Farmland analysis
Ohio Farmland Analysis
Soil quality, USDA cash-rent benchmarks, and solar, wind, and CRP income for any Ohio parcel, free, from 6 federal data sources.
AgriTerra Scout is a free tool for analyzing Ohio 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 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: 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.
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. 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.
Ohio farmland by county
Every Ohio 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 144/ac
- Allen USD 229/ac
- Ashland USD 128/ac
- Ashtabula USD 57/ac
- Athens USD 47/ac
- Auglaize USD 228/ac
- Belmont USD 24/ac
- Brown USD 163/ac
- Butler USD 158/ac
- Carroll USD 59/ac
- Champaign USD 204/ac
- Clark USD 235/ac
- Clermont USD 132/ac
- Clinton USD 180/ac
- Columbiana USD 91/ac
- Coshocton USD 96/ac
- Crawford USD 204/ac
- Darke USD 287/ac
- Defiance USD 165/ac
- Delaware USD 197/ac
- Erie USD 186/ac
- Fairfield USD 173/ac
- Fayette USD 237/ac
- Franklin USD 209/ac
- Fulton USD 209/ac
- Gallia USD 69/ac
- Geauga USD 62/ac
- Greene USD 223/ac
- Guernsey USD 52/ac
- Hamilton USD 167/ac
- Hancock USD 210/ac
- Hardin USD 238/ac
- Harrison USD 44/ac
- Henry USD 200/ac
- Highland USD 181/ac
- Hocking USD 101/ac
- Holmes USD 119/ac
- Huron USD 190/ac
- Jackson USD 65/ac
- Jefferson USD 38/ac
- Knox USD 149/ac
- Lake USD 116/ac
- Lawrence USD 60/ac
- Licking USD 134/ac
- Logan USD 209/ac
- Lorain USD 141/ac
- Lucas USD 179/ac
- Madison USD 240/ac
- Mahoning USD 91/ac
- Marion USD 195/ac
- Medina USD 108/ac
- Meigs USD 55/ac
- Mercer USD 280/ac
- Miami USD 198/ac
- Monroe USD 27/ac
- Montgomery USD 198/ac
- Morgan USD 55/ac
- Morrow USD 180/ac
- Muskingum USD 100/ac
- Noble USD 58/ac
- Ottawa USD 185/ac
- Paulding USD 188/ac
- Perry USD 94/ac
- Pickaway USD 218/ac
- Pike USD 137/ac
- Portage USD 86/ac
- Preble USD 225/ac
- Putnam USD 172/ac
- Richland USD 171/ac
- Ross USD 165/ac
- Sandusky USD 197/ac
- Scioto USD 97/ac
- Seneca USD 182/ac
- Shelby USD 259/ac
- Stark USD 89/ac
- Summit USD 89/ac
- Trumbull USD 88/ac
- Tuscarawas USD 111/ac
- Union USD 190/ac
- Van Wert USD 232/ac
- Vinton USD 56/ac
- Warren USD 150/ac
- Washington USD 67/ac
- Wayne USD 179/ac
- Williams USD 194/ac
- Wood USD 198/ac
- Wyandot USD 210/ac
Cuyahoga 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 Ohio land for a living?
Lenders, farm managers, appraisers and land agents working Ohio 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.
Ohio farmland: frequently asked questions
- Does AgriTerra work for Ohio 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 Ohio parcel can be analyzed for free. 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.
- What is Ohio farmland worth?
- Ohio cropland is moderate to strong, with a wide north-south range in soil quality. 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 Ohio varies far more by county and soil than any state average captures.
- What grows on Ohio farmland?
- Ohio farms grow corn, soybeans, and wheat. 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.
- Do I need an account to analyze a Ohio parcel?
- No. You can search a Ohio 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 Ohio acres could earn.
Run the free analysis on any Ohio 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.