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 use without an account.
Land-use comparison tool
Land-Use Optimizer
Rank every use of your acres — row crops, cash rent, CRP, solar, wind — by projected 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: given this specific dirt, which use actually pays most?
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.