Energy, Agriculture, and Combined Parcel Reports: one quarter section, three ways to read it

Search a quarter section on Township Canada and the report opens with three tabs: an Overview, an Agriculture tab, and an Energy tab. One PDF button turns whatever you can see into a document you can attach to a file, email to a client, or bring to a negotiation.

Which of those tabs are unlocked depends on the bundle you carry. That gives you three distinct deliverables from the same search box: an Agriculture Parcel Report, an Energy Parcel Report, and, when you hold both bundles, a Combined Parcel Report. This post walks through what each one contains, where the numbers come from, and which report fits which job.

The Agriculture Parcel Report

The Agriculture Parcel Report answers a single question an appraiser, lender, or farmland investor asks first: how productive is this land, and what is holding it back?

It opens with the Productivity Score, a 0-100 composite built on the federal Land Suitability Rating System, the Canada Land Inventory capability class, a five-year crop-diversity index, and a current drought modifier. Below the score sits the parcel's full agronomic profile: soil order, group, and subgroup, drainage and slope, the single limiter capping the score, the five-year crop rotation with its dominant crop, and the current Canadian Drought Monitor status.

The score is Alberta-first, computed directly from AGRASID 4.1 where it exists: more than 380,000 Alberta quarter sections already carry an LSRS productivity score. Outside Alberta the soil context still travels with you through the Soil Landscapes of Canada fallback, and crop history is available across the Prairies. The full method, including every weight and every known limitation, is published in the Productivity Score methodology.

Get it with: the Agriculture Bundle, $50 CAD/month on top of Pro or Business.

The Energy Parcel Report

The Energy Parcel Report is the analyst's view of the same ground. It answers what is on and under the parcel, who is responsible for it, and what is about to change.

For any Legal Subdivision it lists the wells individually, with UWI, operator, product, and current lifecycle status (active, suspended, abandoned, reclaimed, and the orphan flag where the Orphan Well Association has taken over closure). It shows the pipeline segments crossing the quarter, the licensed facilities sitting on it, and the Crown petroleum-and-natural-gas and mineral dispositions that overlap the LSD, with the days remaining until each one expires. Every well links through to the operator's full footprint across the AER inventory.

The data behind it is the full Alberta energy stack: more than 530,000 AER wells, over 320,000 licensed pipeline segments, and more than 120,000 facilities sorted into eight plain-English categories. The operator directory covers the AER's entire business-associate registry of more than 3,000 companies, and the tenure layer carries 63,000-plus Crown PNG dispositions alongside close to 2,000 mineral agreements. A timestamp on the report tells you exactly when each source last refreshed, drawn from the AER and Petrinex.

Get it with: the Energy Bundle, $50 CAD/month on top of Pro or Business.

The Combined Parcel Report

Hold both bundles and the parcel report becomes the document neither half can produce alone. The Overview tab stops being a summary of two separate things and starts connecting them: a parcel can be top-tier cropland that also hosts an active well and a pipeline crossing, and the surface-rights or crop-damage conversation has to reflect both. The PDF carries the agriculture sections and the energy sections in one file.

That single document is the deliverable for any cross-domain conversation: a surface-rights negotiation, a farmland appraisal on land with energy activity, or an acquisition where both the agronomy and the liability matter.

Which report do you need?

Each bundle stacks on a Pro ($20) or Business ($40) plan and can be cancelled any time. Already on Pro or Business? You get one free parcel report, so you can run the exact report you would be buying on a quarter section you actually care about.

Try it

The fastest way to understand the three reports is to pull one. Open the parcel report on a quarter section you know, or paste a legal land description into the search box. To learn the surface that holds all three, see the guide to the parcel report sidebar.

Add the Agriculture Bundle, the Energy Bundle, or both from your account or the pricing page.

Related

• Introducing the Agriculture Bundle
• Introducing the Energy Bundle
• The Parcel Report Sidebar guide
• Map Layers guide
• Productivity Score methodology