Sample report

A full report, nothing left out.

This is the full report for 160 acres of corn and soybean ground in the Corn Belt, exactly as a customer receives it, plus the letter to the tenant and a pasture report from the central Great Plains. These are test farms, chosen only for being typical. Your report is built the same way for your own ground.

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Report page 1: fair rent range, target and the three methods
Page 1

The answer first

A fair rent range of $295–$315 an acre with a target of $305, the main reasons in plain English, and how three methods line up: local rents, what a tenant can afford, and what land like this earns on its value.

Report page 2: soils, crop history and satellite record
Page 2

The farm itself

Every soil on the farm and how productive it is against the county. Nine years of what was grown. And the satellite record: this farm beat nearby fields of the same crop in 8 of the last 9 years.

Report page 3: aerial weak-spot map, tenant budget and flexible lease
Page 3

From above, and from the tenant's side

The aerial photo with the weak spots marked, what a tenant can afford at next year's prices and costs, and a flexible lease with a guaranteed base and a bonus in good years. Where a farm floods, the report shows that month by month too.

Report page 4: other uses for weak acres, notice deadlines and questions for the tenant
Page 4

Options and deadlines

Other ways the weakest acres might earn more, each with its catch, when notice is due in your state, and the questions worth asking your tenant.

Report page 5: sources
Page 5

Sources

Every source behind every number, and how the local rent and land value figures were worked out.

First page of a sample pasture report
Pasture

Pasture, priced by the acre

For pasture ground the report works from USDA's pasture rents for the county and its neighbors, nine grazing seasons of satellite images compared with nearby pasture, and a land value check. It adds what that comes to per cow-calf pair per month, a pasture lease checklist (stocking limits, fences, water, fertility, brush) and the thin spots on an aerial photo. A farm that's part crop, part pasture gets both, plus the total.

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Sample letter from landowner to tenant proposing next year's rent
Included

The letter to your tenant

A friendly, plain letter proposing the new rent and the flexible option, with the topics worth talking over. Fill in the highlighted parts and send it, or use it as notes for a phone call.

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