County cash rent

Maine Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 10 Maine county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2025. The 2026 state average is USD 80/ac, up USD 2/ac from 2025.

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The five highest reported Maine counties in 2025 are Aroostook (USD 107/ac), Franklin (USD 92/ac), Cumberland (USD 82/ac), Androscoggin (USD 45/ac), York (USD 45/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Waldo (USD 24/ac), Oxford (USD 26/ac), Somerset (USD 30/ac), Kennebec (USD 36/ac), Penobscot (USD 43/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

Maine cash rent by county (2025)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Androscoggin2025USD 45/acNASS county figure
Aroostook2025USD 107/acNASS county figure
Cumberland2025USD 82/acNASS county figure
Franklin2025USD 92/acNASS county figure
Kennebec2025USD 36/acNASS county figure
Oxford2025USD 26/acNASS county figure
Penobscot2025USD 43/acNASS county figure
Somerset2025USD 30/acNASS county figure
Waldo2025USD 24/acNASS county figure
York2025USD 45/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 80/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

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

The 2026 state average is USD 80/ac, up USD 2/ac from 2025. The trend line below uses NASS state rows so it stays stable even when individual county suppression changes year to year.

Maine non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 85 55 2022 60 2023 69 2024 76 2025 78 2026 80
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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Start with the Maine county benchmark, then let Scout read the parcel's soils, acreage, flood, wetlands, CRP fit, and energy context.

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