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How AI Assessor values Alberta farmland
Updated October 2, 2026 · By Deep Budhiraja, founder of AI Assessor
In short: you type a legal land description. AI Assessor finds the quarter on the Alberta survey grid, fills in its county, Canada Land Inventory soil class and highway access, adds what you tell it about use, water and income, and returns a value range with the reasons. The model runs in your browser, and its level is calibrated to FCC's 2025 regional values.
The 30-second film runs one real quarter, NW-12-45-22-W4 in Camrose County, from the description to the estimate. Example estimate, September 2026.
The five steps
- Read the legal land description. A description such as NW-12-45-22-W4 names a quarter (NW), section (12), township (45), range (22) and meridian (west of the 4th, which is 110° W, the Saskatchewan border). That pins one 160-acre quarter on the Alberta Township System.
- Fill in what is public. The soil class comes from the Canada Land Inventory, looked up quarter by quarter. The rural municipality and the distance to a provincial highway come from Government of Alberta open data (municipal boundaries and highway rights-of-way).
- Add what only you know. Cultivated and pasture acres, crop, irrigation water rights and district, grazing and surface lease income, and anything unusual about the parcel.
- Estimate. A TensorFlow.js model running in your browser ranks the parcel against a typical parcel in the same FCC region. FCC's published reference value sets the market level: calibrated value per acre = FCC reference × (model value of this parcel ÷ model value of a typical parcel)0.6. The exponent keeps the spread close to the range FCC reports.
- Show the range and the reasons. You get a likely range, the factors that moved it, and a check against the range FCC reports for 90% of values in the region. Estimates far outside that range are flagged before they can be exported.
Data sources
| What | Source |
|---|---|
| Soil capability class | Canada Land Inventory (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada), matched to Alberta Township System quarter sections |
| Rural municipality | Government of Alberta municipal boundaries (Open Government Licence – Alberta) |
| Highway access | Government of Alberta provincial highway rights-of-way |
| Regional market level | FCC Farmland Values Report 2025 (March 2026), Alberta table |
| Use, water rights, leases | What you enter for the parcel |
What it does not do
- It is not an appraisal. When a lender, court or regulation requires one, you need a designated appraiser.
- It does not pull comparable sales. Alberta has no free public sales database, so the market level comes from FCC's regional values.
- It does not yet detect the irrigation district from the legal land description. You enter water rights yourself.
- It covers Alberta only.
Where your data goes
The valuation runs in your browser, so the details of the farm are not sent to a server to calculate the value. Soil and parcel lookups load public data files for the township. Your account, saved reports and payments are stored with our service providers (Supabase and Stripe). Farm data is not sold, shared with third parties or used to train outside models. See the privacy policy.
What it costs
Estimates are free and unlimited. The full report for one property, with the point value, land composition, factors and a PDF, is CA$49. Pro is CA$99 a month or CA$990 a year for unlimited reports with your name on the PDF. See the sales sheet.