County cash rents for farmland, 2026
USDA NASS county estimates, dollars per acre, with 2021 for reference.
Every county cash rent NASS published for 2026
Check before you rely on a figure: the NASS input values are reproduced as NASS prints them in the field excerpts, with each record's LOAD_TIME (when NASS inserted it into Quick Stats); calculated figures and unit conversions are labeled "ours". Verify any figure in NASS Quick Stats or the NASS report before acting on it.
Our count: NASS publishes 5,004 county cash rent rows for 2026 in 49 states: 2,403 non-irrigated cropland, 700 irrigated cropland and 1,901 pasture, including combined "other counties" rows.
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| County | Ag district | 2026 rent | CV_% | 2021 rent | Change (ours) | NASS fields |
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What NASS's codes and columns mean
D Withheld to avoid disclosing data for individual operations.
S Insufficient number of reports to establish an estimate.
NA Not available.
Published data value or suppression reason code.
Ratio of the standard error to the estimate, expressed as a percent.
A concatenation of six columns: commodity_desc, class_desc, prodn_practice_desc, util_practice_desc, statisticcat_desc, and unit_desc.
Date and time indicating when record was inserted into Quick Stats database.
Our take written by Farming Land Sale
NASS publishes 5,004 county cash rent rows for 2026 across 49 states: 2,403 for non-irrigated cropland, 700 for irrigated cropland and 1,901 for pasture, some of them combined other-counties rows. Ohio's line in the state summary shows 76 named counties with a non-irrigated cropland rent and a median of $167.5 by our calculation.
District and county rents must reconcile to NASS's previously published state rent for each category. The rents stay at the county level here: NASS's land value estimates are published for the United States and by state, so the site computes no county rent-to-value ratio.
Our reading of the USDA figures on this page. It adds no facts of its own and isn't advice about any parcel, lease or sale.
Check before you rely on a figure: the NASS input values are reproduced as NASS prints them in the field excerpts, with each record's LOAD_TIME (when NASS inserted it into Quick Stats); calculated figures and unit conversions are labeled "ours". Verify any figure in NASS Quick Stats or the NASS report before acting on it.
County rents by state, 2026
| State | All published rows, incl. combined counties | Non-irrigated: named counties | median (ours) | range | Pasture: named counties | median (ours) | range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 126 | 59 | $46 | $14.5–$139 | 59 | $26 | $11–$45.5 |
| Arizona | 11 | 5 | $3.1 | $1–$4.1 | |||
| Arkansas | 146 | 61 | $30 | $13–$169 | 55 | $22 | $8.4–$37.5 |
| California | 102 | 20 | $34.75 | $22–$67.5 | 38 | $17.5 | $5.5–$42 |
| Colorado | 99 | 24 | $29.75 | $6.3–$47.5 | 42 | $7.45 | $2.8–$23.5 |
| Connecticut | 9 | 6 | $83 | $56–$152 | |||
| Delaware | 5 | 3 | $106 | $102–$119 | |||
| Florida | 58 | 21 | $43.5 | $22–$107 | 29 | $21 | $7.6–$58 |
| Georgia | 205 | 105 | $58 | $16.5–$142 | 58 | $35 | $16–$69.5 |
| Hawaii | 7 | 1 | $14 | $14–$14 | |||
| Idaho | 81 | 18 | $51.75 | $22.5–$89 | 27 | $16.5 | $9.2–$50 |
| Illinois | 141 | 86 | $254 | $86.5–$347 | 43 | $50 | $25–$88.5 |
| Indiana | 140 | 89 | $217 | $127–$303 | 34 | $56 | $28–$124 |
| Iowa | 198 | 99 | $266 | $167–$336 | 88 | $65.25 | $41–$91 |
| Kansas | 232 | 102 | $58 | $29.5–$193 | 99 | $24 | $10–$49 |
| Kentucky | 158 | 86 | $124.5 | $17–$259 | 68 | $38.25 | $13.5–$59.5 |
| Louisiana | 112 | 46 | $55.5 | $14–$143 | 42 | $26.25 | $8.6–$46 |
| Maine | 13 | 10 | $50.5 | $24–$108 | |||
| Maryland | 34 | 21 | $117 | $28–$191 | 7 | $42 | $21–$87 |
| Massachusetts | 21 | 11 | $77.5 | $37.5–$141 | |||
| Michigan | 96 | 71 | $98.5 | $17.5–$239 | 4 | $55 | $30–$81 |
| Minnesota | 151 | 81 | $189 | $18.5–$280 | 50 | $39 | $13–$70 |
| Mississippi | 147 | 71 | $66.5 | $11–$172 | 53 | $21 | $11–$32.5 |
| Missouri | 221 | 109 | $117 | $16–$247 | 104 | $39.75 | $12–$65.5 |
| Montana | 120 | 40 | $30.5 | $18.5–$45.5 | 48 | $9.8 | $4.4–$29 |
| Nebraska | 232 | 80 | $141 | $23.5–$289 | 71 | $40.5 | $11.5–$80 |
| Nevada | 7 | ||||||
| New Hampshire | 6 | 3 | $66 | $41–$71 | |||
| New Jersey | 19 | 10 | $84 | $34.5–$129 | |||
| New Mexico | 32 | 3 | $19 | $11–$27.5 | 16 | $3 | $1.5–$8.8 |
| New York | 68 | 47 | $73 | $38–$146 | 16 | $22.25 | $13.5–$127 |
| North Carolina | 148 | 86 | $81.25 | $33–$182 | 51 | $34.5 | $15–$58.5 |
| North Dakota | 112 | 53 | $64.5 | $29.5–$163 | 50 | $23 | $11.5–$46 |
| Ohio | 105 | 76 | $167.5 | $26.5–$256 | 26 | $31.5 | $14.5–$95.5 |
| Oklahoma | 164 | 74 | $30.5 | $13–$52 | 77 | $18.5 | $10–$38.5 |
| Oregon | 66 | 15 | $99.5 | $33–$181 | 25 | $21 | $4–$128 |
| Pennsylvania | 81 | 61 | $68 | $15–$289 | 15 | $33 | $18–$103 |
| Rhode Island | 3 | ||||||
| South Carolina | 70 | 38 | $39.5 | $15–$74.5 | 22 | $24 | $12–$34 |
| South Dakota | 142 | 63 | $112 | $23.5–$252 | 63 | $47 | $10–$66 |
| Tennessee | 179 | 88 | $65 | $20–$196 | 84 | $28.25 | $12–$55.5 |
| Texas | 459 | 190 | $27 | $9.5–$83.5 | 223 | $11 | $1.1–$30.5 |
| Utah | 54 | 10 | $34 | $12–$58.5 | 17 | $6.4 | $1.2–$26.5 |
| Vermont | 18 | 10 | $59 | $40–$90 | 5 | $26 | $15–$41 |
| Virginia | 147 | 86 | $46.5 | $20–$112 | 57 | $27 | $15–$53 |
| Washington | 56 | 25 | $70.5 | $29.5–$256 | 14 | $10.3 | $1.9–$82.5 |
| West Virginia | 57 | 30 | $30.25 | $12–$103 | 25 | $15 | $3.1–$36.5 |
| Wisconsin | 106 | 68 | $136 | $16–$247 | 24 | $42 | $22.5–$76 |
| Wyoming | 40 | 4 | $31.25 | $27.5–$40 | 18 | $8 | $4–$15 |
Reading a county rent
District and county mean rates must reconcile to a previously published state mean cash rental rate for each category.
Beginning with the 2021 estimate year, model-based county-level estimates were incorporated into the NASS estimation process for county-level rates.
These county-level estimates were benchmarked against state-level official estimates established by the ASB.
Land rented for a share of the crop, on a fee per head, per pound of gain, by animal unit month (AUM), rented free of charge, or land that includes buildings such as barns are excluded from the survey.
NASS defined county groups, unique within a state, 2-digit ag statistics district code.
includes 998 for OTHER (COMBINED) COUNTIES
Estimates are published for the United States and by State, except Alaska and Hawaii, and include the value per acre of all farm real estate, cropland, and pasture.
County rents stay at the county: NASS's land value estimates are published for the United States and by state, so this site has no county land values and never divides a county rent by a state land value. The rent-to-value calculator works at the state, region and U.S. level, where NASS publishes both.
Method note How these figures are built
Data dates: the 2026 land values and 2026 state, region and U.S. cash rents carry LOAD_TIME 2026-07-31 (Released July 31, 2026, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)
source); the 2026 county cash rents carry LOAD_TIME 2026-08-21. Records for earlier years have their own LOAD_TIME, shown in their field excerpts; LOAD_TIME is when NASS inserted the record into Quick Stats, not the year the figure describes. Verify any figure in NASS Quick Stats or the NASS report before you rely on it.
The NASS inputs are VALUE fields from the Quick Stats file qs.economics_20261017.txt.gz, shown as NASS prints them, in dollars per acre unless a column says otherwise; calculated figures and unit conversions (such as totals shown in millions) are labeled as ours. Our checker re-read all 23,311 records in NASS's current file on October 19 and matched the state, region and U.S. land values to the tables of the Land Values 2026 Summary. Percent changes, ratios, shares and counts are our calculations, labeled "ours". Nothing is adjusted for inflation. Full method →
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