County cash rent

Indiana Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 89 Indiana county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2026. The 2026 state average is USD 230/ac, up USD 5/ac from 2025.

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The five highest reported Indiana counties in 2026 are Warren (USD 303/ac), Benton (USD 300/ac), Clinton (USD 298/ac), Montgomery (USD 287/ac), Wells (USD 279/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Perry (USD 127/ac), Brown (USD 134/ac), Switzerland (USD 134/ac), De Kalb (USD 146/ac), Dearborn (USD 147/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

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Indiana cash rent by county (2026)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Adams2026USD 235/acNASS county figure
Allen2026USD 219/acNASS county figure
Bartholomew2026USD 224/acNASS county figure
Benton2026USD 300/acNASS county figure
Blackford2026USD 246/acNASS county figure
Boone2026USD 264/acNASS county figure
Brown2026USD 134/acNASS county figure
Carroll2026USD 275/acNASS county figure
Cass2026USD 237/acNASS county figure
Clark2026USD 150/acNASS county figure
Clay2026USD 218/acNASS county figure
Clinton2026USD 298/acNASS county figure
Daviess2026USD 255/acNASS county figure
De Kalb2026USD 146/acNASS county figure
Dearborn2026USD 147/acNASS county figure
Decatur2026USD 235/acNASS county figure
Delaware2026USD 240/acNASS county figure
Dubois2026USD 200/acNASS county figure
Elkhart2026USD 230/acNASS county figure
Fayette2026USD 255/acNASS county figure
Fountain2026USD 265/acNASS county figure
Franklin2026USD 177/acNASS county figure
Fulton2026USD 208/acNASS county figure
Gibson2026USD 216/acNASS county figure
Grant2026USD 195/acNASS county figure
Greene2026USD 197/acNASS county figure
Hamilton2026USD 239/acNASS county figure
Hancock2026USD 240/acNASS county figure
Harrison2026USD 170/acNASS county figure
Hendricks2026USD 260/acNASS county figure
Henry2026USD 203/acNASS county figure
Howard2026USD 255/acNASS county figure
Huntington2026USD 200/acNASS county figure
Jackson2026USD 196/acNASS county figure
Jasper2026USD 235/acNASS county figure
Jay2026USD 217/acNASS county figure
Jefferson2026USD 150/acNASS county figure
Jennings2026USD 209/acNASS county figure
Johnson2026USD 228/acNASS county figure
Knox2026USD 229/acNASS county figure
Kosciusko2026USD 219/acNASS county figure
La Porte2026USD 200/acNASS county figure
Lagrange2026USD 159/acNASS county figure
Lake2026USD 186/acNASS county figure
Lawrence2026USD 179/acNASS county figure
Madison2026USD 245/acNASS county figure
Marion2026USD 185/acNASS county figure
Marshall2026USD 219/acNASS county figure
Martin2026USD 190/acNASS county figure
Miami2026USD 218/acNASS county figure
Monroe2026USD 149/acNASS county figure
Montgomery2026USD 287/acNASS county figure
Morgan2026USD 190/acNASS county figure
Newton2026USD 235/acNASS county figure
Noble2026USD 190/acNASS county figure
Orange2026USD 209/acNASS county figure
Owen2026USD 162/acNASS county figure
Parke2026USD 197/acNASS county figure
Perry2026USD 127/acNASS county figure
Pike2026USD 194/acNASS county figure
Porter2026USD 195/acNASS county figure
Posey2026USD 225/acNASS county figure
Pulaski2026USD 217/acNASS county figure
Putnam2026USD 224/acNASS county figure
Randolph2026USD 209/acNASS county figure
Ripley2026USD 174/acNASS county figure
Rush2026USD 242/acNASS county figure
Scott2026USD 155/acNASS county figure
Shelby2026USD 249/acNASS county figure
Spencer2026USD 185/acNASS county figure
St. Joseph2026USD 196/acNASS county figure
Starke2026USD 170/acNASS county figure
Steuben2026USD 153/acNASS county figure
Sullivan2026USD 230/acNASS county figure
Switzerland2026USD 134/acNASS county figure
Tippecanoe2026USD 267/acNASS county figure
Tipton2026USD 275/acNASS county figure
Union2026USD 220/acNASS county figure
Vanderburgh2026USD 233/acNASS county figure
Vermillion2026USD 270/acNASS county figure
Vigo2026USD 244/acNASS county figure
Wabash2026USD 201/acNASS county figure
Warren2026USD 303/acNASS county figure
Warrick2026USD 175/acNASS county figure
Washington2026USD 168/acNASS county figure
Wayne2026USD 214/acNASS county figure
Wells2026USD 279/acNASS county figure
White2026USD 263/acNASS county figure
Whitley2026USD 199/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 230/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

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

Source: USDA NASS QuickStats, Survey years 2022 to 2026. Retrieved October 2026. Labeled Measured.

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Five-year Indiana trend

The 2026 state average is USD 230/ac, up USD 5/ac from 2025. The trend line below uses NASS state rows so it stays stable even when individual county suppression changes year to year.

Indiana non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 235 205 2022 209 2023 223 2024 228 2025 225 2026 230
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.

County average vs. a real parcel

The Indiana state average is not your number.

Indiana state average, 2026

$230/ac

USDA NASS, non-irrigated cropland

Your parcel

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Every parcel-scale figure is a Scout free read; see how we get our numbers. The state average anchor is the USDA NASS 2026 survey for non-irrigated cropland.

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