County cash rent

Alabama Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 58 Alabama county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2025. The 2026 state average is USD 75/ac, down USD 2/ac from 2025.

Check a Alabama parcel in Scout County table plus state-level fallback rule.

The five highest reported Alabama counties in 2025 are Limestone (USD 127/ac), Escambia (USD 113/ac), Madison (USD 113/ac), Lawrence (USD 105/ac), Colbert (USD 104/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Clay (USD 14/ac), Choctaw (USD 18/ac), Winston (USD 19/ac), Greene (USD 20/ac), Chambers (USD 21/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

Alabama cash rent by county (2025)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Autauga2025USD 51/acNASS county figure
Baldwin2025USD 93/acNASS county figure
Barbour2025USD 51/acNASS county figure
Bibb2025USD 23/acNASS county figure
Blount2025USD 47/acNASS county figure
Bullock2025USD 33/acNASS county figure
Calhoun2025USD 76/acNASS county figure
Chambers2025USD 21/acNASS county figure
Cherokee2025USD 96/acNASS county figure
Chilton2025USD 23/acNASS county figure
Choctaw2025USD 18/acNASS county figure
Clay2025USD 14/acNASS county figure
Cleburne2025USD 29/acNASS county figure
Coffee2025USD 49/acNASS county figure
Colbert2025USD 104/acNASS county figure
Conecuh2025USD 32/acNASS county figure
Covington2025USD 61/acNASS county figure
Crenshaw2025USD 26/acNASS county figure
Cullman2025USD 36/acNASS county figure
Dale2025USD 49/acNASS county figure
Dallas2025USD 35/acNASS county figure
De Kalb2025USD 58/acNASS county figure
Elmore2025USD 43/acNASS county figure
Escambia2025USD 113/acNASS county figure
Etowah2025USD 53/acNASS county figure
Fayette2025USD 42/acNASS county figure
Franklin2025USD 71/acNASS county figure
Geneva2025USD 63/acNASS county figure
Greene2025USD 20/acNASS county figure
Hale2025USD 45/acNASS county figure
Henry2025USD 52/acNASS county figure
Houston2025USD 57/acNASS county figure
Jackson2025USD 56/acNASS county figure
Lamar2025USD 41/acNASS county figure
Lauderdale2025USD 77/acNASS county figure
Lawrence2025USD 105/acNASS county figure
Lee2025USD 21/acNASS county figure
Limestone2025USD 127/acNASS county figure
Lowndes2025USD 31/acNASS county figure
Madison2025USD 113/acNASS county figure
Marengo2025USD 39/acNASS county figure
Marion2025USD 37/acNASS county figure
Marshall2025USD 50/acNASS county figure
Monroe2025USD 68/acNASS county figure
Montgomery2025USD 35/acNASS county figure
Morgan2025USD 77/acNASS county figure
Perry2025USD 46/acNASS county figure
Pike2025USD 44/acNASS county figure
Randolph2025USD 28/acNASS county figure
Saint Clair2025USD 25/acNASS county figure
Shelby2025USD 42/acNASS county figure
Sumter2025USD 21/acNASS county figure
Talladega2025USD 46/acNASS county figure
Tuscaloosa2025USD 44/acNASS county figure
Walker2025USD 24/acNASS county figure
Washington2025USD 39/acNASS county figure
Wilcox2025USD 27/acNASS county figure
Winston2025USD 19/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 75/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

County averages, not medians. The final fallback row shows the Alabama state figure explicitly labeled as state-level for counties NASS does not separately report.

Source: USDA NASS QuickStats, Survey years 2022 to 2026. Retrieved August 2026. High confidence.

Five-year Alabama trend

The 2026 state average is USD 75/ac, down USD 2/ac from 2025. The trend line below uses NASS state rows so it stays stable even when individual county suppression changes year to year.

Alabama non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 80 65 2022 67 2023 67 2024 71 2025 77 2026 75
Dollars per acre per year. State rows are USDA NASS QuickStats records.

From county average to parcel read

A county average tells you what surveyed non-irrigated cropland rented for in that county. It does not see whether your acres are high-PI prairie soil, a wet corner, a small irregular field, or ground with better access and drainage than the county average.

Scout reads the parcel's SSURGO soil profile, starts from the county NASS rent when it exists, and applies AgriTerra's PI-based soil band around that benchmark. If the county is unavailable, Scout uses the state figure and labels the downgrade.

Check the parcel, not just the county.

Start with the Alabama county benchmark, then let Scout read the parcel's soils, acreage, flood, wetlands, CRP fit, and energy context.

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