County cash rent

Montana Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 44 Montana county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2025. The 2026 state average is USD 33/ac, unchanged from 2025.

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

The five highest reported Montana counties in 2025 are Cascade (USD 45/ac), Flathead (USD 45/ac), Pondera (USD 42/ac), Sheridan (USD 40/ac), Teton (USD 39/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Treasure (USD 8/ac), Petroleum (USD 18/ac), Powder River (USD 18/ac), Wheatland (USD 18/ac), Stillwater (USD 21/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

Montana cash rent by county (2025)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Big Horn2025USD 30/acNASS county figure
Blaine2025USD 28/acNASS county figure
Carbon2025USD 30/acNASS county figure
Carter2025USD 22/acNASS county figure
Cascade2025USD 45/acNASS county figure
Chouteau2025USD 37/acNASS county figure
Daniels2025USD 32/acNASS county figure
Dawson2025USD 33/acNASS county figure
Fallon2025USD 26/acNASS county figure
Fergus2025USD 31/acNASS county figure
Flathead2025USD 45/acNASS county figure
Gallatin2025USD 38/acNASS county figure
Garfield2025USD 26/acNASS county figure
Glacier2025USD 29/acNASS county figure
Golden Valley2025USD 25/acNASS county figure
Hill2025USD 31/acNASS county figure
Jefferson2025USD 26/acNASS county figure
Judith Basin2025USD 34/acNASS county figure
Lake2025USD 31/acNASS county figure
Lewis And Clark2025USD 36/acNASS county figure
Liberty2025USD 29/acNASS county figure
Mccone2025USD 30/acNASS county figure
Missoula2025USD 35/acNASS county figure
Musselshell2025USD 27/acNASS county figure
Park2025USD 36/acNASS county figure
Petroleum2025USD 18/acNASS county figure
Phillips2025USD 25/acNASS county figure
Pondera2025USD 42/acNASS county figure
Powder River2025USD 18/acNASS county figure
Powell2025USD 28/acNASS county figure
Prairie2025USD 37/acNASS county figure
Richland2025USD 29/acNASS county figure
Roosevelt2025USD 33/acNASS county figure
Rosebud2025USD 29/acNASS county figure
Sanders2025USD 22/acNASS county figure
Sheridan2025USD 40/acNASS county figure
Stillwater2025USD 21/acNASS county figure
Teton2025USD 39/acNASS county figure
Toole2025USD 34/acNASS county figure
Treasure2025USD 8/acNASS county figure
Valley2025USD 31/acNASS county figure
Wheatland2025USD 18/acNASS county figure
Wibaux2025USD 30/acNASS county figure
Yellowstone2025USD 27/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 33/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

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

The 2026 state average is USD 33/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.

Montana non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 35 25 2022 31 2023 30 2024 31 2025 33 2026 33
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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