Land Advisory Services
Enhance, Conserve, and Protect Your Land

Pinion offers strategic guidance, facilitation, and advisory services for land and water improvements, conservation, USDA programs, right-of-way mitigation, conservation easements and credits, and renewable energy projects.

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Land is a Vital Asset for Your Business

It grows crops, sustains livestock, cleans water, supports biodiversity, and provides opportunity. It is the heart of all operations for food and agriculture businesses.

Pinion’s team of advisors and land experts will help you protect, improve, and sustain your land.

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Drive Your Business Forward

When you work with Pinion, you gain access to a leading advisory firm that will help you increase your profits, secure more opportunities, and encourage the conservation and protection of agricultural land.

Bridge the Gap

Pinion advisors are unbiased, third-party experts who protect and ensure the best interests of both landowners and developers.

Streamline and Simplify

Pinion advisors guide clients through asset improvement projects, ensuring quality, leveraging our deep understanding of conservation and USDA programs, mitigating risk, and simplifying the process while prioritizing long-term sustainability and profitability.

“Take care of the land and the land will take care of you.”

-Keith Alverson, sixth-generation South Dakota farmer and National Corn Growers Association member

Serving Every Key Land Sector

When you work with us, you receive a timely and thorough industry standard cost estimate, innovative design solutions, and comprehensive project management, tailored to your specific land and water improvement needs.

  • Expert consultation
  • Professional engineers & design
  • Project facilitation
  • Manage to completion

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Individual Landowners, Farmers, and Ranchers

Maximize your investment with the actionable data you need to make decisions, explore opportunities, and protect your land.

Agricultural Contractors

Tap into a specialized team with the technical knowledge to serve as back-office support or to move your project forward.

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Institutional Agricultural Investors

Overcome time constraints, lack of actionable information, and communication barriers to achieve the results you need with dedicated agricultural industry experts.

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Farm and Ranch Managers

Minimize your time with additional manpower and resources that deliver the results.

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Right-of-Way Developers and EPCs – Renewable Energy, etc.

Engage qualified third-party land advisors to ensure proper agricultural mitigation, appropriate project costing, and alignment with state and local regulations.

Services for Farmers, Ranchers, and Landowners

Protect and Invest in Your Land

A turnkey approach to land advisory services, conservation, and USDA programs.

Pinion makes the process simple for farm managers, operators, and individual landowners — allowing you to spend more time in the field and with your customers. Our advisors have the experience and insight you need to secure new opportunities, from conservation and USDA program efforts to improving the profitability, farmability, and growth of your land.

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Seamless Project Facilitation

  • Work with an agriculturally focused consulting and design team
  • Select from a full suite of USDA program, conservation, and land improvement options
  • Receive support in navigating stakeholder relationships, including neighboring landowners and other interested parties
  • Save time and resources

Conservation and USDA Program Support

  • Meet energy efficiency requirements
  • Improve drainage and irrigation
  • Explore renewable energy (wind, solar, etc.) and other right-of-way opportunities with a trusted expert
  • Ensure proper agricultural mitigation during right of way and renewable energy projects (wind, solar, etc.)
  • Management strategies for conservation and nutrient management
  • Habitat mitigation and wetland credits
  • Conservation easements

Comprehensive Risk Mitigation

  • Ensure due diligence before land acquisition or purchase
  • Receive field analyses and property evaluations to identify problems and challenges
  • Improve your soil and water through proper surface and subsurface drainage and irrigation solutions
  • Connect with third-party advisors for additional support

Valuable Insights

Recent Land, Conservation, and USDA Program Resources

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Trade disputes, funding cuts, and delays in tax reform and the farm bill are negatively impacting U.S. agriculture. Each area will have both short- and

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Are you feeling it? The shift in purchasing power. The drive for transparency. The growing passion for food’s journey. While it’s true that climate change

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Services for fiduciaries, developers, investors, and contractors

 

Improve Land Integrity and Long-Term Equity

Pinion offers comprehensive and thorough agricultural land advisory for fiduciaries, developers, investors, and contractors.

We simplify processes, clear installation paths, and increase efficiency to help move your land project forward.

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Mitigate Risks

Mitigate the risks associated with farmland capital improvements, including surface and subsurface drainage and irrigation.

Satisfy Landowners

Work with ag experts who can bridge the gap and forge connections with farmers and landowners.

Streamline Projects

Pinion’s turnkey approach means you have one single source for all of your needs — eliminating the need for multiple service providers.

Alleviate Workloads

We provide technical and specialized expertise to ensure all engineering and design work meets your specifications.

“For farmers and ranchers, protecting key agricultural lands with conservation easements strengthens the natural resource base and thus the entire operation, but easements have generational transfer and great tax benefits too.”

-Mary Hollow, Prickly Pear Ranch

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Land Advisory – Conservation and USDA Programs

Achieve Stewardship and Economic Benefits with Strategic Advisory

Pinion’s Conservation and USDA Program consultants are experts in their field and can help you consider what programs and practices are in your best interest.

Our advisors assess conservation opportunities and program eligibility, while assisting with program application support, organization structure, and ongoing program alignment.

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For Developers and EPCs with Agricultural Right-of-Way Concerns:

This includes agricultural mitigation, community engagement, renewable energy projects, habitat mitigation and wetland conservation, and pairing you with landowners seeking economic opportunities.

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For Farmers, Ranchers, and Landowners:

Our experts can provide guidance to optimize conservation, USDA programs, and conservation easements and credits, as well as help you protect your property rights and the value of your land.

    • Wildlife habitats
    • Wetlands
    • Renewable energy opportunities
    • Ensuring proper right-of-way mitigation
    • Conservation easements and credits

Right-of-Way Diversification

 

Enhancing Revenue Diversification Through Right-of-Way Projects

Farmers, ranchers, and landowners are seeing new revenue opportunities emerge in the form of wind, solar, fiber, pipeline, and other farm easements.

These renewable energy prospects help diversify income and improve profits; however, many are concerned about the long-term effects of these projects on their land and drainage systems.

Pinion understands your goals, challenges, and industry, and alleviates concerns by finding the right:

    • Financial terms for your market area
    • Land value protections
    • Developer partner
    • Economic viability for the project
    • Agricultural infrastructure mitigation (drain tile, surface drainage, irrigation, and other existing Infrastructure)

Discover your land opportunities

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90+ Years Supporting the Food & Agriculture Industry

As the nation’s leading advisory and accounting firm dedicated to the food and agriculture industry — we know your business because many of us grew up on farms and are actively involved in our own farms and ranches.

Pinion works with people just like you — producers, input suppliers, processors, packagers, distributors, biofuel manufacturers, equipment dealerships, landowners, lenders, and many agencies and policy organizations — to positively impact the future of farming and food production around the world.

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Discover what Pinion can do for you:

Expertise Wherever You Need It

A holistic approach to optimal results.

Pinion is dedicated to your business and your success. We navigate the barriers, complexities, and business challenges that stand in your way, cultivating your long-term growth and helping you achieve new opportunities.

Accounting & Back Office Solutions

Capture accurate accounting data and advisory and alleviate compliance and back office challenges so that you can tend to what matters most.

Tax Compliance & Strategy

Specialists in understanding market challenges, tax law, and tax compliance needs. 

Food & Ag Consulting

Our ag-focused advisors take a holistic view of your business to forecast and capture opportunities, mitigate challenges, & drive your food & ag business forward.

Succession Planning

Navigate tough business decisions, family discussions, and entity transitions. Expert estate and gift tax knowledge, trust guidance, long-term goal setting and risk management.

Financial Strategy

Strategic analysis and guidance to navigate transaction deals, satisfy stakeholder needs, and make long-term decisions.

Sustainability

Sustainability tools, solutions, and expert consulting for the food value chain. Customized to meet your sustainability goals.

  • Develop a program and data plan
  • Measure performance
  • Program targets and execution
  • GHG accounting
  • Scope 1, 2, 3 reporting
  • Risk assessments

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Theodore “Quint” Shambaugh V

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Protect Your Greatest Asset

Receive expert land guidance to sustain, protect, and improve the profitability of your agricultural land.

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Quint Shambaugh, Lead Advisor – Land, Conservation, Renewable Energy