Township Canada for Farmland Investors
Farmland investors and asset managers work with portfolios — sometimes a dozen quarters, sometimes a few thousand — held across multiple municipalities, lease arrangements, and operators. The legal land descriptions on every title, lease, and deal sheet are the only identifier that ties everything together. Township Canada turns those descriptions into maps and coordinates so portfolio-scale work — acquisition pipeline screening, title verification, lease reconciliation — runs without manual one-at-a-time lookups.
For investor-scale workflows, batch conversion and the API are usually what gets used most. Business plans cover the batch and export side; API plans cover programmatic enrichment into internal CRMs, ERP systems, and reporting databases.
What farmland investors use it for
Acquisition pipeline mapping
A deal sheet lists 60 quarters across three RMs in central Saskatchewan and the Westlock area in Alberta. Before underwriting work begins, the portfolio needs to be plotted: are the parcels contiguous, scattered, or in clusters? What proportion sit in each soil zone? Which are exposed to flood risk along major waterways? Upload the legal descriptions to the batch converter, export as CSV with coordinates and boundary polygons, and load into GIS or a mapping spreadsheet in minutes — not the half-day it takes to convert manually.
Title verification against deal paperwork
A purchase agreement lists NE 14-032-21 W3M and the title abstract lists NE 14-32-21 W3. Same parcel, different formatting. Multiply that across 60 quarters and the manual reconciliation gets error-prone. Batch conversion normalizes formats and confirms each description resolves to the parcel the deal documents reference.
Lease portfolio reconciliation
Investor-held farmland is typically operator-leased. Annual lease renewals require checking that every parcel under contract — sometimes across 4 or 5 operators — still maps to the land the investor owns. A CSV of leased parcels and a CSV of owned parcels, both run through batch conversion, surface mismatches: parcels billed but not owned, parcels owned but not under lease, and descriptions where the formatting differs between contract and title.
Portfolio-level export to GIS and reporting
The export formats — CSV, KML, GeoJSON, Shapefile — cover the downstream tools investors actually use. Asset reporting dashboards consume CSV; GIS analysts pull Shapefile or GeoJSON; field visit prep teams use KML in Google Earth. A single batch conversion produces all four formats from one upload.
The portfolio workflow
Deal screen. New deal sheet arrives. Run the parcels through batch conversion. Plot in a mapping tool to assess contiguity, road access, and proximity to existing portfolio holdings.
Underwriting. Pull soil-zone and productivity data against the converted coordinates. Cross-reference flood maps, transportation corridors, and any known infrastructure planning that could affect future use.
Closing. Final title verification batch run. Confirm every closing document references a description that resolves to the intended parcel.
Hold period. Annual lease reconciliation. Year-end portfolio mapping for investor reporting and valuation.
Disposition. Build the marketing package with current maps, neighbouring landowner data (from public records), and parcel-by-parcel descriptions normalized for the buyer's diligence.
What investors get from Business and API plans
Business plan — batch CSV upload (no per-row limit on Business), all export formats, team management for diligence teams and asset managers, PDF and KML output for investor reporting.
API access — programmatic conversion for internal systems. Pricing tiers from $20/month (Build, 1,000 requests) up to enterprise volumes. Most investor-scale portfolios fit in the $50–$100/month band. See API pricing.
PRODUCT TEAM: When the Ag Bundle Investor tier launches in Stripe, it should bundle the data layers planned in the Ag Bundle PRD (parcel reports, land values panel, territory tool) with batch + API quotas. This page should highlight the Investor tier features once that SKU is live. Current copy intentionally avoids referencing tier features that don't ship yet.
Related resources
- Batch Conversion of Legal Land Descriptions
- Convert Snowflake Tables to Legal Land Descriptions
- Land Manager Workflow with Google Sheets Add-on
- Integrate Legal Land Description API for Internal Tools
See a portfolio on the map
Upload a CSV of legal land descriptions. Get GPS coordinates, boundary polygons, and a map view back. Export to the format your downstream tools expect.