County cash rent

Nebraska Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 78 Nebraska county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2025. The 2026 state average is USD 168/ac, up USD 2/ac from 2025.

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The five highest reported Nebraska counties in 2025 are Dakota (USD 293/ac), Cuming (USD 286/ac), Thurston (USD 276/ac), Wayne (USD 264/ac), Burt (USD 253/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Kimball (USD 28/ac), Banner (USD 30/ac), Dawes (USD 30/ac), Cheyenne (USD 38/ac), Mcpherson (USD 40/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

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Nebraska cash rent by county (2025)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Adams2025USD 138/acNASS county figure
Antelope2025USD 173/acNASS county figure
Banner2025USD 30/acNASS county figure
Boone2025USD 190/acNASS county figure
Box Butte2025USD 44/acNASS county figure
Boyd2025USD 118/acNASS county figure
Brown2025USD 62/acNASS county figure
Buffalo2025USD 129/acNASS county figure
Burt2025USD 253/acNASS county figure
Butler2025USD 217/acNASS county figure
Cass2025USD 230/acNASS county figure
Cedar2025USD 251/acNASS county figure
Chase2025USD 51/acNASS county figure
Cheyenne2025USD 38/acNASS county figure
Colfax2025USD 240/acNASS county figure
Cuming2025USD 286/acNASS county figure
Custer2025USD 98/acNASS county figure
Dakota2025USD 293/acNASS county figure
Dawes2025USD 30/acNASS county figure
Dawson2025USD 133/acNASS county figure
Deuel2025USD 41/acNASS county figure
Dixon2025USD 246/acNASS county figure
Dodge2025USD 227/acNASS county figure
Douglas2025USD 234/acNASS county figure
Dundy2025USD 41/acNASS county figure
Fillmore2025USD 161/acNASS county figure
Franklin2025USD 120/acNASS county figure
Frontier2025USD 61/acNASS county figure
Furnas2025USD 81/acNASS county figure
Gage2025USD 168/acNASS county figure
Garden2025USD 43/acNASS county figure
Gosper2025USD 83/acNASS county figure
Greeley2025USD 140/acNASS county figure
Hall2025USD 130/acNASS county figure
Harlan2025USD 108/acNASS county figure
Hayes2025USD 57/acNASS county figure
Hitchcock2025USD 54/acNASS county figure
Holt2025USD 94/acNASS county figure
Howard2025USD 135/acNASS county figure
Jefferson2025USD 160/acNASS county figure
Johnson2025USD 194/acNASS county figure
Kearney2025USD 136/acNASS county figure
Keith2025USD 57/acNASS county figure
Keya Paha2025USD 48/acNASS county figure
Kimball2025USD 28/acNASS county figure
Knox2025USD 223/acNASS county figure
Lancaster2025USD 181/acNASS county figure
Lincoln2025USD 59/acNASS county figure
Logan2025USD 46/acNASS county figure
Madison2025USD 215/acNASS county figure
Mcpherson2025USD 40/acNASS county figure
Morrill2025USD 40/acNASS county figure
Nance2025USD 181/acNASS county figure
Nemaha2025USD 212/acNASS county figure
Nuckolls2025USD 158/acNASS county figure
Otoe2025USD 194/acNASS county figure
Pawnee2025USD 160/acNASS county figure
Perkins2025USD 56/acNASS county figure
Phelps2025USD 111/acNASS county figure
Pierce2025USD 192/acNASS county figure
Platte2025USD 228/acNASS county figure
Polk2025USD 197/acNASS county figure
Red Willow2025USD 70/acNASS county figure
Richardson2025USD 202/acNASS county figure
Rock2025USD 42/acNASS county figure
Saline2025USD 164/acNASS county figure
Sarpy2025USD 249/acNASS county figure
Saunders2025USD 210/acNASS county figure
Seward2025USD 192/acNASS county figure
Sheridan2025USD 43/acNASS county figure
Sherman2025USD 123/acNASS county figure
Stanton2025USD 243/acNASS county figure
Thayer2025USD 137/acNASS county figure
Thurston2025USD 276/acNASS county figure
Washington2025USD 237/acNASS county figure
Wayne2025USD 264/acNASS county figure
Webster2025USD 127/acNASS county figure
York2025USD 164/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 168/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

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

The 2026 state average is USD 168/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.

Nebraska non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 175 160 2022 162 2023 164 2024 169 2025 166 2026 168
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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