County cash rent

Kentucky Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 80 Kentucky county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2025. 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.

The five highest reported Kentucky counties in 2025 are Union (USD 271/ac), Logan (USD 251/ac), Henderson (USD 234/ac), Webster (USD 227/ac), Daviess (USD 217/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Whitley (USD 18/ac), Jackson (USD 20/ac), Carter (USD 28/ac), Morgan (USD 29/ac), Magoffin (USD 30/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

Kentucky cash rent by county (2025)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Adair2025USD 155/acNASS county figure
Allen2025USD 148/acNASS county figure
Anderson2025USD 72/acNASS county figure
Ballard2025USD 160/acNASS county figure
Bourbon2025USD 103/acNASS county figure
Bracken2025USD 92/acNASS county figure
Breckinridge2025USD 132/acNASS county figure
Bullitt2025USD 73/acNASS county figure
Caldwell2025USD 170/acNASS county figure
Calloway2025USD 174/acNASS county figure
Campbell2025USD 50/acNASS county figure
Carlisle2025USD 170/acNASS county figure
Carroll2025USD 90/acNASS county figure
Carter2025USD 28/acNASS county figure
Casey2025USD 110/acNASS county figure
Christian2025USD 201/acNASS county figure
Clark2025USD 91/acNASS county figure
Clay2025USD 51/acNASS county figure
Clinton2025USD 92/acNASS county figure
Crittenden2025USD 178/acNASS county figure
Cumberland2025USD 80/acNASS county figure
Daviess2025USD 217/acNASS county figure
Edmonson2025USD 123/acNASS county figure
Estill2025USD 31/acNASS county figure
Fayette2025USD 84/acNASS county figure
Fleming2025USD 124/acNASS county figure
Franklin2025USD 66/acNASS county figure
Fulton2025USD 188/acNASS county figure
Garrard2025USD 66/acNASS county figure
Graves2025USD 163/acNASS county figure
Grayson2025USD 108/acNASS county figure
Green2025USD 152/acNASS county figure
Hardin2025USD 158/acNASS county figure
Harrison2025USD 100/acNASS county figure
Hart2025USD 158/acNASS county figure
Henderson2025USD 234/acNASS county figure
Henry2025USD 87/acNASS county figure
Hickman2025USD 188/acNASS county figure
Jackson2025USD 20/acNASS county figure
Jefferson2025USD 53/acNASS county figure
Jessamine2025USD 67/acNASS county figure
Larue2025USD 201/acNASS county figure
Laurel2025USD 36/acNASS county figure
Lawrence2025USD 44/acNASS county figure
Lewis2025USD 91/acNASS county figure
Lincoln2025USD 112/acNASS county figure
Logan2025USD 251/acNASS county figure
Lyon2025USD 144/acNASS county figure
Madison2025USD 42/acNASS county figure
Magoffin2025USD 30/acNASS county figure
Marion2025USD 174/acNASS county figure
Mason2025USD 100/acNASS county figure
Mccracken2025USD 149/acNASS county figure
Mclean2025USD 190/acNASS county figure
Meade2025USD 170/acNASS county figure
Metcalfe2025USD 192/acNASS county figure
Montgomery2025USD 53/acNASS county figure
Morgan2025USD 29/acNASS county figure
Muhlenberg2025USD 145/acNASS county figure
Nelson2025USD 190/acNASS county figure
Nicholas2025USD 120/acNASS county figure
Oldham2025USD 94/acNASS county figure
Pulaski2025USD 113/acNASS county figure
Robertson2025USD 75/acNASS county figure
Rockcastle2025USD 62/acNASS county figure
Russell2025USD 89/acNASS county figure
Scott2025USD 100/acNASS county figure
Shelby2025USD 165/acNASS county figure
Simpson2025USD 216/acNASS county figure
Spencer2025USD 121/acNASS county figure
Taylor2025USD 168/acNASS county figure
Todd2025USD 210/acNASS county figure
Trigg2025USD 185/acNASS county figure
Union2025USD 271/acNASS county figure
Warren2025USD 198/acNASS county figure
Washington2025USD 73/acNASS county figure
Wayne2025USD 125/acNASS county figure
Webster2025USD 227/acNASS county figure
Whitley2025USD 18/acNASS county figure
Woodford2025USD 128/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 August 2026. High confidence.

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.

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