County cash rent

Louisiana Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 46 Louisiana county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2026. The 2026 state average is USD 85/ac, unchanged from 2025.

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

Free in Louisiana: 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 Louisiana county is live.

The five highest reported Louisiana counties in 2026 are Madison (USD 143/ac), East Carroll (USD 130/ac), Concordia (USD 119/ac), Avoyelles (USD 115/ac), Rapides (USD 114/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Saint Tammany (USD 14/ac), East Baton Rouge (USD 18/ac), Jefferson Davis (USD 18/ac), Claiborne (USD 19/ac), West Feliciana (USD 20/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

Louisiana cash rent by county (2026)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Acadia2026USD 54/acNASS county figure
Avoyelles2026USD 115/acNASS county figure
Beauregard2026USD 22/acNASS county figure
Bossier2026USD 38/acNASS county figure
Caddo2026USD 71/acNASS county figure
Calcasieu2026USD 21/acNASS county figure
Caldwell2026USD 49/acNASS county figure
Catahoula2026USD 88/acNASS county figure
Claiborne2026USD 19/acNASS county figure
Concordia2026USD 119/acNASS county figure
De Soto2026USD 30/acNASS county figure
East Baton Rouge2026USD 18/acNASS county figure
East Carroll2026USD 130/acNASS county figure
East Feliciana2026USD 22/acNASS county figure
Evangeline2026USD 44/acNASS county figure
Franklin2026USD 78/acNASS county figure
Iberia2026USD 94/acNASS county figure
Iberville2026USD 32/acNASS county figure
Jackson2026USD 35/acNASS county figure
Jefferson Davis2026USD 18/acNASS county figure
Lafayette2026USD 74/acNASS county figure
Lafourche2026USD 26/acNASS county figure
Lincoln2026USD 22/acNASS county figure
Madison2026USD 143/acNASS county figure
Morehouse2026USD 75/acNASS county figure
Natchitoches2026USD 58/acNASS county figure
Ouachita2026USD 85/acNASS county figure
Pointe Coupee2026USD 85/acNASS county figure
Rapides2026USD 114/acNASS county figure
Red River2026USD 78/acNASS county figure
Richland2026USD 80/acNASS county figure
Sabine2026USD 21/acNASS county figure
Saint Helena2026USD 24/acNASS county figure
Saint James2026USD 63/acNASS county figure
Saint Landry2026USD 89/acNASS county figure
Saint Martin2026USD 73/acNASS county figure
Saint Mary2026USD 81/acNASS county figure
Saint Tammany2026USD 14/acNASS county figure
Tangipahoa2026USD 37/acNASS county figure
Tensas2026USD 104/acNASS county figure
Union2026USD 27/acNASS county figure
Vermilion2026USD 87/acNASS county figure
Vernon2026USD 21/acNASS county figure
Washington2026USD 35/acNASS county figure
West Carroll2026USD 98/acNASS county figure
West Feliciana2026USD 20/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 85/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

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

The 2026 state average is USD 85/ac, unchanged from 2025. The trend line below uses NASS state rows so it stays stable even when individual county suppression changes year to year.

Louisiana non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 90 70 2022 76 2023 81 2024 83 2025 85 2026 85
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 Louisiana state average is not your number.

Louisiana state average, 2026

$85/ac

USDA NASS, non-irrigated cropland

Your parcel

Run your own parcel to see the gap. Every Louisiana 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 Louisiana county benchmark, then let Scout read the parcel's soils, acreage, flood, wetlands, CRP fit, and energy context.

Analyze Louisiana 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.