County cash rent

Kentucky Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 86 Kentucky county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2026. The 2026 state average is USD 169/ac, up USD 3/ac from 2025.

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

Free in Kentucky: outline your field on the map and see three uses for those acres side by side (farming it, cash rent, and a solar or wind lease, with CRP shown as paused while new enrollment is). Parcel maps you tap to select are Ohio and Indiana only for now. Email me when my Kentucky county is live.

The five highest reported Kentucky counties in 2026 are Union (USD 259/ac), Henderson (USD 236/ac), Logan (USD 232/ac), Webster (USD 229/ac), Simpson (USD 217/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Whitley (USD 17/ac), Estill (USD 22/ac), Morgan (USD 25/ac), Jackson (USD 27/ac), Laurel (USD 33/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

Kentucky cash rent by county (2026)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Adair2026USD 129/acNASS county figure
Allen2026USD 129/acNASS county figure
Anderson2026USD 73/acNASS county figure
Ballard2026USD 161/acNASS county figure
Barren2026USD 150/acNASS county figure
Boone2026USD 45/acNASS county figure
Bourbon2026USD 105/acNASS county figure
Bracken2026USD 71/acNASS county figure
Breckinridge2026USD 127/acNASS county figure
Bullitt2026USD 83/acNASS county figure
Butler2026USD 144/acNASS county figure
Caldwell2026USD 170/acNASS county figure
Calloway2026USD 161/acNASS county figure
Campbell2026USD 45/acNASS county figure
Carlisle2026USD 180/acNASS county figure
Carroll2026USD 80/acNASS county figure
Casey2026USD 111/acNASS county figure
Christian2026USD 200/acNASS county figure
Clark2026USD 93/acNASS county figure
Clinton2026USD 85/acNASS county figure
Crittenden2026USD 168/acNASS county figure
Cumberland2026USD 80/acNASS county figure
Daviess2026USD 207/acNASS county figure
Edmonson2026USD 118/acNASS county figure
Estill2026USD 22/acNASS county figure
Fayette2026USD 80/acNASS county figure
Fleming2026USD 132/acNASS county figure
Franklin2026USD 70/acNASS county figure
Fulton2026USD 191/acNASS county figure
Garrard2026USD 61/acNASS county figure
Grant2026USD 76/acNASS county figure
Graves2026USD 170/acNASS county figure
Grayson2026USD 110/acNASS county figure
Green2026USD 142/acNASS county figure
Greenup2026USD 43/acNASS county figure
Hancock2026USD 160/acNASS county figure
Hardin2026USD 142/acNASS county figure
Harrison2026USD 101/acNASS county figure
Hart2026USD 148/acNASS county figure
Henderson2026USD 236/acNASS county figure
Henry2026USD 95/acNASS county figure
Hickman2026USD 180/acNASS county figure
Hopkins2026USD 160/acNASS county figure
Jackson2026USD 27/acNASS county figure
Jessamine2026USD 60/acNASS county figure
Kenton2026USD 46/acNASS county figure
Larue2026USD 181/acNASS county figure
Laurel2026USD 33/acNASS county figure
Lincoln2026USD 97/acNASS county figure
Livingston2026USD 168/acNASS county figure
Logan2026USD 232/acNASS county figure
Madison2026USD 40/acNASS county figure
Magoffin2026USD 35/acNASS county figure
Marion2026USD 173/acNASS county figure
Marshall2026USD 131/acNASS county figure
Mason2026USD 90/acNASS county figure
Mccracken2026USD 140/acNASS county figure
Mclean2026USD 191/acNASS county figure
Meade2026USD 174/acNASS county figure
Mercer2026USD 79/acNASS county figure
Metcalfe2026USD 180/acNASS county figure
Monroe2026USD 150/acNASS county figure
Montgomery2026USD 60/acNASS county figure
Morgan2026USD 25/acNASS county figure
Muhlenberg2026USD 148/acNASS county figure
Nelson2026USD 180/acNASS county figure
Oldham2026USD 96/acNASS county figure
Pendleton2026USD 50/acNASS county figure
Pulaski2026USD 105/acNASS county figure
Rockcastle2026USD 72/acNASS county figure
Russell2026USD 92/acNASS county figure
Scott2026USD 110/acNASS county figure
Shelby2026USD 166/acNASS county figure
Simpson2026USD 217/acNASS county figure
Spencer2026USD 122/acNASS county figure
Taylor2026USD 162/acNASS county figure
Todd2026USD 200/acNASS county figure
Trigg2026USD 175/acNASS county figure
Union2026USD 259/acNASS county figure
Warren2026USD 200/acNASS county figure
Washington2026USD 62/acNASS county figure
Wayne2026USD 130/acNASS county figure
Webster2026USD 229/acNASS county figure
Whitley2026USD 17/acNASS county figure
Wolfe2026USD 55/acNASS county figure
Woodford2026USD 113/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 169/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

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

Five-year Kentucky trend

The 2026 state average is USD 169/ac, up 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.

Kentucky non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 175 150 2022 156 2023 167 2024 171 2025 166 2026 169
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 Kentucky state average is not your number.

Kentucky state average, 2026

$169/ac

USDA NASS, non-irrigated cropland

Your parcel

Run your own parcel to see the gap. Every Kentucky parcel reads differently on soil, drainage, and rotation.

Use the land's address. If it has no street address, open Scout to find or draw the parcel. No account needed; Scout asks for an email once, before it shows the analysis.

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.

Check the parcel, not just the county.

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

Analyze Kentucky farmland free

Free here: outline your field and see its three uses side by side, with CRP shown as paused. Parcel maps you tap to select are Ohio and Indiana only for now; get an email when your county is live.