County cash rent

Illinois Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 95 Illinois county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2025. The 2026 state average is USD 261/ac, down USD 3/ac from 2025.

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

The five highest reported Illinois counties in 2025 are Sangamon (USD 372/ac), Macon (USD 361/ac), Logan (USD 352/ac), Moultrie (USD 350/ac), De Witt (USD 330/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Pope (USD 92/ac), Williamson (USD 98/ac), Massac (USD 121/ac), Cook (USD 123/ac), Jefferson (USD 129/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

For broader state soil, parcel, energy, and CRP context, use the Illinois farmland analysis hub. This page stays focused on rent queries.

Illinois cash rent by county (2025)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Adams2025USD 230/acNASS county figure
Alexander2025USD 189/acNASS county figure
Bond2025USD 232/acNASS county figure
Boone2025USD 274/acNASS county figure
Brown2025USD 226/acNASS county figure
Bureau2025USD 320/acNASS county figure
Calhoun2025USD 222/acNASS county figure
Carroll2025USD 303/acNASS county figure
Cass2025USD 291/acNASS county figure
Champaign2025USD 297/acNASS county figure
Christian2025USD 309/acNASS county figure
Clark2025USD 240/acNASS county figure
Clay2025USD 197/acNASS county figure
Coles2025USD 291/acNASS county figure
Cook2025USD 123/acNASS county figure
Crawford2025USD 223/acNASS county figure
Cumberland2025USD 198/acNASS county figure
De Kalb2025USD 318/acNASS county figure
De Witt2025USD 330/acNASS county figure
Douglas2025USD 299/acNASS county figure
Edgar2025USD 310/acNASS county figure
Edwards2025USD 130/acNASS county figure
Effingham2025USD 205/acNASS county figure
Fayette2025USD 181/acNASS county figure
Ford2025USD 281/acNASS county figure
Franklin2025USD 131/acNASS county figure
Fulton2025USD 259/acNASS county figure
Gallatin2025USD 163/acNASS county figure
Greene2025USD 274/acNASS county figure
Grundy2025USD 316/acNASS county figure
Hamilton2025USD 138/acNASS county figure
Hancock2025USD 304/acNASS county figure
Henderson2025USD 293/acNASS county figure
Jackson2025USD 163/acNASS county figure
Jasper2025USD 201/acNASS county figure
Jefferson2025USD 129/acNASS county figure
Jersey2025USD 227/acNASS county figure
Jo Daviess2025USD 252/acNASS county figure
Johnson2025USD 129/acNASS county figure
Kane2025USD 281/acNASS county figure
Kankakee2025USD 243/acNASS county figure
Kendall2025USD 321/acNASS county figure
Knox2025USD 279/acNASS county figure
La Salle2025USD 268/acNASS county figure
Lake2025USD 141/acNASS county figure
Lawrence2025USD 222/acNASS county figure
Lee2025USD 273/acNASS county figure
Logan2025USD 352/acNASS county figure
Macon2025USD 361/acNASS county figure
Macoupin2025USD 264/acNASS county figure
Madison2025USD 231/acNASS county figure
Marion2025USD 166/acNASS county figure
Marshall2025USD 292/acNASS county figure
Mason2025USD 277/acNASS county figure
Massac2025USD 121/acNASS county figure
Mcdonough2025USD 299/acNASS county figure
Mchenry2025USD 220/acNASS county figure
Mclean2025USD 303/acNASS county figure
Menard2025USD 317/acNASS county figure
Mercer2025USD 295/acNASS county figure
Monroe2025USD 162/acNASS county figure
Montgomery2025USD 312/acNASS county figure
Morgan2025USD 266/acNASS county figure
Moultrie2025USD 350/acNASS county figure
Ogle2025USD 279/acNASS county figure
Peoria2025USD 265/acNASS county figure
Perry2025USD 150/acNASS county figure
Piatt2025USD 320/acNASS county figure
Pike2025USD 231/acNASS county figure
Pope2025USD 92/acNASS county figure
Pulaski2025USD 183/acNASS county figure
Putnam2025USD 241/acNASS county figure
Randolph2025USD 169/acNASS county figure
Richland2025USD 187/acNASS county figure
Rock Island2025USD 249/acNASS county figure
Saline2025USD 172/acNASS county figure
Sangamon2025USD 372/acNASS county figure
Schuyler2025USD 224/acNASS county figure
Scott2025USD 257/acNASS county figure
Shelby2025USD 228/acNASS county figure
St Clair2025USD 255/acNASS county figure
Stark2025USD 288/acNASS county figure
Stephenson2025USD 251/acNASS county figure
Tazewell2025USD 283/acNASS county figure
Vermilion2025USD 238/acNASS county figure
Wabash2025USD 238/acNASS county figure
Warren2025USD 277/acNASS county figure
Washington2025USD 195/acNASS county figure
Wayne2025USD 181/acNASS county figure
White2025USD 186/acNASS county figure
Whiteside2025USD 287/acNASS county figure
Will2025USD 225/acNASS county figure
Williamson2025USD 98/acNASS county figure
Winnebago2025USD 288/acNASS county figure
Woodford2025USD 290/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 261/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

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

The 2026 state average is USD 261/ac, down USD 3/ac from 2025. The trend line below uses NASS state rows so it stays stable even when individual county suppression changes year to year.

Illinois non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 275 235 2022 243 2023 259 2024 269 2025 264 2026 261
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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