diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 337a7c9a2e9..13973540900 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4926,6 +4926,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "prost-build",
  "protobuf-src",
  "snafu",
+ "substrait",
  "tokio",
  "tracing",
 ]
diff --git a/python/Cargo.lock b/python/Cargo.lock
index d26a1daf054..7f461c0348e 100644
--- a/python/Cargo.lock
+++ b/python/Cargo.lock
@@ -4070,6 +4070,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "prost",
  "prost-build",
  "snafu",
+ "substrait",
  "tokio",
  "tracing",
 ]
diff --git a/rust/lance-datafusion/Cargo.toml b/rust/lance-datafusion/Cargo.toml
index 36ea639e13d..2a79173c0c0 100644
--- a/rust/lance-datafusion/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rust/lance-datafusion/Cargo.toml
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ prost.workspace = true
 snafu.workspace = true
 tokio.workspace = true
 tracing.workspace = true
+# We only need this to pin the substrait version to 0.62.2 for now.
+substrait = {version = "=0.62.2", optional = true}
 
 [build-dependencies]
 prost-build.workspace = true
@@ -45,7 +47,7 @@ lance-datagen.workspace = true
 
 [features]
 geo = ["dep:lance-geo"]
-substrait = ["dep:datafusion-substrait"]
+substrait = ["dep:datafusion-substrait", "dep:substrait"]
 protoc = ["dep:protobuf-src"]
 
 [lints]