9 layers · Water plan
Agricultural water rights, and what backs them this year
Know what your water is worth, how safe it is this year, and what your neighbors hold.
For most operations the agricultural water rights attached to the ground are worth more than the ground. Knowing your seniority relative to the neighbors, and what storage and snowpack are behind it this season, is the difference between planning and hoping.
Built for: Farm and ranch owners, agricultural lenders, farmland funds, and appraisers.
Why agricultural water rights goes wrong today
In the West, agricultural land value is mostly water value, and most owners have never seen their right in the context of the basin around it. Lenders and appraisers face the same gap on a much larger book.
What agricultural water rights has to answer
- How senior is my right compared with everyone else on this stretch?
- How likely is curtailment this year given snowpack and storage?
- What is my water actually worth if I sold or leased it?
- Which neighboring rights are junior to mine, and which are senior?
- Is the groundwater under this property declining?
The agricultural water rights workflow
- 1
Locate the right and its neighbors
Find the right by owner or location and see every other right on the same reach with its priority date, so the call order is explicit instead of folklore.
- 2
Read this year's risk
SNOTEL snowpack against median, reservoir storage, stream gauges and the county drought classification together give an early and honest read on curtailment risk.
- 3
Check the aquifer
Groundwater well depth and water-level records show whether the aquifer under the property is holding or declining — the trend that drives future pumping cost and future restrictions.
- 4
Value the position
Compare against rights of similar seniority and use in the same basin to understand what the water contributes to the value of the land.
The 9 layers this depends on
Each links to its source, refresh cadence and field list.
Water
Environmental
Capabilities agricultural water rights uses
Every capability is described in detail on the platform overview.
Recommended plan: Water
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Everything in this workflow is in the water pack, and the free tier is enough to confirm your own right exists before you decide whether the rest is worth paying for.