County cash rent

North Carolina Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 89 North Carolina county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2025. The 2026 state average is USD 104/ac, down USD 1/ac from 2025.

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

The five highest reported North Carolina counties in 2025 are Hyde (USD 188/ac), Tyrrell (USD 171/ac), Wilson (USD 155/ac), Washington (USD 139/ac), Wayne (USD 135/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Polk (USD 34/ac), Caswell (USD 36/ac), Yancey (USD 36/ac), Gaston (USD 37/ac), Burke (USD 39/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

North Carolina cash rent by county (2025)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Alamance2025USD 46/acNASS county figure
Alexander2025USD 54/acNASS county figure
Alleghany2025USD 109/acNASS county figure
Anson2025USD 81/acNASS county figure
Ashe2025USD 98/acNASS county figure
Beaufort2025USD 133/acNASS county figure
Bertie2025USD 123/acNASS county figure
Bladen2025USD 84/acNASS county figure
Brunswick2025USD 83/acNASS county figure
Buncombe2025USD 51/acNASS county figure
Burke2025USD 39/acNASS county figure
Cabarrus2025USD 79/acNASS county figure
Camden2025USD 120/acNASS county figure
Carteret2025USD 89/acNASS county figure
Caswell2025USD 36/acNASS county figure
Catawba2025USD 39/acNASS county figure
Chatham2025USD 45/acNASS county figure
Cherokee2025USD 65/acNASS county figure
Chowan2025USD 107/acNASS county figure
Cleveland2025USD 40/acNASS county figure
Columbus2025USD 86/acNASS county figure
Craven2025USD 95/acNASS county figure
Cumberland2025USD 95/acNASS county figure
Currituck2025USD 100/acNASS county figure
Davidson2025USD 58/acNASS county figure
Davie2025USD 66/acNASS county figure
Duplin2025USD 90/acNASS county figure
Durham2025USD 44/acNASS county figure
Edgecombe2025USD 117/acNASS county figure
Forsyth2025USD 62/acNASS county figure
Franklin2025USD 70/acNASS county figure
Gaston2025USD 37/acNASS county figure
Gates2025USD 102/acNASS county figure
Granville2025USD 76/acNASS county figure
Greene2025USD 125/acNASS county figure
Guilford2025USD 39/acNASS county figure
Halifax2025USD 123/acNASS county figure
Harnett2025USD 111/acNASS county figure
Haywood2025USD 60/acNASS county figure
Hertford2025USD 122/acNASS county figure
Hoke2025USD 61/acNASS county figure
Hyde2025USD 188/acNASS county figure
Iredell2025USD 76/acNASS county figure
Jackson2025USD 59/acNASS county figure
Johnston2025USD 115/acNASS county figure
Jones2025USD 91/acNASS county figure
Lee2025USD 89/acNASS county figure
Lenoir2025USD 120/acNASS county figure
Lincoln2025USD 44/acNASS county figure
Macon2025USD 54/acNASS county figure
Madison2025USD 73/acNASS county figure
Martin2025USD 118/acNASS county figure
Montgomery2025USD 39/acNASS county figure
Moore2025USD 55/acNASS county figure
Nash2025USD 115/acNASS county figure
Northampton2025USD 113/acNASS county figure
Onslow2025USD 110/acNASS county figure
Orange2025USD 40/acNASS county figure
Pamlico2025USD 100/acNASS county figure
Pasquotank2025USD 124/acNASS county figure
Pender2025USD 83/acNASS county figure
Perquimans2025USD 102/acNASS county figure
Person2025USD 59/acNASS county figure
Pitt2025USD 113/acNASS county figure
Polk2025USD 34/acNASS county figure
Randolph2025USD 72/acNASS county figure
Richmond2025USD 49/acNASS county figure
Robeson2025USD 78/acNASS county figure
Rockingham2025USD 57/acNASS county figure
Rowan2025USD 70/acNASS county figure
Rutherford2025USD 48/acNASS county figure
Sampson2025USD 110/acNASS county figure
Scotland2025USD 71/acNASS county figure
Stanly2025USD 84/acNASS county figure
Stokes2025USD 56/acNASS county figure
Surry2025USD 82/acNASS county figure
Transylvania2025USD 88/acNASS county figure
Tyrrell2025USD 171/acNASS county figure
Union2025USD 93/acNASS county figure
Vance2025USD 47/acNASS county figure
Wake2025USD 73/acNASS county figure
Warren2025USD 48/acNASS county figure
Washington2025USD 139/acNASS county figure
Watauga2025USD 66/acNASS county figure
Wayne2025USD 135/acNASS county figure
Wilkes2025USD 69/acNASS county figure
Wilson2025USD 155/acNASS county figure
Yadkin2025USD 84/acNASS county figure
Yancey2025USD 36/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 104/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

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

The 2026 state average is USD 104/ac, down USD 1/ac from 2025. The trend line below uses NASS state rows so it stays stable even when individual county suppression changes year to year.

North Carolina non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 110 95 2022 99 2023 100 2024 100 2025 105 2026 104
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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Start with the North Carolina county benchmark, then let Scout read the parcel's soils, acreage, flood, wetlands, CRP fit, and energy context.

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