United States · USDA NASS 2025

Cash rents

Highest · cropland

$274.00/ac

Iowa state avg

Median state

$82.50/ac

cropland · 46 states

Lowest · cropland

$16.00/ac

Wyoming state avg

States

with published rents

Counties

2,909

with published rents

USDA’s 2025 survey puts the highest state-average cropland rent in Iowa at $274/acre and the lowest in Wyoming at $16/acre; the median state sits at $82.5/acre. USDA surveys cash rents every year, county by county — each state page carries the county figures for cropland, irrigated ground, and pasture, and every county with published data has its own page. Own ground? Run your parcel — the county rate adjusted for your soil and your measured tillable acres, free.

States · cropland $/ac · state avgHover to inspect · click to open

165076100148274

$/ac cropland · quantile classes

Hover a state · cropland $/ac

All states · 48 rows

#	State	Cropland ↓	Irrigated	Pasture	NCCPI
1	Iowa	274.00	267.00	65.00	0.760
2	Illinois	264.00	272.00	49.00	0.700
3	Indiana	225.00	274.00	53.50	0.640
4	Minnesota	199.00	224.00	34.50	0.610
5	Hawaii	190.00	443.00	12.00	—
6	Ohio	184.00	212.00	31.00	0.560
7	Kentucky	166.00	209.00	35.00	0.470
7	Nebraska	166.00	286.00	28.50	0.500
9	Wisconsin	161.00	259.00	45.00	0.490
10	Missouri	148.00	212.00	38.50	0.540
11	Michigan	143.00	260.00	35.00	0.460
12	South Dakota	136.00	226.00	31.00	0.450
13	Maryland	120.00	227.00	59.00	0.500
14	Tennessee	115.00	189.00	26.00	0.450
15	Oregon	110.00	264.00	11.00	0.380
16	Pennsylvania	109.00	178.00	44.00	0.380
17	North Carolina	105.00	140.00	31.00	0.520
18	Delaware	104.00	189.00	55.00	0.550
19	Mississippi	99.50	180.00	22.50	0.500
20	Massachusetts	88.50	298.00	32.00	0.310
21	Louisiana	84.50	130.00	23.00	0.500
22	North Dakota	83.00	191.00	23.50	0.420
23	Georgia	82.50	238.00	36.00	0.510
23	New York	82.50	173.00	31.00	0.400
25	Connecticut	81.50	—	—	—
26	Maine	77.50	145.00	33.00	0.370
27	Alabama	76.50	142.00	25.00	0.480
28	Washington	75.50	438.00	8.60	0.340
29	New Jersey	73.50	150.00	47.50	0.430
30	Vermont	68.00	150.00	31.00	0.270
30	Virginia	68.00	120.00	28.00	0.430
32	Kansas	64.00	167.00	23.50	0.570
33	Idaho	63.00	284.00	15.00	0.340
34	New Hampshire	60.00	250.00	27.00	0.300
35	Florida	56.00	268.00	20.00	0.280
36	Arkansas	52.00	154.00	22.00	0.480
37	South Carolina	49.50	118.00	20.50	0.510
38	West Virginia	44.50	—	16.00	0.250
39	California	40.00	483.00	16.00	0.300
40	Texas	36.50	114.00	7.70	0.380
41	Oklahoma	36.00	101.00	18.00	0.450
42	Utah	34.50	120.00	5.50	0.080
43	Colorado	33.00	183.00	7.00	0.270
44	Montana	32.50	104.00	8.30	0.170
45	New Mexico	18.50	152.00	4.10	0.210
46	Wyoming	16.00	80.00	7.50	0.150
—	Arizona	—	334.00	1.90	—
—	Nevada	—	160.00	10.50	—

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Dollars per acre per year, state averages from the latest published survey year. Unshaded and unranked: Arizona, Nevada (no non-irrigated cropland average published). Alaska and Rhode Island have no USDA cash-rent series. Source: USDA NASS cash rents survey. Soil is the average county NCCPI from USDA SSURGO. Planning-grade — not an appraisal.