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County · South Dakota · USDA NASS 2025

Corson County

cropland
$46.00/ac
SD avg $136.00
Pasture
$18.00/ac
irrigated —
Soil NCCPI
0.269
SD avg 0.450
Rank · cropland
52/66
percentile 21
Δ since 2019
+15%
SD +16%

USDA's 2025 survey puts non-irrigated cropland in Corson County at $46 per acre per year, with pasture at $18/acre. The county's soils index 0.27 (NCCPI), below the South Dakota county average of 0.45 — individual parcels run higher or lower, which moves real rents. Non-irrigated cropland rent here is up 15% since 2019; Corson County ranks 52 of 66 South Dakota counties.

South Dakota counties · cropland $/ac
Aurora County — $127/ac croplandBeadle County — $128/ac croplandBennett County — $34/ac croplandBon Homme County — $164/ac croplandBrookings County — $207/ac croplandBrown County — $165/ac croplandBrule County — $114/ac croplandBuffalo County — $75/ac croplandButte County — $56.5/ac croplandCampbell County — $85/ac croplandCharles Mix County — $145/ac croplandClark County — $151/ac croplandClay County — $213/ac croplandCodington County — $176/ac croplandCorson County — $46/ac croplandCuster County — $24/ac croplandDavison County — $159/ac croplandDay County — $149/ac croplandDeuel County — $182/ac croplandDewey County — $50/ac croplandDouglas County — $144/ac croplandEdmunds County — $119/ac croplandFall River County — $26.5/ac croplandFaulk County — $111/ac croplandGrant County — $157/ac croplandGregory County — $80/ac croplandHaakon County — $50/ac croplandHamlin County — $194/ac croplandHand County — $103/ac croplandHanson County — $184/ac croplandHarding County — $32.5/ac croplandHughes County — $77/ac croplandHutchinson County — $172/ac croplandHyde County — $76.5/ac croplandJackson County — $47.5/ac croplandJerauld County — $112/ac croplandJones County — $33/ac croplandKingsbury County — $162/ac croplandLake County — $183/ac croplandLawrence County — $29/ac croplandLincoln County — $232/ac croplandLyman County — $94/ac croplandMccook County — $193/ac croplandMcpherson County — $105/ac croplandMarshall County — $149/ac croplandMeade County — $34/ac croplandMellette County — $43/ac croplandMiner County — $146/ac croplandMinnehaha County — $212/ac croplandMoody County — $251/ac croplandOglala Lakota County — $33.5/ac croplandPennington County — $37.5/ac croplandPerkins County — $41.5/ac croplandPotter County — $97.5/ac croplandRoberts County — $174/ac croplandSanborn County — $129/ac croplandSpink County — $126/ac croplandStanley County — $42.5/ac croplandSully County — $97/ac croplandTodd County — $35.5/ac croplandTripp County — $72/ac croplandTurner County — $198/ac croplandUnion County — $235/ac croplandWalworth County — $97.5/ac croplandYankton County — $194/ac croplandZiebach County — $45.5/ac cropland
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$/ac cropland · quantile classes
cropland $/ac · 2019–2025
CorsonSouth Dakota average
050100201920202021202220232024202513646

Source: USDA NASS cash rents survey, county estimates, latest published year per series. Soil productivity from USDA SSURGO (NCCPI). Planning-grade market data — not an appraisal, legal, or financial advice. Free · instant · nobody calls you.