Use case demo

Land acquisition pipeline

Select an upcoming sale, enrich the parcel with LMM soils and CDL crop acres, match LandHero comps, then decide the highest bid that still clears ROI.

Why this is hard

Available land, soil productivity, crop acres, and comps live in different systems.

ROI breaks fast when CSR2, tillable percentage, or comp distance are off by a little.

The acquisition team needs a bid ceiling before auction day, not a post-mortem.

Solution

LMM enriches the selected auction AOI with CDL crop acres, SSURGO CSR2, PLSS, and county context. LandHero comps then price only the sales that match productivity, tillable percentage, and distance.

LMM CDLLMM SSURGOLMM PLSSLMM parcelsLandHero comps

Interactive demo

Select an upcoming land sale

Poweshiek Co., IA - 146.27 Ac. | 06-16-2026 | 420th Ave. at 20th St., south of Grinnell, IA

Soils in AOI

Shelby

Shelby

88 CSR2
87.8 ac60.0% field

Adair

Adair

86 CSR2
43.9 ac30.0% field

Nodaway

Nodaway

82 CSR2
14.6 ac10.0% field

Selected property enrichment

Poweshiek County, IA

Seeded LMM snapshot

Total acres

146.27

Crop acres

128.7

CSR2

87.6

S-T-R

20-80N-16W

Township

Washington Township

County / state

Poweshiek County, IA

Bid ceiling

Likely auction price is above the ROI-supported ceiling.

$11,820/ac

3.0% ROI

Comp indication

$15,000/ac

$2,194,071

$/CSR2

$176/CSR2

Weighted comps

ROI spread

-$143,384

Over ceiling

LandHero comp match

3 comps
1

Poweshiek County

11-20-2025 | CSR2 87.2 | 9.4 mi away | 92% tillable

$19,250/ac

$228/CSR2

91% match

2

Poweshiek County

09-25-2025 | CSR2 86.1 | 14.1 mi away | 89% tillable

$12,800/ac

$162/CSR2

85% match

3

Poweshiek County

08-14-2025 | CSR2 86.1 | 18.3 mi away | 90% tillable

$13,800/ac

$163/CSR2

84% match