County cash rent

South Dakota Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 64 South Dakota county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2025. The 2026 state average is USD 140/ac, up USD 4/ac from 2025.

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The five highest reported South Dakota counties in 2025 are Moody (USD 251/ac), Union (USD 235/ac), Lincoln (USD 232/ac), Clay (USD 213/ac), Minnehaha (USD 212/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Custer (USD 24/ac), Lawrence (USD 29/ac), Harding (USD 33/ac), Jones (USD 33/ac), Bennett (USD 34/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

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South Dakota cash rent by county (2025)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Aurora2025USD 127/acNASS county figure
Beadle2025USD 128/acNASS county figure
Bennett2025USD 34/acNASS county figure
Bon Homme2025USD 164/acNASS county figure
Brookings2025USD 207/acNASS county figure
Brown2025USD 165/acNASS county figure
Brule2025USD 114/acNASS county figure
Buffalo2025USD 75/acNASS county figure
Butte2025USD 57/acNASS county figure
Campbell2025USD 85/acNASS county figure
Charles Mix2025USD 145/acNASS county figure
Clark2025USD 151/acNASS county figure
Clay2025USD 213/acNASS county figure
Codington2025USD 176/acNASS county figure
Corson2025USD 46/acNASS county figure
Custer2025USD 24/acNASS county figure
Davison2025USD 159/acNASS county figure
Day2025USD 149/acNASS county figure
Deuel2025USD 182/acNASS county figure
Dewey2025USD 50/acNASS county figure
Douglas2025USD 144/acNASS county figure
Edmunds2025USD 119/acNASS county figure
Faulk2025USD 111/acNASS county figure
Grant2025USD 157/acNASS county figure
Gregory2025USD 80/acNASS county figure
Haakon2025USD 50/acNASS county figure
Hamlin2025USD 194/acNASS county figure
Hand2025USD 103/acNASS county figure
Hanson2025USD 184/acNASS county figure
Harding2025USD 33/acNASS county figure
Hughes2025USD 77/acNASS county figure
Hutchinson2025USD 172/acNASS county figure
Hyde2025USD 77/acNASS county figure
Jackson2025USD 48/acNASS county figure
Jerauld2025USD 112/acNASS county figure
Jones2025USD 33/acNASS county figure
Kingsbury2025USD 162/acNASS county figure
Lake2025USD 183/acNASS county figure
Lawrence2025USD 29/acNASS county figure
Lincoln2025USD 232/acNASS county figure
Lyman2025USD 94/acNASS county figure
Marshall2025USD 149/acNASS county figure
Mccook2025USD 193/acNASS county figure
Mcpherson2025USD 105/acNASS county figure
Meade2025USD 34/acNASS county figure
Mellette2025USD 43/acNASS county figure
Miner2025USD 146/acNASS county figure
Minnehaha2025USD 212/acNASS county figure
Moody2025USD 251/acNASS county figure
Pennington2025USD 38/acNASS county figure
Perkins2025USD 42/acNASS county figure
Potter2025USD 98/acNASS county figure
Roberts2025USD 174/acNASS county figure
Sanborn2025USD 129/acNASS county figure
Spink2025USD 126/acNASS county figure
Stanley2025USD 43/acNASS county figure
Sully2025USD 97/acNASS county figure
Todd2025USD 36/acNASS county figure
Tripp2025USD 72/acNASS county figure
Turner2025USD 198/acNASS county figure
Union2025USD 235/acNASS county figure
Walworth2025USD 98/acNASS county figure
Yankton2025USD 194/acNASS county figure
Ziebach2025USD 46/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 140/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

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

The 2026 state average is USD 140/ac, up USD 4/ac from 2025. The trend line below uses NASS state rows so it stays stable even when individual county suppression changes year to year.

South Dakota non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 145 120 2022 125 2023 126 2024 131 2025 136 2026 140
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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