County cash rent

New Hampshire Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 7 New Hampshire county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2025. The 2026 state average is USD 64/ac, up USD 4/ac from 2025.

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

The five highest reported New Hampshire counties in 2025 are Rockingham (USD 122/ac), Cheshire (USD 82/ac), Sullivan (USD 80/ac), Hillsborough (USD 69/ac), Merrimack (USD 69/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Coos (USD 39/ac), Grafton (USD 58/ac), Hillsborough (USD 69/ac), Merrimack (USD 69/ac), Sullivan (USD 80/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

New Hampshire cash rent by county (2025)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Cheshire2025USD 82/acNASS county figure
Coos2025USD 39/acNASS county figure
Grafton2025USD 58/acNASS county figure
Hillsborough2025USD 69/acNASS county figure
Merrimack2025USD 69/acNASS county figure
Rockingham2025USD 122/acNASS county figure
Sullivan2025USD 80/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 64/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

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

The 2026 state average is USD 64/ac, up USD 4/ac from 2025. The trend line below uses NASS state rows so it stays stable even when individual county suppression changes year to year.

New Hampshire non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 70 45 2022 52 2023 51 2024 58 2025 60 2026 64
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.

Check the parcel, not just the county.

Start with the New Hampshire county benchmark, then let Scout read the parcel's soils, acreage, flood, wetlands, CRP fit, and energy context.

Analyze New Hampshire farmland free