County cash rent

New York Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 45 New York county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2025. The 2026 state average is USD 89/ac, up USD 6/ac from 2025.

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

The five highest reported New York counties in 2025 are Livingston (USD 154/ac), Suffolk (USD 140/ac), Fulton (USD 139/ac), Orleans (USD 125/ac), Genesee (USD 123/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Schoharie (USD 29/ac), Greene (USD 36/ac), Tioga (USD 37/ac), Dutchess (USD 41/ac), Otsego (USD 42/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

New York cash rent by county (2025)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Allegany2025USD 88/acNASS county figure
Broome2025USD 70/acNASS county figure
Cayuga2025USD 113/acNASS county figure
Chautauqua2025USD 80/acNASS county figure
Chemung2025USD 65/acNASS county figure
Chenango2025USD 62/acNASS county figure
Clinton2025USD 55/acNASS county figure
Columbia2025USD 46/acNASS county figure
Cortland2025USD 73/acNASS county figure
Delaware2025USD 45/acNASS county figure
Dutchess2025USD 41/acNASS county figure
Erie2025USD 79/acNASS county figure
Franklin2025USD 77/acNASS county figure
Fulton2025USD 139/acNASS county figure
Genesee2025USD 123/acNASS county figure
Greene2025USD 36/acNASS county figure
Herkimer2025USD 51/acNASS county figure
Jefferson2025USD 47/acNASS county figure
Lewis2025USD 72/acNASS county figure
Livingston2025USD 154/acNASS county figure
Madison2025USD 64/acNASS county figure
Monroe2025USD 92/acNASS county figure
Montgomery2025USD 69/acNASS county figure
Niagara2025USD 73/acNASS county figure
Oneida2025USD 57/acNASS county figure
Onondaga2025USD 80/acNASS county figure
Ontario2025USD 91/acNASS county figure
Orleans2025USD 125/acNASS county figure
Oswego2025USD 46/acNASS county figure
Otsego2025USD 42/acNASS county figure
Rensselaer2025USD 64/acNASS county figure
Saratoga2025USD 60/acNASS county figure
Schoharie2025USD 29/acNASS county figure
Schuyler2025USD 51/acNASS county figure
Seneca2025USD 65/acNASS county figure
St Lawrence2025USD 71/acNASS county figure
Steuben2025USD 47/acNASS county figure
Suffolk2025USD 140/acNASS county figure
Tioga2025USD 37/acNASS county figure
Tompkins2025USD 65/acNASS county figure
Ulster2025USD 75/acNASS county figure
Washington2025USD 69/acNASS county figure
Wayne2025USD 110/acNASS county figure
Wyoming2025USD 110/acNASS county figure
Yates2025USD 120/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 89/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

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

The 2026 state average is USD 89/ac, up USD 6/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 York non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 95 70 2022 76 2023 79 2024 83 2025 83 2026 89
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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