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Bradford Technologies

Founded in 1987, Bradford Technologies is headquartered in the Silicon Valley, home of the high tech industry. With its easy access to high technology personnel and close ties to the Silicon Valley, Bradford Technologies is well positioned to fulfill its commitment of providing high tech solutions and quality service to the appraisal industry.

American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers

The ASFMRA is the premier professional organization for professionals who provide management, consultation, and valuation services on rural and agricultural assets. The ASFMRA, founded in 1929, provides members with the resources, information, and leadership that enable them to provide valuable services to the agricultural community. The focus of the ASFMRA is providing education and networking opportunities for a professional group of members providing farm and ranch management, rural and real property appraising, review appraisal, and agricultural consulting services to the private and public sectors and to the governmental and lending communities.

Farmer Mac

Farmer Mac is America's secondary market for first mortgage agricultural real estate loans. Farmer Mac was created by Congress to improve the availability of mortgage credit to America's farmers, ranchers and rural homeowners, businesses and communities. Farmer Mac does this primarily by purchasing qualified loans from lenders, thereby replenishing their source of funds to make new loans.

The Appraisal Foundation

Through this site you can learn about the Foundation and follow the work of the Appraiser Qualifications Board and the Appraisal Standards Board. Proposed changes to the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice are available for review and comment.

The Appraisal Institute

Educating real estate appraisers for over 60 years, the Appraisal Institute is the acknowledged leader in residential and commercial appraisal education, research, publishing, and professional membership designation programs.

Surety Online Mapping

Locate the correct field, the first time, every time.

AgriData, Inc.’s Online Mapping System, Surety®, is a leader for providing Internet mapping solutions. The Surety® system integrates FSA field borders, aerial imagery, NCRS soils survey, and USGS topography maps into one easy-to-use online system. By using the friendly drawing tool or selecting a field border you can create custom maps or reports in minutes. Surety® allows the user to custom color code a soils survey and prints a professional report every time.

Web Soil Survey

Web Soil Survey (WSS) provides soil data and information produced by the National Cooperative Soil Survey. It is operated by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and provides access to the largest natural resource information system in the world. NRCS has soil maps and data available online for more than 95 percent of the nation’s counties and anticipates having 100 percent in the near future. The site is updated and maintained online as the single authoritative source of soil survey information.

Applied Soil Geography

Robert (Bob) D Nielsen, Certified Professional Soil Scientist, offers the following products and services:

Johnson Mapping Software

Johnson Mapping Software is your source for the Deed Plotter+ and All Topo Maps software applications, plus an 8 hour Continuing Education seminar that deals with better understand the language of legal descriptions. The Deed Plotter+ software draws a plot of legal descriptions, calculates size and closure. The All Topo Maps are digital topo maps that come on CDs by State sets, therefore they are mobile, NO need to be connected to the internet. You direct the All Top Maps to create "custom" topo maps up to 77 miles on a side and it has an optional tool to work directly with the Deed Plotter. You can plot your subject and sales with the Deed Plotter, then import and locate them on the topo map. Or, you can free hand draw parcels directly on the topo map. The All Topo Maps can work "real time" with your GPS. Plot you subject and comps on topo map, then drive around and see where you are on the map in relation to your comps.

Land Voyage Mapping Software

Land Voyage, located in Loveland, Colorado, is a leading provider of Internet mapping solutions. Land Voyage was developed by LandNet Corporation beginning in 1999 and has served more than 5 million users over the Internet to date. LandVoyage has developed an unparalleled mapping system with aerial photos, USGS topographic maps, satellite images, aeronautical charts and more of anywhere in the United States. Their website offers an online subscription service, which includes access to the entire mapping library as well as patented drawing/measuring tools and advanced searching methods.  It can leverage its unsurpassed expertise to offer superior custom consulting and enterprise solutions.