County cash rent

Colorado Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 20 Colorado county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2025. The 2026 state average is USD 34/ac, up USD 1/ac from 2025.

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

The five highest reported Colorado counties in 2025 are Boulder (USD 49/ac), Phillips (USD 46/ac), Sedgwick (USD 45/ac), Yuma (USD 45/ac), Kit Carson (USD 38/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Rio Blanco (USD 13/ac), Arapahoe (USD 14/ac), Routt (USD 14/ac), Adams (USD 20/ac), Kiowa (USD 25/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

Colorado cash rent by county (2025)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Adams2025USD 20/acNASS county figure
Arapahoe2025USD 14/acNASS county figure
Baca2025USD 31/acNASS county figure
Boulder2025USD 49/acNASS county figure
Cheyenne2025USD 29/acNASS county figure
Conejos2025USD 31/acNASS county figure
Kiowa2025USD 25/acNASS county figure
Kit Carson2025USD 38/acNASS county figure
Larimer2025USD 38/acNASS county figure
Lincoln2025USD 29/acNASS county figure
Logan2025USD 36/acNASS county figure
Montezuma2025USD 25/acNASS county figure
Morgan2025USD 35/acNASS county figure
Phillips2025USD 46/acNASS county figure
Prowers2025USD 29/acNASS county figure
Rio Blanco2025USD 13/acNASS county figure
Routt2025USD 14/acNASS county figure
Sedgwick2025USD 45/acNASS county figure
Washington2025USD 38/acNASS county figure
Yuma2025USD 45/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 34/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

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

The 2026 state average is USD 34/ac, up USD 1/ac from 2025. The trend line below uses NASS state rows so it stays stable even when individual county suppression changes year to year.

Colorado non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 35 30 2022 34 2023 32 2024 34 2025 33 2026 34
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.

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

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