Six focused tools that turn federal soil, price, energy, and program data into a decision about your land: what to grow, what to charge, what you qualify for, and whether to farm, lease, or conserve. Every one is free to start; a free account runs the Optimizer comparison and saving comes with Land Scout.
Land-use comparison tool
Land-Use Optimizer
Compare every use of your acres, row crops, cash rent, CRP, solar, wind, by modeled return.
Put five ways to use the same parcel side by side (keep farming it, cash-rent it out, enroll marginal acres in CRP, lease it for solar, or host wind), each with a projected per-acre return built from federal cost, price, and energy data. It answers the question the other tools only touch: on this specific dirt, how does each use compare, in dollars per acre?
Model per-acre seed, fertilizer, and operating costs against revenue and breakeven.
Build a per-acre crop budget for any U.S. parcel (seed, fertilizer, chemicals, and operations on the cost side, projected yield and price on the revenue side) and see net return and breakeven before you commit the input bill. A sensitivity table shows how that number moves as price and yield swing.
Track every lease payment and check the rent against USDA county benchmarks.
Keep each farmland lease (its term, its rent, and every payment) in one ledger instead of a shoebox, then measure the rent against USDA NASS county cash-rent benchmarks so you know whether you are above or below the county line. Built for the landowner or farm manager running several leases, not a spreadsheet.
See which USDA conservation and commodity programs your parcel likely qualifies for.
Check a parcel against the major USDA programs (CRP, EQIP, CSP, and ACEP-ALE on the conservation side, ARC-CO and PLC on the commodity side) using the parcel’s own NRCS soil data to flag likely eligibility. It is a starting read that tells you which programs are worth a call to your county FSA office, not an enrollment decision.
Compare farming, a solar lease, and CRP on 5-year income, capital, reversibility, and risk.
Got a solar-lease offer and no easy way to weigh it against just farming or enrolling in CRP? This lays all three next to each other (five-year income, capital required, how reversible the choice is, and the headline risk of each) so the decision is a comparison, not a guess. It is the plain-English front end to the same math the optimizer runs.
One plain-language read on a parcel’s soil, value, water, flood risk, and market context.
Pull a full read on a single parcel (property snapshot, soil and productivity, regulatory and tax context, energy and infrastructure, ag value, market context, and the risks and trade-offs) assembled from the federal datasets and parcel records into one page. It is the due-diligence brief you would otherwise stitch together from six government websites.