Center Pivot Irrigation Locations and Farm Infrastructure Data (2026)

A dealer assessing annual service revenue from one pivot can start with the grower’s repair budget: about $3,200 for a 135-acre electric-pivot installation in Nebraska Extension’s 2026 crop budget. Page 108 assigns $23.70 per acre to repairs across the pivot and its associated pumping installation: $23.70 x 135 = $3,199.50. The pivot system itself accounts for $7.41 x 135 = $1,000.35 of that allowance; the rest covers the pump, power unit and well. Dealer revenue depends on which work the grower hires out and which components the shop services.

The service department needs to know where those installations sit, which ones it can support and who approves the work. A county acreage total cannot assign next Tuesday’s route. Neither can a customer file that contains the growers who bought from you but misses equipment elsewhere in the territory.

Asset Search by PorchRocket finds visible farm infrastructure across an agreed area, from one county to the contiguous United States. Each accepted installation comes back with dated views and parcel and owner information attached, while every candidate, including a rejected structure or an obscured machine, receives a reviewed disposition that tells the branch what to do next. Build the territory around equipment your team can service, then put an account value beside each installation.

Which farm assets can you locate from above?

Center pivots, grain bins and poultry houses can be searched as separate asset classes, with counting rules that distinguish equipment units from sites and operating accounts.

I would start an irrigation campaign with pivot locations and leave unrelated buildings out of the first order. A grain-handling contractor needs a different specification. Combining everything under “farm leads” makes the receiving salesperson interpret the same property again.

Use this scope sheet to tell the search team what belongs in the file. The proposed counting units are buying instructions; your equipment specialist should approve the examples before the territory search starts.

Target	Proposed counting unit	Evidence to request	First sales decision
Center-pivot installation	One separately identified pivot point and associated machine	Dated view of equipment and field context	Does this installation belong in our service territory?
Linear irrigation candidate	One distinguishable installation	Equipment layout and field context	Should our irrigation specialist verify compatibility?
Grain storage bins	Individual visible bins, grouped under a storage-site identifier	Separate roof outlines and shared site view	Which storage sites merit a maintenance conversation?
Grain-handling structures	One site with its visible handling layout	Views showing the relationship between bins and structures	Which contractor or equipment specialist should review it?
Poultry-house candidates	Individual buildings grouped by farm site	Dated building views and surrounding context	Who should confirm use and purchasing responsibility?
Farm tank candidates	Individual visible tanks grouped by property	Dated tank and property views	Is a standard tank prospect list enough for the offer?

Keep the identifiers separate. Four bins at one storage site are four assets that may produce a single maintenance proposal, while four pivots spread across different parcels may belong to one operator whose installations can be covered in one account review. Your sales forecast needs an account count alongside the asset count.

Decide how to handle partial views before production. A structure cut by the image boundary should receive an unresolved answer if the available evidence cannot settle it. Reusing that rule across counties gives the branch managers comparable counts.

Who buys farm infrastructure data?

Irrigation dealers, grain-handling contractors and poultry equipment service firms buy location data to decide which installations deserve outreach, inspection or a place on a service route.

For an irrigation dealer, the first campaign might offer preseason service to operators outside the current customer book. The equipment manager sets eligibility around the shop’s supported systems and technicians, with an outer boundary based on how long dispatch can send a truck away from its other commitments during the busiest part of the season. Sales then works the operating accounts behind those locations.

A bin contractor can organize storage sites around the work the crew performs. An aeration-service offer requires different qualification from a storage-expansion proposal. Ask for the visible installation first, then obtain equipment specifications and the owner’s intended work during qualification.

Poultry equipment firms need the farm site and the person who authorizes service. A building location gives the sales team a place to begin that conversation. Record approved vendors and access requirements when the operator provides them, before dispatch.

Aftermarket managers can use the same inventory to identify installations beyond registered equipment. The installed-base mapping guide covers that territory question. For branch managers, the distributor account growth guide connects equipment coverage to account assignments and share of service spending.

Fuel and tank service teams may have a narrower job. Ground Control by PorchRocket offers a self-serve route for matching commercial properties with visible storage tanks. A custom search fits when the buyer needs agricultural asset definitions, every candidate disposition or an inventory across equipment classes.

Name the receiving role in the order. “Send this to the irrigation service manager for route planning” produces a more focused file than “send sales some agricultural data.” Agree on what happens to the first accepted record before ordering the next county.

What USDA data tells an irrigation dealer

USDA NASS supplies market totals and production context, while a dealer still needs separate research to locate installations and identify the people responsible for service.

The 2023 Irrigation and Water Management Survey highlights, released in October 2024, report 212,714 irrigating farms and 53.1 million irrigated acres. Keep the survey year beside those figures when using them in a 2026 territory plan. Irrigating farms and center-pivot machines are different counting units.

The Census of Agriculture program runs every five years and publishes aggregated information rather than individual farm responses. Use its county data to compare markets and choose where to investigate. Build the equipment and contact file through a separate search.

Public source	Question it can inform	Additional work for a dealer territory file
Census of Agriculture	Which counties have the agricultural activity we want to serve?	Locate installations and identify operators
Irrigation and Water Management Survey	How do irrigation methods and expenditures differ across reported areas?	Confirm the equipment at each candidate location
Grain Stocks reporting	How much grain and storage capacity are reported?	Distinguish individual bins, storage sites and purchasing accounts
Historical irrigation mapping	Where was irrigation interpreted in the mapped period?	Check present equipment, removals and ownership

NASS’s Grain Stocks survey explanation describes stock estimates and storage capacity, including on-farm and off-farm reporting. Capacity totals can inform market selection. They do not furnish a service-ready row for each bin, and respondent details remain confidential.

Check boundaries and reference years first. When agricultural statistics differ sharply from the searched inventory, I would check whether the figures describe the same area and counting unit before asking the branch to investigate a gap that could come from comparing farm counts with machine counts. Keep both definitions beside the comparison.

How to find center pivot irrigation locations

Locate the visible pivot equipment, check the surrounding irrigation signatures, and retain the observation date before joining a candidate to its parcel and operator research.

The method has a public research basis. USGS Data Series 932 describes mapping irrigated areas in the mid-Atlantic region from observed equipment and field signatures, including visible arms and wheel paths. The 2015 study used imagery from 2010 through 2013. Its historical coverage makes the image date part of the evidence you need to evaluate.

Start with the machine. A circular crop pattern can help locate a candidate, but the reviewed record should explain what equipment was visible and what remained uncertain. Keep an old field pattern separate from a current observation of a pivot installation.

For a custom search, set rules with your irrigation specialist around these decisions:

• Whether a visible machine is required for an accepted pivot location.
• How to classify a partial-circle installation or a machine near the territory boundary.
• How to handle several irrigation patterns associated with one apparent machine.
• Which observation would require a current operator check before a sales visit.

Asset Search cross-references aerial and satellite views with property records and public datasets. Its recall-first search goes beyond existing directories, looking across brands for installations that are unlisted or newly built. People review every candidate before the file ships.

Reviewing several dates can separate an installation observed in both views from one newly visible in the later view. Record that interval. Ask for the installation record or equipment plate when the next decision depends on manufacture year or component compatibility.

For the wider workflow, the asset inventory from aerial imagery guide explains how to specify the search and hand the reviewed file to the team using it.

Grain bin locations and poultry house locations

Count bins and poultry-house candidates at both the structure and site levels, then qualify the equipment and operating account against the work your crew sells.

For grain bins, specify whether the assignment includes small feed-storage candidates, larger storage clusters or both. Require a separate asset identifier for each resolved structure. A site with six accepted bins should remain one grouped location for the first owner conversation.

Mark grain-handling features separately when the view supports them. The estimator needs to distinguish a count of storage structures from an assessment of the work involved. Use the first call to obtain the operator’s equipment list and agree on an inspection scope.

Oklahoma State University Extension’s preharvest preparation guidance calls for inspecting handling equipment and testing aeration fans. It recommends arranging repairs before the equipment is needed at harvest. Use that inspection scope to write an offer the operator can schedule before the storage equipment is needed.

Poultry-house detection also has published research behind it. A December 2021 poultry-mapping paper describes detecting individual barns from aerial imagery and evaluating predictions against held-out location data. It supports searching for visible structures; current use and service authority still belong in the operator qualification fields.

For a poultry campaign, I would have the buyer label accepted and rejected building examples before the search. Long agricultural buildings can create interpretation questions. Leave a candidate unresolved when the evidence cannot establish the agreed asset type, and name the check needed to decide.

Ask the grower how to arrange access. USDA APHIS guidance updated in September 2026 advises limiting visitors and following the farm’s biosecurity routine. Put the appointment and entry instructions in the service record before scheduling the visit.

The fields a dealer territory file needs

A dealer-ready inventory links each asset and site to dated evidence and owner information, with an explicit next action for every reviewed candidate.

Keep ownership and operation separate. Nebraska Extension’s discussion of tenant-owned pivots describes an arrangement where a landowner owns permanent underground fixtures and the tenant owns removable above-ground equipment. Repair responsibilities follow that division in the example. A parcel owner is therefore a starting contact to qualify.

I would use the following fields in the pilot import. With Asset Search, you receive owner information attached to evidence for each located installation; keep the operator and service approver in separate columns so the salesperson can confirm purchasing responsibility without overwriting the recorded owner when the grower identifies a different person.

Field	What belongs in it	How the branch uses it
Asset ID and site ID	A separate equipment identifier linked to its site	Count units without duplicating the visit
Asset class and observed count	The reviewed target type and resolved structures	Assign the right equipment specialist
Location and parcel	Coordinates, parcel reference and site location	Find the installation and research ownership
Evidence date	Capture date attached to each supporting view	Decide whether another check is needed
Recorded owner	Owner information and its record reference	Start the purchasing-role research
Operator and service approver	Separately researched or call-confirmed roles	Route the conversation to the person buying work
Disposition and reason	Fits, rejects or unresolved, with the deciding observation	Assign outreach, exclusion or verification
Branch and next action	Territory assignment, task and due date	Give one salesperson responsibility

Ask for decision-maker contact where it applies. Record a missing role as missing, with the next research task attached. A named property owner and a confirmed service approver answer different questions in the account record.

Keep one operator linked to all confirmed sites. The sales team can then ask for one account review covering several installations, while dispatch retains a separate location for each visit. The propane tank location data guide addresses a similar distinction between an asset location and the account behind it.

How much is one accepted farm site worth?

Value a farm prospect through the gross profit from work you can win and deliver, including repeat service, retention and the number of eligible units per account.

Use this planning model for a dealership serving electric-pivot installations around Kearney, Nebraska. The search accepts 240 pivot locations, grouped into 120 operating accounts after qualification. Holdings vary by account; the territory averages two pivots per account. Two accounts sign, each placing four eligible pivots with the shop. Annual dealer revenue is $1,480 per serviced pivot, with a 38% gross margin after delivery costs, including parts and technician time in the field and on the road. Assume 88% annual account retention over five years, with all four pivots retained when an account renews. Revenue and margin stay constant, service begins in year one, and future gross profit is undiscounted.

Budget 56 staff hours to review the delivery and work the campaign through signed proposals. Use an all-in acquisition cost of $47 per hour, covering staff time, allocated sales overhead and qualification travel costs. That is $2,632 in acquisition effort, with no separate advertising or sales commission assumed. Let Q represent the total quoted search cost, including the pilot payment and the remaining balance after its credit. Substitute your service book’s figures before buying the territory.

Customer lifetime value, or CLV, is the gross profit an account produces over its retained life. The model counts the full first year and weights each later year by the chance that the account remains:

• Annual gross profit per pivot: $1,480 x 38% = $562.40.
• Five-year retention factor: 1 + 0.88 + 0.88 squared + 0.88 cubed + 0.88 to the fourth power = 3.93556736.
• Five-year gross profit per serviced pivot: $562.40 x 3.93556736 = $2,213.36, rounded.
• Four-pivot account value: 4 x $562.40 x 3.93556736 = $8,853.45, rounded.

Carry full precision through the calculations, then round displayed money to cents. The narrative rounds larger totals to whole dollars.

Two such accounts produce approximately $17,707 in five-year gross profit before acquisition spending. The model includes no replacement sale or controls-upgrade project. Its value comes from eight serviced units and retained annual work.

Keep project work separate. For a bin contractor, calculate the authorized project amount times the expected job margin, then apply the chance of winning when valuing an unconverted prospect. Count a later project when the account’s plan supports it.

Use the lead-list ROI calculator to compare acquisition spending with the account value. Gross profit belongs above the cost comparison; top-line service revenue overstates what the campaign can repay.

Low, base and high outcomes for a pivot service campaign

The same 240 accepted locations produce about $4,427 to $33,200 in five-year gross profit when account wins and serviced units change under the stated model.

Hold unit economics and retention constant. Change the number of signed accounts and the eligible pivots each account places with the dealership. If the branch knows its annual service spending but has never measured how many machines a new account places with the shop, use the pilot calls to establish that figure before choosing the base case for a territory expansion.

Campaign outcome	Low	Base	High
Qualified operating accounts approached	120	120	120
New operating accounts won	1	2	3
Eligible pivots per new account	2	4	5
Total pivots placed under service	2	8	15
First-year service revenue	$2,960	$11,840	$22,200
Five-year gross profit before acquisition	$4,426.73	$17,706.90	$33,200.45
Expected gross profit per accepted location across all 240	$18.44	$73.78	$138.34

The per-location value spreads campaign gross profit over every accepted location, including those that never buy. In the base case, two wins among 120 operating accounts equal about 1.7%. Use that denominator when comparing the campaign with past account acquisition.

Customer acquisition cost, or CAC, is all acquisition spending divided by accounts won. Base-case CAC is (Q + $2,632) / 2. Lead-list ROI is ($17,706.90 - Q - $2,632) / (Q + $2,632) over the modeled five years.

I would set the buying rule before approving the scope: total acquisition spending must fit the low case, and the base case must meet the dealership’s chosen CLV:CAC hurdle. A 3:1 hurdle means modeled lifetime gross profit must be at least three times acquisition spending. Choose that as a management requirement, then compare the quote with it.

Check cash timing too. The four-pivot account produces $2,249.60 in first-year gross profit, equivalent to $187.47 per month. CAC payback months equal CAC / ($2,249.60 / 12), using the unrounded monthly amount. This is a first-year run-rate measure; the five-year value calculation separately accounts for attrition. Annual service invoices can make cash receipts uneven, so put the expected billing dates beside the payback calculation.

Better fit and shorter drives change the same sales budget

Targeting can double signed accounts in the 56-hour campaign model by moving time from wrong-fit research into qualified conversations and scheduled assessments.

The comparison below keeps acquisition hours fixed within the same planning model. By starting from reviewed equipment locations grouped into operating accounts, the targeted campaign leaves more of its 56 hours for assessments and proposal work than the broad campaign, which spends time establishing whether landholder records belong in an equipment-service campaign. Both approach 120 account records. Assume the broad campaign starts with an existing landholder file at no new purchase cost; both campaigns use the same $47 all-in hourly acquisition cost. The targeted search adds Q.

Use of the sales budget	Broad landholder campaign	Reviewed equipment campaign
Research and outbound work	40 hours	28 hours
Assessments, proposals and follow-up	16 hours	28 hours
Total staff hours	56	56
Substantive conversations	12	30
Qualified assessments	6	12
Proposals	4	8
Signed accounts at 25% of proposals	1	2

The broad funnel assumes a 10% conversation rate, followed by 50% reaching assessment, two-thirds reaching proposal and 25% signing. The reviewed-equipment funnel assumes a 25% conversation rate, followed by 40% reaching assessment, two-thirds reaching proposal and the same 25% signing. Overall account conversion rises from 1 / 120 to 2 / 120, about 0.83% to 1.67%.

The research purchase earns its place when the pilot shows that the team can shift those hours. Measure time per qualified account and the number of proposals it produces. A higher record count alone does not support the extra win in this comparison.

Route density changes the delivery margin as well. Suppose 48 annual service visits average 74 travel minutes each when scattered and 38 minutes when grouped. The difference is 36 minutes x 48 / 60 = 28.8 truck hours. At an assumed $68 per truck hour, that releases $1,958.40 of annual capacity.

Use the route density calculator to test drive-time assumptions against the branch’s territory. Offer scheduled service windows in a cluster that the shop can support. A faraway account needs enough work to carry its travel burden.

The service margin above already includes travel. Record the route improvement separately until you have recalculated that margin; adding both would count the same benefit twice.

How to build a farm infrastructure list, step by step

Build the first territory in eight steps, from an equipment-specific offer to a pilot import and a measured month of account outreach.

1. Choose one service offer in week one. Define the installation your technicians can support and the work you want to sell. Set the accepted asset type and the qualification questions for a preseason service or storage-maintenance conversation.
2. Draw the operating boundary. Give the search a county set or territory polygon, plus branch exclusions. Separate scheduled-service coverage from emergency-response coverage so the sales file matches the promise dispatch can keep.
3. Submit the farm scope to Asset Search. Use the agricultural asset search form to request pivots, grain bins or poultry houses. Specify the counting unit, dated evidence and owner fields. Ask for a small paid pilot credited toward the full order, with fits, rejects and unresolved candidates returned.
4. Approve examples with your equipment specialist. Mark accepted sites and difficult exclusions together. Write down the rule for a removed machine, an obscured structure and an installation crossing the boundary before reviewing the wider territory.
5. Check the pilot against a reference area. Supply known installations and inspect a separate sample for omissions. Resolve disagreements against the evidence and rule, then revise the specification where needed.
6. Load and assign the records in week two. Test CSV, Excel or the agreed dealer-system import. Group confirmed operators, assign one branch owner per account and attach the field check to each unresolved record.
7. Work a small account batch during weeks three and four. Ask who approves service and which installations belong in the review. Book assessments around a route window, obtain access instructions and track proposal work against the 56-hour budget.
8. Decide the next scope from campaign results. Count qualified accounts, proposals and signed work. Recalculate value per accepted location and acquisition cost before adding counties or setting a recurring refresh.

Put a date and a responsible person beside each step. The search specialist owns the evidence question; the service manager owns technical eligibility; the salesperson owns the next account action. Keep those decisions visible in the same site record.

Testing a pilot before you order the territory

Judge the pilot against written acceptance rules and an independently checked area, including missed installations as well as incorrectly accepted candidates.

An attractive sample of delivered matches answers only part of the buying question. Ask the service manager to choose a reference area with known equipment, then check a separate patch without relying on the supplied candidate list. Compare what the search found with what the agreed evidence supports.

Record four counts: accepted candidates that satisfy the rule, accepted candidates that fail it, unresolved candidates, and eligible installations found during the independent check that the search missed. Keep the review area and inspection dates attached. A precision percentage from delivered positives cannot by itself establish territory coverage.

Counted twice is also an error. Check a multi-bin site and an operator linked to several pivot locations. The branch needs correct asset quantities without duplicate account outreach. Test those relationships in the import before accepting the file structure.

I would include a small decision log with the pilot review:

• Accept: a visible installation meets the written rule and has dated evidence.
• Reject: the candidate fails a named rule, with the reason retained.
• Resolve in the field: one named observation would settle the classification.
• Rework the specification: buyer and reviewer interpreted a boundary or asset definition differently.

Asset Search returns every disposition. A rejected candidate stays in the record so the next salesperson can see why an installation was excluded without repeating the investigation, while an unresolved candidate carries the question a field specialist needs to answer during a planned visit. Assign that check.

Ask how the search rule changes after a disagreement. A corrected example should inform the remaining territory review and any affected records already delivered. That is easier to assess in a pilot containing difficult sites than in a handpicked set of obvious equipment.

When to refresh pivots, bins and poultry sites

Use quarterly territory reviews and an annual service-planning edition as a starting cadence, then match additional monitoring to decisions the branch can act on.

Those intervals are a proposed operating schedule. A service manager preparing next season’s routes may need an annual edition, while a branch expanding into several counties can review changes quarterly. Choose the schedule around the work assignment and available evidence.

University of Georgia Extension’s pivot preparation bulletin, fully reviewed in July 2026, covers preseason checks of pivot components, including tires and gearboxes. Link that kind of defined service scope to your outreach calendar. The field inspection establishes which work the installation requires.

Keep an installation’s observation history. When a pivot appears in the later view but is absent from the earlier usable view, return both dates with the observation so the branch knows the interval to investigate when asking the operator about installation history and service records. Confirm equipment age through records when age determines the proposed work.

Asset Search can watch territories and send reviewed changes with before-and-after dates. Cadences include annual, quarterly, monthly or weekly refreshes. Near-real-time alerts fit decisions requiring faster action where daily satellite coverage exists; a dealer territory book usually needs a less frequent edition.

Recheck specifications as well as pictures. If your shop begins supporting another equipment type or accepts a different refurbishment scope, previously rejected sites may qualify. Asset Search can re-answer sites already searched when requirements change, often using existing evidence.

Retain the earlier disposition alongside the revision. The branch can then distinguish a newly observed asset from a site that became eligible because its service offering changed. Those are different reasons to contact an operator.

Choosing the search scope and commercial terms

Choose per accepted result terms for an initial farm territory inventory, with a paid pilot and written rules defining what the branch will accept.

Asset Search pricing follows the investigation and buying decision. Available terms include per completed investigation, per accepted result, a monitoring subscription or success-based terms tied to an agreed outcome. Most buyers start with a small paid pilot credited toward the full order.

For a dealer’s first territory, I would agree on accepted installations and the evidence package before expanding. Count eligibility under the written search rule separately from eventual sales conversion. A correctly identified installation can belong in the file even if the operator stays with the current service provider.

Scope the territory alongside the delivery requirements. The quote should state how the asset definitions will be applied across the search area and what evidence the branch will receive for a difficult candidate, so the pilot can test both the investigation and the handoff to the dealer system. Specify what owner or contact research applies.

An ongoing change watch fits a subscription when the sales manager has a recurring assignment for new or altered sites. Use a one-time search when the decision is to fill a territory book and the branch can maintain account qualifications through its own calls.

The self-serve option for a commercial tank campaign

For the fastest start on a commercial storage-tank prospect list, Ground Control by PorchRocket finds matching properties by area and visible tanks for $10 to $20 per building. The file arrives within 48 hours after payment, and a wrong match receives a credit within 30 days. Every property says why it matched; owner and decision-maker research are add-ons. These are target properties for your team to approach. Use the storage-tank lists page for that standard campaign, and Asset Search for a custom inventory of pivots, bins or poultry houses.

Keep the two jobs distinct in the order. A commercial tank campaign needs a property list matched to the offer. A farm equipment territory needs agreed counting rules and reviewed asset dispositions across the searched area.

Putting your farm territory into Asset Search

Asset Search locates the farm installations your team defines and joins dated evidence to property records, returning a reviewed decision for every candidate across the agreed territory.

Start with the farm infrastructure request: tell us what to find and where in a two-minute form. We return a scope and quote, then ship the paid pilot in your format. The search combines aerial and satellite imagery with property records and public datasets. Your equipment experts help set the rules, people review every candidate, and the delivery includes fits, rejects with reasons, and unresolved sites with the field check needed to decide. The pilot is credited toward the full order.

For an agricultural territory, the order can include:

• A defined county set or dealer boundary, with separate rules for pivots, bins and poultry-house candidates.
• Asset and site counts tied to dated views and the observations supporting each classification.
• Location, parcel and owner information, with decision-maker contact where it applies.
• Every reviewed disposition, including exclusions and unresolved candidates with their next check.
• CSV, Excel, GIS-ready files or an import organized for the receiving dealer team.
• A refresh schedule or revised-specification review that keeps the territory aligned with the work your shop accepts.

Tell us what to find. Give your service manager the installations to work and your sales team the accounts behind them.