County cash rent

Pennsylvania Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 57 Pennsylvania county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2025. The 2026 state average is USD 112/ac, up USD 3/ac from 2025.

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The five highest reported Pennsylvania counties in 2025 are Lancaster (USD 260/ac), Lebanon (USD 206/ac), Chester (USD 204/ac), Blair (USD 172/ac), Franklin (USD 158/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Sullivan (USD 18/ac), Mckean (USD 20/ac), Wayne (USD 21/ac), Clearfield (USD 22/ac), Susquehanna (USD 22/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

Pennsylvania cash rent by county (2025)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Adams2025USD 90/acNASS county figure
Armstrong2025USD 36/acNASS county figure
Beaver2025USD 65/acNASS county figure
Bedford2025USD 65/acNASS county figure
Blair2025USD 172/acNASS county figure
Bradford2025USD 37/acNASS county figure
Bucks2025USD 52/acNASS county figure
Butler2025USD 39/acNASS county figure
Cambria2025USD 48/acNASS county figure
Carbon2025USD 64/acNASS county figure
Centre2025USD 92/acNASS county figure
Chester2025USD 204/acNASS county figure
Clarion2025USD 28/acNASS county figure
Clearfield2025USD 22/acNASS county figure
Clinton2025USD 75/acNASS county figure
Columbia2025USD 80/acNASS county figure
Crawford2025USD 44/acNASS county figure
Cumberland2025USD 145/acNASS county figure
Dauphin2025USD 95/acNASS county figure
Erie2025USD 56/acNASS county figure
Fayette2025USD 30/acNASS county figure
Franklin2025USD 158/acNASS county figure
Fulton2025USD 95/acNASS county figure
Huntingdon2025USD 102/acNASS county figure
Indiana2025USD 46/acNASS county figure
Jefferson2025USD 30/acNASS county figure
Juniata2025USD 113/acNASS county figure
Lackawanna2025USD 39/acNASS county figure
Lancaster2025USD 260/acNASS county figure
Lawrence2025USD 52/acNASS county figure
Lebanon2025USD 206/acNASS county figure
Lehigh2025USD 119/acNASS county figure
Luzerne2025USD 64/acNASS county figure
Lycoming2025USD 73/acNASS county figure
Mckean2025USD 20/acNASS county figure
Mercer2025USD 58/acNASS county figure
Mifflin2025USD 114/acNASS county figure
Montgomery2025USD 73/acNASS county figure
Montour2025USD 110/acNASS county figure
Northampton2025USD 75/acNASS county figure
Northumberland2025USD 117/acNASS county figure
Perry2025USD 83/acNASS county figure
Potter2025USD 27/acNASS county figure
Schuylkill2025USD 80/acNASS county figure
Snyder2025USD 86/acNASS county figure
Somerset2025USD 36/acNASS county figure
Sullivan2025USD 18/acNASS county figure
Susquehanna2025USD 22/acNASS county figure
Tioga2025USD 40/acNASS county figure
Union2025USD 116/acNASS county figure
Venango2025USD 34/acNASS county figure
Warren2025USD 39/acNASS county figure
Washington2025USD 27/acNASS county figure
Wayne2025USD 21/acNASS county figure
Westmoreland2025USD 54/acNASS county figure
Wyoming2025USD 39/acNASS county figure
York2025USD 145/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 112/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

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

The 2026 state average is USD 112/ac, up USD 3/ac from 2025. The trend line below uses NASS state rows so it stays stable even when individual county suppression changes year to year.

Pennsylvania non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 115 95 2022 100 2023 106 2024 107 2025 109 2026 112
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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