County cash rent

South Carolina Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 36 South Carolina county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2025. 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.

The five highest reported South Carolina counties in 2025 are Horry (USD 78/ac), Marion (USD 61/ac), Marlboro (USD 61/ac), Dillon (USD 57/ac), Lee (USD 55/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Greenwood (USD 15/ac), Abbeville (USD 16/ac), Laurens (USD 16/ac), Chester (USD 21/ac), Anderson (USD 22/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

South Carolina cash rent by county (2025)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Abbeville2025USD 16/acNASS county figure
Aiken2025USD 35/acNASS county figure
Allendale2025USD 33/acNASS county figure
Anderson2025USD 22/acNASS county figure
Bamberg2025USD 40/acNASS county figure
Barnwell2025USD 41/acNASS county figure
Berkeley2025USD 24/acNASS county figure
Calhoun2025USD 52/acNASS county figure
Cherokee2025USD 24/acNASS county figure
Chester2025USD 21/acNASS county figure
Chesterfield2025USD 41/acNASS county figure
Clarendon2025USD 54/acNASS county figure
Colleton2025USD 43/acNASS county figure
Darlington2025USD 49/acNASS county figure
Dillon2025USD 57/acNASS county figure
Dorchester2025USD 49/acNASS county figure
Edgefield2025USD 26/acNASS county figure
Florence2025USD 49/acNASS county figure
Georgetown2025USD 40/acNASS county figure
Greenville2025USD 23/acNASS county figure
Greenwood2025USD 15/acNASS county figure
Hampton2025USD 45/acNASS county figure
Horry2025USD 78/acNASS county figure
Laurens2025USD 16/acNASS county figure
Lee2025USD 55/acNASS county figure
Lexington2025USD 26/acNASS county figure
Marion2025USD 61/acNASS county figure
Marlboro2025USD 61/acNASS county figure
Newberry2025USD 35/acNASS county figure
Orangeburg2025USD 47/acNASS county figure
Pickens2025USD 33/acNASS county figure
Saluda2025USD 32/acNASS county figure
Spartanburg2025USD 33/acNASS county figure
Sumter2025USD 51/acNASS county figure
Williamsburg2025USD 42/acNASS county figure
York2025USD 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 August 2026. High confidence.

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.

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.

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