County cash rent

Massachusetts Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 8 Massachusetts county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2025. The 2026 state average is USD 98/ac, up USD 9/ac from 2025.

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

The five highest reported Massachusetts counties in 2025 are Hampshire (USD 144/ac), Franklin (USD 124/ac), Hampden (USD 112/ac), Bristol (USD 111/ac), Middlesex (USD 71/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Worcester (USD 52/ac), Berkshire (USD 69/ac), Plymouth (USD 69/ac), Middlesex (USD 71/ac), Bristol (USD 111/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

Massachusetts cash rent by county (2025)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Berkshire2025USD 69/acNASS county figure
Bristol2025USD 111/acNASS county figure
Franklin2025USD 124/acNASS county figure
Hampden2025USD 112/acNASS county figure
Hampshire2025USD 144/acNASS county figure
Middlesex2025USD 71/acNASS county figure
Plymouth2025USD 69/acNASS county figure
Worcester2025USD 52/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 98/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

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

The 2026 state average is USD 98/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.

Massachusetts non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 100 85 2022 88 2023 91 2024 92 2025 89 2026 98
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 Massachusetts county benchmark, then let Scout read the parcel's soils, acreage, flood, wetlands, CRP fit, and energy context.

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