County cash rent

South Carolina Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 38 South Carolina county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2026. The 2026 state average is USD 50/ac, unchanged from 2025.

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

Free in South 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 South Carolina county is live.

The five highest reported South Carolina counties in 2026 are Horry (USD 75/ac), Marion (USD 64/ac), Dillon (USD 61/ac), Marlboro (USD 60/ac), Calhoun (USD 54/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Greenwood (USD 15/ac), Union (USD 15/ac), Laurens (USD 20/ac), Abbeville (USD 21/ac), Chester (USD 22/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

South Carolina cash rent by county (2026)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Abbeville2026USD 21/acNASS county figure
Aiken2026USD 41/acNASS county figure
Allendale2026USD 38/acNASS county figure
Anderson2026USD 24/acNASS county figure
Bamberg2026USD 39/acNASS county figure
Barnwell2026USD 44/acNASS county figure
Berkeley2026USD 27/acNASS county figure
Calhoun2026USD 54/acNASS county figure
Cherokee2026USD 29/acNASS county figure
Chester2026USD 22/acNASS county figure
Chesterfield2026USD 48/acNASS county figure
Clarendon2026USD 54/acNASS county figure
Colleton2026USD 43/acNASS county figure
Darlington2026USD 47/acNASS county figure
Dillon2026USD 61/acNASS county figure
Dorchester2026USD 45/acNASS county figure
Florence2026USD 47/acNASS county figure
Georgetown2026USD 39/acNASS county figure
Greenville2026USD 28/acNASS county figure
Greenwood2026USD 15/acNASS county figure
Hampton2026USD 49/acNASS county figure
Horry2026USD 75/acNASS county figure
Lancaster2026USD 34/acNASS county figure
Laurens2026USD 20/acNASS county figure
Lee2026USD 52/acNASS county figure
Lexington2026USD 33/acNASS county figure
Marion2026USD 64/acNASS county figure
Marlboro2026USD 60/acNASS county figure
Oconee2026USD 33/acNASS county figure
Orangeburg2026USD 50/acNASS county figure
Pickens2026USD 29/acNASS county figure
Richland2026USD 42/acNASS county figure
Saluda2026USD 33/acNASS county figure
Spartanburg2026USD 27/acNASS county figure
Sumter2026USD 50/acNASS county figure
Union2026USD 15/acNASS county figure
Williamsburg2026USD 40/acNASS county figure
York2026USD 34/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 50/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

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

The 2026 state average is USD 50/ac, unchanged from 2025. The trend line below uses NASS state rows so it stays stable even when individual county suppression changes year to year.

South Carolina non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 55 45 2022 48 2023 49 2024 48 2025 50 2026 50
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 South Carolina state average is not your number.

South Carolina state average, 2026

$50/ac

USDA NASS, non-irrigated cropland

Your parcel

Run your own parcel to see the gap. Every South 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 South Carolina county benchmark, then let Scout read the parcel's soils, acreage, flood, wetlands, CRP fit, and energy context.

Analyze South 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.