- Grant USD 198/ac
- Greene USD 175/ac
- Hamilton USD 259/ac
- Hancock USD 250/ac
- Harrison USD 159/ac
- Hendricks USD 226/ac
- Henry USD 220/ac
- Howard USD 279/ac
- Huntington USD 208/ac
- Jackson USD 199/ac
- Jasper USD 243/ac
- Jay USD 218/ac
- Jefferson USD 157/ac
- Jennings USD 215/ac
- Johnson USD 247/ac
- Knox USD 213/ac
- Kosciusko USD 196/ac
- La Porte USD 215/ac
- Lagrange USD 174/ac
- Lake USD 192/ac
- Lawrence USD 157/ac
- Madison USD 222/ac
- Marion USD 189/ac
- Marshall USD 228/ac
- Martin USD 197/ac
- Miami USD 220/ac
- Monroe USD 130/ac
- Montgomery USD 267/ac
- Morgan USD 207/ac
- Newton USD 247/ac
- Noble USD 182/ac
- Ohio USD 90/ac
- Orange USD 217/ac
- Owen USD 168/ac
- Parke USD 220/ac
- Perry USD 125/ac
- Pike USD 187/ac
- Porter USD 207/ac
- Posey USD 235/ac
- Pulaski USD 224/ac
- Putnam USD 212/ac
- Randolph USD 185/ac
- Ripley USD 170/ac
- Rush USD 252/ac
- Scott USD 146/ac
- Shelby USD 236/ac
- Spencer USD 183/ac
- St. Joseph USD 190/ac
- Starke USD 170/ac
- Steuben USD 156/ac
- Sullivan USD 203/ac
- Switzerland USD 136/ac
- Tippecanoe USD 265/ac
- Tipton USD 280/ac
- Union USD 238/ac
- Vanderburgh USD 208/ac
- Vermillion USD 248/ac
- Vigo USD 239/ac
- Wabash USD 205/ac
- Warren USD 287/ac
- Warrick USD 193/ac
- Washington USD 144/ac
- Wayne USD 208/ac
- Wells USD 250/ac
- White USD 236/ac
- Whitley USD 217/ac
Floyd County is not shown yet: USDA NASS reports too little for that county (a single year of cash rent and no county crop acreage) to build an honest page. It will be added when more data is reported.
Evaluate Indiana land for a living?
Lenders, farm managers, appraisers and land agents working Indiana ground use Land Scout Pro for white-label reports under their own brand, client folders, and a multi-parcel portfolio view across every parcel they handle.
Indiana farmland: frequently asked questions
- Does AgriTerra work for Indiana farmland?
- Yes. The federal data layers behind Scout (USDA soils and cash rent, NREL solar and wind, FEMA flood, USGS water, USFWS wetlands) are nationwide, so any Indiana parcel can be analyzed for free. Indiana is one of the first states with pre-loaded parcel boundaries, so you can tap your exact parcel on the satellite map and get its measured acreage back automatically.
- What is Indiana farmland worth?
- Indiana cropland is strong, above the national average, with real county-to-county spread. Rather than quote a single statewide figure, Scout reports USDA NASS county cash-rent benchmarks for the specific parcel you look at: the low, midpoint, and high for that county, because value in Indiana varies far more by county and soil than any state average captures.
- What grows on Indiana farmland?
- Indiana farms grow corn and soybeans, with wheat in the south. Indiana runs a classic corn-and-soybean rotation on strong central-till-plain soils, with more topographic and drainage variation than Illinois to its west. It is one of two states where AgriTerra has pre-loaded parcel boundaries, so you can tap your exact parcel rather than drawing it.
- Do I need an account to analyze a Indiana parcel?
- No. You can search a Indiana address, pick the parcel, and see soil and cash rent with no account. Running the solar, wind, and CRP comparison is free with a free account, 3 a month. An account or purchase only comes up for the full $89 Decision Report.
See what your Indiana acres could earn.
Run the free analysis on any Indiana parcel: soil, cash rent, and the solar/wind/CRP comparison, each with its source, in under a minute.
Free to start. The full Decision Report is $89.