Ohio Farmland Analysis

What Scout shows you in Ohio

• 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: the USDA NASS county cash-rent average (the published figure), with a soil-adjusted range AgriTerra models from the parcel's soils.
• 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: whether the soil data flags acres as likely eligible, and the program's status: new CRP enrollment is paused, so Scout shows no CRP rate. 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.

Ohio farmland at a glance

Ohio spans productive northwestern lake-plain ground, rolling glaciated till in the center, and the unglaciated southeast, so soil capability and value vary widely across the state. It was the first state AgriTerra loaded parcel boundaries for. Tap a parcel on the map and its acreage, soils, and cash-rent benchmarks come back for that exact tract.

Ohio farms grow corn, soybeans, and wheat, and its cropland is moderate to strong, with a wide north-south range in soil quality. 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 Ohio.

Analyzing a Ohio parcel

Ohio 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 (CRP shows its status instead while new enrollment is paused). See the land-use optimizer for how the ranking works, check the Ohio cash rent county table, compare a developer offer with the farm vs. solar vs. CRP tool, or farmland analysis in other states.