County cash rent

Maryland Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 19 Maryland county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2025. The 2026 state average is USD 129/ac, up USD 9/ac from 2025.

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

The five highest reported Maryland counties in 2025 are Kent (USD 181/ac), Queen Annes (USD 167/ac), Baltimore (USD 161/ac), Talbot (USD 139/ac), Caroline (USD 137/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Prince Georges (USD 41/ac), St Marys (USD 47/ac), Charles (USD 51/ac), Garrett (USD 52/ac), Calvert (USD 70/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

Maryland cash rent by county (2025)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Baltimore2025USD 161/acNASS county figure
Calvert2025USD 70/acNASS county figure
Caroline2025USD 137/acNASS county figure
Cecil2025USD 134/acNASS county figure
Charles2025USD 51/acNASS county figure
Dorchester2025USD 109/acNASS county figure
Frederick2025USD 114/acNASS county figure
Garrett2025USD 52/acNASS county figure
Harford2025USD 129/acNASS county figure
Kent2025USD 181/acNASS county figure
Montgomery2025USD 118/acNASS county figure
Prince Georges2025USD 41/acNASS county figure
Queen Annes2025USD 167/acNASS county figure
Somerset2025USD 107/acNASS county figure
St Marys2025USD 47/acNASS county figure
Talbot2025USD 139/acNASS county figure
Washington2025USD 120/acNASS county figure
Wicomico2025USD 106/acNASS county figure
Worcester2025USD 105/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 129/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

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

The 2026 state average is USD 129/ac, up USD 9/ac from 2025. The trend line below uses NASS state rows so it stays stable even when individual county suppression changes year to year.

Maryland non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 135 105 2022 111 2023 117 2024 124 2025 120 2026 129
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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