Farmland cash rent in Kentucky.

USDA's 2025 survey puts Kentucky's average cropland at $166/acre, irrigated at $209/acre, pasture at $35/acre. County figures below vary widely with soil and local demand — 109 counties in Kentucky have published data (average county soil productivity index 0.47).

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County	Cropland	Irrigated	Pasture	Soil (NCCPI)
Adair County	$155	—	$33	0.42
Allen County	$148	—	$46	0.56
Anderson County	$72	—	$24.5	—
Ballard County	$160	—	$49	—
Barren County	$166	—	$49.5	—
Bath County	$96	—	$21.5	0.38
Boone County	$58	—	$32	—
Bourbon County	$103	—	$44	—
Boyd County	$38	—	—	—
Boyle County	$126	—	$45	—
Bracken County	$92	$275	$12.5	—
Breckinridge County	$132	—	$38	—
Bullitt County	$73	—	$18	—
Butler County	$165	—	$21	—
Caldwell County	$170	—	$43	0.52
Calloway County	$174	$175	$32	—
Campbell County	$50	—	$14.5	—
Carlisle County	$170	—	$50	—
Carroll County	$90	—	$13.5	—
Carter County	$28	—	$14	0.24
Casey County	$110	—	$32.5	0.44
Christian County	$201	$212	$50.5	0.65
Clark County	$90.5	—	$45.5	0.48
Clay County	$51	—	—	0.16
Clinton County	$92	—	$27	0.41
Crittenden County	$178	—	$20	0.47
Cumberland County	$80	—	$35	0.32
Daviess County	$217	—	$29	—
Edmonson County	$123	—	$37	—
Elliott County	$38	—	$10	0.22
Estill County	$31	—	$15	—
Fayette County	$84	—	$40	—
Fleming County	$124	—	$30	0.41
Floyd County	$51.5	—	—	—
Franklin County	$66	—	$24.5	—
Fulton County	$188	—	—	0.59
Gallatin County	—	—	$16.5	—
Garrard County	$65.5	—	$38.5	—
Grant County	$40	—	$28.5	—
Graves County	$163	—	$32	0.52
Grayson County	$108	—	$31	0.48
Green County	$152	—	$29	—
Greenup County	$51.5	—	$13	—
Hancock County	$146	—	$20	—
Hardin County	$158	—	$42	—
Harrison County	$100	—	$33	0.42
Hart County	$158	—	$39.5	—
Henderson County	$234	—	$41.5	0.67
Henry County	$87	—	$22	—
Hickman County	$188	—	—	—
Hopkins County	$157	—	$33.5	0.50
Jackson County	$20	—	$13	—
Jefferson County	$52.5	—	—	0.58
Jessamine County	$67	—	$35	—
Johnson County	$30.5	—	$17.5	—
Kenton County	$53	—	$27	—
Knox County	$29.5	—	$15	—
Larue County	$201	—	$40	—
Laurel County	$35.5	—	$15.5	—
Lawrence County	$44	—	—	—
Lewis County	$91	—	$40	0.25
Lincoln County	$112	—	$41	—
Livingston County	$174	—	$39	0.52
Logan County	$251	—	$45	0.65
Lyon County	$144	—	$21	—
Madison County	$42	—	$28.5	0.45
Magoffin County	$30	—	$11	—
Marion County	$174	—	$46.5	0.43
Marshall County	$156	—	$35	—
Mason County	$100	—	$40	0.43
Mccracken County	$149	—	—	—
Mccreary County	$43.5	—	—	—
Mclean County	$190	—	$35.5	—
Meade County	$170	—	$36	—
Menifee County	$41	—	$26	—
Mercer County	$89.5	—	$35.5	—
Metcalfe County	$192	—	$29	0.46
Monroe County	$150	—	$41.5	0.57
Montgomery County	$53	—	$32	0.40
Morgan County	$28.5	—	$16.5	—
Muhlenberg County	$145	—	$31	—
Nelson County	$190	—	$43.5	0.51
Nicholas County	$120	—	$25	—
Ohio County	$168	—	$41	0.50
Oldham County	$94	—	$27	0.62
Owen County	$86.5	—	$20.5	—
Owsley County	$34	—	—	—
Pendleton County	$52.5	—	$23.5	—
Pulaski County	$113	—	$34	0.45
Robertson County	$74.5	—	—	—
Rockcastle County	$62	—	$20	—
Rowan County	$42.5	—	$28	—
Russell County	$88.5	—	$41.5	0.41
Scott County	$100	—	$31.5	0.51
Shelby County	$165	—	$28.5	0.55
Simpson County	$216	—	$38	0.71
Spencer County	$121	—	$37	—
Taylor County	$168	—	$36.5	—
Todd County	$210	—	$47	0.62
Trigg County	$185	—	$41	—
Trimble County	$146	—	—	—
Union County	$271	—	$41	—
Warren County	$198	—	$51	0.57
Washington County	$72.5	—	$32	0.39
Wayne County	$125	—	$30	0.35
Webster County	$227	—	$39	—
Whitley County	$18	—	$15	—
Wolfe County	$42.5	—	$10	—
Woodford County	$128	—	$29.5	—

Dollars per acre per year, latest published year per series (survey years can differ by county). “—” means USDA withholds that series for the county; those price at the state average in our tool, labeled as such. Source: USDA NASS cash rents survey. Soil is the county's average NCCPI from USDA SSURGO. Planning-grade — not an appraisal.