County cash rent

Louisiana Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 44 Louisiana county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2025. The 2026 state average is USD 85/ac, unchanged from 2025.

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

The five highest reported Louisiana counties in 2025 are Madison (USD 137/ac), East Carroll (USD 136/ac), Concordia (USD 120/ac), Avoyelles (USD 116/ac), Rapides (USD 115/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Calcasieu (USD 16/ac), East Baton Rouge (USD 17/ac), Lincoln (USD 19/ac), Saint Helena (USD 19/ac), Claiborne (USD 20/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

Louisiana cash rent by county (2025)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Acadia2025USD 63/acNASS county figure
Allen2025USD 31/acNASS county figure
Avoyelles2025USD 116/acNASS county figure
Beauregard2025USD 26/acNASS county figure
Bossier2025USD 55/acNASS county figure
Caddo2025USD 66/acNASS county figure
Calcasieu2025USD 16/acNASS county figure
Catahoula2025USD 86/acNASS county figure
Claiborne2025USD 20/acNASS county figure
Concordia2025USD 120/acNASS county figure
De Soto2025USD 39/acNASS county figure
East Baton Rouge2025USD 17/acNASS county figure
East Carroll2025USD 136/acNASS county figure
East Feliciana2025USD 28/acNASS county figure
Evangeline2025USD 88/acNASS county figure
Franklin2025USD 107/acNASS county figure
Grant2025USD 78/acNASS county figure
Iberia2025USD 109/acNASS county figure
Iberville2025USD 41/acNASS county figure
Jackson2025USD 31/acNASS county figure
Jefferson Davis2025USD 22/acNASS county figure
Lafayette2025USD 84/acNASS county figure
Lincoln2025USD 19/acNASS county figure
Madison2025USD 137/acNASS county figure
Morehouse2025USD 95/acNASS county figure
Natchitoches2025USD 74/acNASS county figure
Ouachita2025USD 101/acNASS county figure
Pointe Coupee2025USD 98/acNASS county figure
Rapides2025USD 115/acNASS county figure
Red River2025USD 75/acNASS county figure
Richland2025USD 81/acNASS county figure
Sabine2025USD 21/acNASS county figure
Saint Helena2025USD 19/acNASS county figure
Saint James2025USD 61/acNASS county figure
Saint Landry2025USD 87/acNASS county figure
Saint Martin2025USD 80/acNASS county figure
Saint Mary2025USD 89/acNASS county figure
Tangipahoa2025USD 29/acNASS county figure
Tensas2025USD 111/acNASS county figure
Union2025USD 30/acNASS county figure
Vermilion2025USD 88/acNASS county figure
Washington2025USD 38/acNASS county figure
Webster2025USD 22/acNASS county figure
West Carroll2025USD 60/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 August 2026. High confidence.

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.

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