County cash rent

New Jersey Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 10 New Jersey county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2025. The 2026 state average is USD 85/ac, up USD 11/ac from 2025.

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The five highest reported New Jersey counties in 2025 are Warren (USD 91/ac), Gloucester (USD 89/ac), Monmouth (USD 89/ac), Salem (USD 88/ac), Cumberland (USD 85/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Sussex (USD 42/ac), Hunterdon (USD 52/ac), Mercer (USD 55/ac), Middlesex (USD 62/ac), Burlington (USD 79/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

New Jersey cash rent by county (2025)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Burlington2025USD 79/acNASS county figure
Cumberland2025USD 85/acNASS county figure
Gloucester2025USD 89/acNASS county figure
Hunterdon2025USD 52/acNASS county figure
Mercer2025USD 55/acNASS county figure
Middlesex2025USD 62/acNASS county figure
Monmouth2025USD 89/acNASS county figure
Salem2025USD 88/acNASS county figure
Sussex2025USD 42/acNASS county figure
Warren2025USD 91/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 85/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

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

The 2026 state average is USD 85/ac, up USD 11/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 Jersey non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 90 65 2022 76 2023 71 2024 73 2025 74 2026 85
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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