County cash rent

Mississippi Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 71 Mississippi county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2026. The 2026 state average is USD 103/ac, up USD 3/ac from 2025.

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

Free in Mississippi: 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 Mississippi county is live.

The five highest reported Mississippi counties in 2026 are Washington (USD 172/ac), Coahoma (USD 155/ac), Warren (USD 155/ac), Humphreys (USD 153/ac), Issaquena (USD 153/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Kemper (USD 11/ac), Wilkinson (USD 15/ac), Lawrence (USD 19/ac), Jasper (USD 20/ac), Amite (USD 21/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

Mississippi cash rent by county (2026)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Alcorn2026USD 60/acNASS county figure
Amite2026USD 21/acNASS county figure
Attala2026USD 85/acNASS county figure
Benton2026USD 77/acNASS county figure
Bolivar2026USD 123/acNASS county figure
Calhoun2026USD 132/acNASS county figure
Carroll2026USD 77/acNASS county figure
Chickasaw2026USD 89/acNASS county figure
Choctaw2026USD 31/acNASS county figure
Claiborne2026USD 102/acNASS county figure
Clarke2026USD 23/acNASS county figure
Clay2026USD 30/acNASS county figure
Coahoma2026USD 155/acNASS county figure
Copiah2026USD 73/acNASS county figure
Covington2026USD 60/acNASS county figure
De Soto2026USD 110/acNASS county figure
Franklin2026USD 22/acNASS county figure
George2026USD 59/acNASS county figure
Greene2026USD 29/acNASS county figure
Grenada2026USD 112/acNASS county figure
Hinds2026USD 66/acNASS county figure
Holmes2026USD 146/acNASS county figure
Humphreys2026USD 153/acNASS county figure
Issaquena2026USD 153/acNASS county figure
Jasper2026USD 20/acNASS county figure
Jefferson2026USD 50/acNASS county figure
Jefferson Davis2026USD 22/acNASS county figure
Jones2026USD 42/acNASS county figure
Kemper2026USD 11/acNASS county figure
Lafayette2026USD 101/acNASS county figure
Lamar2026USD 35/acNASS county figure
Lawrence2026USD 19/acNASS county figure
Leake2026USD 41/acNASS county figure
Lee2026USD 90/acNASS county figure
Leflore2026USD 140/acNASS county figure
Lincoln2026USD 26/acNASS county figure
Lowndes2026USD 48/acNASS county figure
Madison2026USD 70/acNASS county figure
Marion2026USD 44/acNASS county figure
Marshall2026USD 79/acNASS county figure
Monroe2026USD 83/acNASS county figure
Montgomery2026USD 100/acNASS county figure
Neshoba2026USD 23/acNASS county figure
Newton2026USD 32/acNASS county figure
Noxubee2026USD 81/acNASS county figure
Oktibbeha2026USD 55/acNASS county figure
Panola2026USD 120/acNASS county figure
Pearl River2026USD 45/acNASS county figure
Pike2026USD 32/acNASS county figure
Pontotoc2026USD 67/acNASS county figure
Prentiss2026USD 66/acNASS county figure
Quitman2026USD 111/acNASS county figure
Rankin2026USD 70/acNASS county figure
Scott2026USD 46/acNASS county figure
Sharkey2026USD 145/acNASS county figure
Smith2026USD 31/acNASS county figure
Sunflower2026USD 123/acNASS county figure
Tallahatchie2026USD 147/acNASS county figure
Tate2026USD 74/acNASS county figure
Tippah2026USD 65/acNASS county figure
Tishomingo2026USD 40/acNASS county figure
Tunica2026USD 98/acNASS county figure
Union2026USD 66/acNASS county figure
Walthall2026USD 25/acNASS county figure
Warren2026USD 155/acNASS county figure
Washington2026USD 172/acNASS county figure
Wayne2026USD 23/acNASS county figure
Webster2026USD 125/acNASS county figure
Wilkinson2026USD 15/acNASS county figure
Yalobusha2026USD 104/acNASS county figure
Yazoo2026USD 152/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 103/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

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

The 2026 state average is USD 103/ac, up USD 3/ac from 2025. The trend line below uses NASS state rows so it stays stable even when individual county suppression changes year to year.

Mississippi non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 105 90 2022 93 2023 96 2024 99 2025 100 2026 103
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 Mississippi state average is not your number.

Mississippi state average, 2026

$103/ac

USDA NASS, non-irrigated cropland

Your parcel

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

Analyze Mississippi 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.