County cash rent

North Carolina Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 86 North Carolina county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2026. 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.

Free in North Carolina: outline your field on the map and see three uses for those acres side by side (farming it, cash rent, and a solar or wind lease, with CRP shown as paused while new enrollment is). Parcel maps you tap to select are Ohio and Indiana only for now. Email me when my North Carolina county is live.

The five highest reported North Carolina counties in 2026 are Hyde (USD 182/ac), Tyrrell (USD 181/ac), Wilson (USD 154/ac), Greene (USD 136/ac), Washington (USD 136/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Polk (USD 33/ac), Gaston (USD 35/ac), Chatham (USD 41/ac), Caswell (USD 42/ac), Burke (USD 43/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

North Carolina cash rent by county (2026)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Alamance2026USD 53/acNASS county figure
Alexander2026USD 56/acNASS county figure
Alleghany2026USD 99/acNASS county figure
Anson2026USD 72/acNASS county figure
Ashe2026USD 92/acNASS county figure
Avery2026USD 80/acNASS county figure
Beaufort2026USD 130/acNASS county figure
Bertie2026USD 133/acNASS county figure
Bladen2026USD 83/acNASS county figure
Brunswick2026USD 78/acNASS county figure
Buncombe2026USD 46/acNASS county figure
Burke2026USD 43/acNASS county figure
Cabarrus2026USD 70/acNASS county figure
Carteret2026USD 88/acNASS county figure
Caswell2026USD 42/acNASS county figure
Catawba2026USD 47/acNASS county figure
Chatham2026USD 41/acNASS county figure
Cherokee2026USD 74/acNASS county figure
Chowan2026USD 99/acNASS county figure
Cleveland2026USD 43/acNASS county figure
Columbus2026USD 86/acNASS county figure
Craven2026USD 93/acNASS county figure
Cumberland2026USD 105/acNASS county figure
Currituck2026USD 98/acNASS county figure
Davidson2026USD 50/acNASS county figure
Davie2026USD 67/acNASS county figure
Duplin2026USD 89/acNASS county figure
Durham2026USD 47/acNASS county figure
Edgecombe2026USD 122/acNASS county figure
Forsyth2026USD 72/acNASS county figure
Franklin2026USD 66/acNASS county figure
Gaston2026USD 35/acNASS county figure
Gates2026USD 112/acNASS county figure
Granville2026USD 66/acNASS county figure
Greene2026USD 136/acNASS county figure
Guilford2026USD 44/acNASS county figure
Halifax2026USD 121/acNASS county figure
Harnett2026USD 121/acNASS county figure
Haywood2026USD 69/acNASS county figure
Henderson2026USD 117/acNASS county figure
Hertford2026USD 115/acNASS county figure
Hyde2026USD 182/acNASS county figure
Iredell2026USD 86/acNASS county figure
Johnston2026USD 114/acNASS county figure
Lee2026USD 80/acNASS county figure
Lenoir2026USD 126/acNASS county figure
Lincoln2026USD 49/acNASS county figure
Madison2026USD 74/acNASS county figure
Martin2026USD 116/acNASS county figure
Mcdowell2026USD 67/acNASS county figure
Mitchell2026USD 56/acNASS county figure
Montgomery2026USD 46/acNASS county figure
Moore2026USD 59/acNASS county figure
Nash2026USD 126/acNASS county figure
Northampton2026USD 116/acNASS county figure
Onslow2026USD 109/acNASS county figure
Orange2026USD 45/acNASS county figure
Pamlico2026USD 99/acNASS county figure
Pasquotank2026USD 135/acNASS county figure
Pender2026USD 93/acNASS county figure
Perquimans2026USD 112/acNASS county figure
Person2026USD 68/acNASS county figure
Pitt2026USD 123/acNASS county figure
Polk2026USD 33/acNASS county figure
Randolph2026USD 68/acNASS county figure
Robeson2026USD 75/acNASS county figure
Rockingham2026USD 49/acNASS county figure
Rowan2026USD 74/acNASS county figure
Rutherford2026USD 44/acNASS county figure
Sampson2026USD 120/acNASS county figure
Scotland2026USD 71/acNASS county figure
Stanly2026USD 83/acNASS county figure
Stokes2026USD 50/acNASS county figure
Surry2026USD 92/acNASS county figure
Transylvania2026USD 100/acNASS county figure
Tyrrell2026USD 181/acNASS county figure
Union2026USD 105/acNASS county figure
Wake2026USD 83/acNASS county figure
Warren2026USD 48/acNASS county figure
Washington2026USD 136/acNASS county figure
Watauga2026USD 62/acNASS county figure
Wayne2026USD 134/acNASS county figure
Wilkes2026USD 62/acNASS county figure
Wilson2026USD 154/acNASS county figure
Yadkin2026USD 91/acNASS county figure
Yancey2026USD 45/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 October 2026. Labeled Measured.

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.

County average vs. a real parcel

The North Carolina state average is not your number.

North Carolina state average, 2026

$104/ac

USDA NASS, non-irrigated cropland

Your parcel

Run your own parcel to see the gap. Every North Carolina parcel reads differently on soil, drainage, and rotation.

Use the land's address. If it has no street address, open Scout to find or draw the parcel. No account needed; Scout asks for an email once, before it shows the analysis.

Every parcel-scale figure is a Scout free read; see how we get our numbers. The state average anchor is the USDA NASS 2026 survey for non-irrigated cropland.

Check the parcel, not just the county.

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

Analyze North Carolina farmland free

Free here: outline your field and see its three uses side by side, with CRP shown as paused. Parcel maps you tap to select are Ohio and Indiana only for now; get an email when your county is live.