County cash rent

Arkansas Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 62 Arkansas county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2025. The 2026 state average is USD 50/ac, down USD 2/ac from 2025.

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

The five highest reported Arkansas counties in 2025 are Lawrence (USD 115/ac), Jackson (USD 114/ac), Mississippi (USD 111/ac), Crittenden (USD 103/ac), Lee (USD 100/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Union (USD 8/ac), Columbia (USD 12/ac), Montgomery (USD 12/ac), Searcy (USD 13/ac), Saline (USD 14/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

Arkansas cash rent by county (2025)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Arkansas2025USD 98/acNASS county figure
Baxter2025USD 21/acNASS county figure
Benton2025USD 35/acNASS county figure
Boone2025USD 38/acNASS county figure
Calhoun2025USD 27/acNASS county figure
Carroll2025USD 50/acNASS county figure
Clark2025USD 31/acNASS county figure
Clay2025USD 42/acNASS county figure
Cleburne2025USD 26/acNASS county figure
Cleveland2025USD 33/acNASS county figure
Columbia2025USD 12/acNASS county figure
Conway2025USD 18/acNASS county figure
Crawford2025USD 23/acNASS county figure
Crittenden2025USD 103/acNASS county figure
Cross2025USD 98/acNASS county figure
Drew2025USD 25/acNASS county figure
Faulkner2025USD 31/acNASS county figure
Franklin2025USD 19/acNASS county figure
Fulton2025USD 25/acNASS county figure
Greene2025USD 78/acNASS county figure
Hempstead2025USD 23/acNASS county figure
Howard2025USD 22/acNASS county figure
Independence2025USD 32/acNASS county figure
Izard2025USD 20/acNASS county figure
Jackson2025USD 114/acNASS county figure
Jefferson2025USD 54/acNASS county figure
Johnson2025USD 21/acNASS county figure
Lafayette2025USD 58/acNASS county figure
Lawrence2025USD 115/acNASS county figure
Lee2025USD 100/acNASS county figure
Lincoln2025USD 27/acNASS county figure
Little River2025USD 35/acNASS county figure
Logan2025USD 26/acNASS county figure
Lonoke2025USD 35/acNASS county figure
Madison2025USD 35/acNASS county figure
Marion2025USD 26/acNASS county figure
Miller2025USD 35/acNASS county figure
Mississippi2025USD 111/acNASS county figure
Montgomery2025USD 12/acNASS county figure
Nevada2025USD 18/acNASS county figure
Newton2025USD 22/acNASS county figure
Perry2025USD 25/acNASS county figure
Pike2025USD 23/acNASS county figure
Poinsett2025USD 64/acNASS county figure
Polk2025USD 23/acNASS county figure
Pope2025USD 22/acNASS county figure
Prairie2025USD 39/acNASS county figure
Pulaski2025USD 43/acNASS county figure
Randolph2025USD 44/acNASS county figure
Saint Francis2025USD 100/acNASS county figure
Saline2025USD 14/acNASS county figure
Scott2025USD 16/acNASS county figure
Searcy2025USD 13/acNASS county figure
Sebastian2025USD 21/acNASS county figure
Sevier2025USD 27/acNASS county figure
Sharp2025USD 20/acNASS county figure
Stone2025USD 18/acNASS county figure
Union2025USD 8/acNASS county figure
Van Buren2025USD 14/acNASS county figure
Washington2025USD 53/acNASS county figure
White2025USD 26/acNASS county figure
Yell2025USD 17/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 50/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

County averages, not medians. The final fallback row shows the Arkansas 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 Arkansas trend

The 2026 state average is USD 50/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.

Arkansas non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 55 45 2022 46 2023 49 2024 51 2025 52 2026 50
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 Arkansas county benchmark, then let Scout read the parcel's soils, acreage, flood, wetlands, CRP fit, and energy context.

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