Agriculture

Process crop insurance claims, verify lease boundaries, and map field locations — all using the legal land descriptions already on your paperwork.

Township Canada converts DLS descriptions to GPS coordinates instantly. For individual agronomists and adjusters doing single lookups, the Starter plan covers the basics. For operations processing hundreds of parcels at once, Pro and Business plans add batch conversion and export.

Which workflow fits your operation

Farmers — SCIC/AFSC filing, lease verification, day-to-day quarter section lookup.
Farmland investors — portfolio mapping, title reconciliation, acquisition pipeline screening.
Ag retailers and grain companies — territory mapping, agronomist routing, CRM enrichment.

The problems agriculture professionals run into

Crop insurance claims reference quarter sections, not GPS

AFSC (Alberta) and SCIC (Saskatchewan) process claims by quarter section. When a hail storm tracks across a township, adjusters need to know exactly which parcels fall inside the damage zone. The coverage records list NW 22-044-09W5, not 52.4231° N, 114.7812° W. Converting those descriptions to map coordinates — and doing it fast when there are 400 claims from a single storm event — is where the work piles up.

Lease agreements identify land by legal description only

A farmland lease contract lists parcels by DLS notation. Verifying that the leased land is the same field the tenant is actually working — not an adjacent quarter section with a similar-sounding description — requires converting the legal description to a map view and comparing it against what's on the ground. Transposed numbers in a legal description are common enough that the verification step matters.

Field crews need directions to unfamiliar parcels

Agronomists, soil samplers, and insurance adjusters cover a lot of ground in a day. Visiting SE 14-039-26W3 in the morning and NE 31-040-25W3 in the afternoon means navigating unmarked range roads and township roads between locations that don't show up in Google Maps. Without coordinates, finding the right field approach wastes time and sometimes means driving past the access gate.

Processing hundreds of parcels one at a time doesn't work

A portfolio of 200 leased parcels. A batch of 500 insurance applications after a late-season frost event. Entering each legal land description individually and copying out the coordinates takes hours. The descriptions need to go in as a list and come out with coordinates attached.

How Township Canada fits the agricultural workflow

Quarter section and LSD lookup

Enter any DLS description — quarter section, LSD, or full legal — and see the parcel on a map with GPS coordinates and boundary outlines. The result shows the parcel boundary overlaid on satellite imagery, so you can confirm the field shape matches what's expected before attaching coordinates to a claim or lease record.

Example: Enter NW 22-044-09W5 and see the 160-acre quarter section west of Sylvan Lake, Alberta, with its boundary drawn on the map and coordinates for the centre point and corners ready to copy.

More on finding parcels: Quarter section finder and Search guide.

Batch conversion for claims processing

Upload a CSV with a column of legal land descriptions — quarter sections, LSDs, or a mix of both. The batch converter returns GPS coordinates for every row, flags any descriptions that couldn't be parsed, and exports results in your preferred format.

Example: An AFSC adjuster uploads 450 quarter sections from hail damage claims filed after a June storm tracking northeast of Red Deer. The batch converter returns coordinates for all 450 in seconds. The adjuster exports to CSV, attaches it to the claims file, and dispatches field teams with coordinates already loaded.

Full walkthrough: Batch conversion guide.

Route planning for field visits

Enter legal land descriptions as stops in the route planner — no GPS coordinates required. The planner converts the descriptions, optimizes driving order for a day of soil sampling or crop inspections, and generates turn-by-turn directions that account for rural roads. Useful when you have eight parcels to visit across three townships and want the most efficient order before you leave the office.

More detail: Route planner guide and Directions guide.

Export for GIS and spreadsheets

Download converted locations as CSV for spreadsheet analysis, KML for Google Earth field verification, or Shapefile for GIS mapping. Attach accurate coordinates to lease records, insurance files, agronomic data, or precision ag platforms that expect GPS input. The export formats are the same regardless of whether you converted one parcel or five hundred.

Export options: Export guide.

Which plan fits your operation

Pro plan — for individual farmers, agronomists, and insurance adjusters who need unlimited searches, turn-by-turn directions to field locations, satellite imagery, saved place management, and PDF export. At $20/month, it covers the day-to-day lookup and verification work without a per-query limit.

Business plan — for crop insurance agencies, large agricultural operations, and teams with multiple adjusters working the same loss event. At $40/month, Business adds batch CSV upload, all export formats (Shapefile, CSV, KML, GeoJSON), and team management so adjusters share a single account without needing separate logins. The batch tool is only available on Business.

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Start converting field locations today

The Starter plan handles single-parcel lookups for occasional lease verification or a one-off insurance claim. For adjusters processing large claims batches or operations managing dozens of leased parcels across multiple townships, Pro or Business covers the volume.

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