County · South Dakota · USDA NASS 2024

Fall River County

cropland

$26.50/ac

SD avg $136.00

Pasture

$13.50/ac

irrigated —

Soil NCCPI

0.241

SD avg 0.450

Rank · cropland

65/66

percentile 2

Δ since 2019

+8%

SD +16%

USDA's 2024 survey puts non-irrigated cropland in Fall River County at $26.5 per acre per year, with pasture at $13.5/acre. The county's soils index 0.24 (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 8% since 2019; Fall River County ranks 65 of 66 South Dakota counties.

All counties · 66 rows

#	County	Cropland ↓	Irrigated	Pasture	NCCPI
1	Moody	251.00	243.00	65.50	0.640
2	Union	235.00	252.00	64.00	0.594
3	Lincoln	232.00	260.00	66.50	0.563
4	Clay	213.00	281.00	61.00	0.548
5	Minnehaha	212.00	—	64.00	0.630
6	Brookings	207.00	231.00	65.00	0.564
7	Turner	198.00	267.00	59.00	0.604
8	Hamlin	194.00	—	63.50	0.597
8	Yankton	194.00	307.00	60.50	0.551
10	Mccook	193.00	—	64.50	0.541
11	Hanson	184.00	—	58.50	—
12	Lake	183.00	232.00	73.00	0.564
13	Deuel	182.00	—	62.00	0.571
14	Codington	176.00	—	61.50	0.568
15	Roberts	174.00	—	42.00	0.527
16	Hutchinson	172.00	209.00	55.00	—
17	Brown	165.00	202.00	49.50	0.496
18	Bon Homme	164.00	230.00	53.50	0.535
19	Kingsbury	162.00	—	60.50	0.583
20	Davison	159.00	—	63.50	0.568
21	Grant	157.00	—	58.50	0.541
22	Clark	151.00	256.00	50.50	0.555
23	Day	149.00	—	51.00	0.535
23	Marshall	149.00	—	45.50	0.514
25	Miner	146.00	—	69.50	0.529
26	Charles Mix	145.00	—	52.00	0.521
27	Douglas	144.00	—	52.00	0.564
28	Sanborn	129.00	—	61.00	0.492
29	Beadle	128.00	255.00	55.50	0.525
30	Aurora	127.00	—	59.00	0.535
31	Spink	126.00	179.00	55.00	0.513
32	Edmunds	119.00	—	50.50	0.472
33	Brule	114.00	—	40.00	—
34	Jerauld	112.00	—	50.50	0.526
35	Faulk	111.00	—	44.00	0.472
36	Mcpherson	105.00	—	46.00	0.446
37	Hand	103.00	—	54.00	0.524
38	Potter	97.50	—	38.50	0.488
38	Walworth	97.50	—	31.00	0.456
40	Sully	97.00	—	27.00	0.515
41	Lyman	94.00	—	30.50	0.281
42	Campbell	85.00	180.00	37.50	0.430
43	Gregory	80.00	—	37.00	0.343
44	Hughes	77.00	160.00	38.50	0.453
45	Hyde	76.50	—	45.00	0.464
46	Buffalo	75.00	—	41.50	—
47	Tripp	72.00	—	36.00	0.341
48	Butte	56.50	115.00	13.50	0.216
49	Dewey	50.00	—	11.50	0.243
49	Haakon	50.00	—	16.50	0.262
51	Jackson	47.50	—	18.50	—
52	Corson	46.00	—	18.00	0.269
53	Ziebach	45.50	—	12.00	0.239
54	Mellette	43.00	—	20.50	0.256
55	Stanley	42.50	—	25.50	0.228
56	Perkins	41.50	—	15.00	0.269
57	Pennington	37.50	—	16.50	—
58	Todd	35.50	—	17.00	0.326
59	Bennett	34.00	—	12.50	0.289
59	Meade	34.00	—	18.00	—
61	Oglala Lakota	33.50	—	6.80	—
62	Jones	33.00	—	20.00	0.257
63	Harding	32.50	—	11.50	0.207
64	Lawrence	29.00	82.00	15.00	0.247
65	Fall River	26.50	—	13.50	0.241
66	Custer	24.00	—	13.00	—

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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.