County cash rent

Tennessee Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 86 Tennessee county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2025. The 2026 state average is USD 118/ac, up USD 3/ac from 2025.

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The five highest reported Tennessee counties in 2025 are Robertson (USD 199/ac), Lake (USD 171/ac), Obion (USD 166/ac), Crockett (USD 156/ac), Montgomery (USD 156/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Claiborne (USD 21/ac), Campbell (USD 22/ac), Hancock (USD 22/ac), Knox (USD 24/ac), Bradley (USD 25/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

Tennessee cash rent by county (2025)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Anderson2025USD 28/acNASS county figure
Bedford2025USD 84/acNASS county figure
Benton2025USD 94/acNASS county figure
Bledsoe2025USD 58/acNASS county figure
Blount2025USD 56/acNASS county figure
Bradley2025USD 25/acNASS county figure
Campbell2025USD 22/acNASS county figure
Cannon2025USD 98/acNASS county figure
Carroll2025USD 135/acNASS county figure
Carter2025USD 35/acNASS county figure
Claiborne2025USD 21/acNASS county figure
Clay2025USD 43/acNASS county figure
Cocke2025USD 60/acNASS county figure
Coffee2025USD 113/acNASS county figure
Crockett2025USD 156/acNASS county figure
Cumberland2025USD 65/acNASS county figure
De Kalb2025USD 86/acNASS county figure
Decatur2025USD 87/acNASS county figure
Dickson2025USD 46/acNASS county figure
Dyer2025USD 141/acNASS county figure
Fayette2025USD 109/acNASS county figure
Fentress2025USD 42/acNASS county figure
Franklin2025USD 120/acNASS county figure
Gibson2025USD 153/acNASS county figure
Giles2025USD 79/acNASS county figure
Grainger2025USD 36/acNASS county figure
Greene2025USD 47/acNASS county figure
Hamblen2025USD 61/acNASS county figure
Hamilton2025USD 38/acNASS county figure
Hancock2025USD 22/acNASS county figure
Hardeman2025USD 95/acNASS county figure
Hardin2025USD 62/acNASS county figure
Hawkins2025USD 25/acNASS county figure
Haywood2025USD 153/acNASS county figure
Hickman2025USD 47/acNASS county figure
Houston2025USD 28/acNASS county figure
Humphreys2025USD 76/acNASS county figure
Jackson2025USD 54/acNASS county figure
Jefferson2025USD 46/acNASS county figure
Johnson2025USD 49/acNASS county figure
Knox2025USD 24/acNASS county figure
Lake2025USD 171/acNASS county figure
Lauderdale2025USD 138/acNASS county figure
Lawrence2025USD 104/acNASS county figure
Lewis2025USD 30/acNASS county figure
Lincoln2025USD 97/acNASS county figure
Loudon2025USD 55/acNASS county figure
Macon2025USD 147/acNASS county figure
Madison2025USD 129/acNASS county figure
Marion2025USD 58/acNASS county figure
Maury2025USD 90/acNASS county figure
Mcminn2025USD 65/acNASS county figure
Mcnairy2025USD 75/acNASS county figure
Meigs2025USD 60/acNASS county figure
Monroe2025USD 47/acNASS county figure
Montgomery2025USD 156/acNASS county figure
Moore2025USD 65/acNASS county figure
Morgan2025USD 50/acNASS county figure
Obion2025USD 166/acNASS county figure
Overton2025USD 53/acNASS county figure
Perry2025USD 75/acNASS county figure
Pickett2025USD 49/acNASS county figure
Polk2025USD 57/acNASS county figure
Putnam2025USD 48/acNASS county figure
Rhea2025USD 29/acNASS county figure
Roane2025USD 29/acNASS county figure
Robertson2025USD 199/acNASS county figure
Rutherford2025USD 77/acNASS county figure
Sequatchie2025USD 49/acNASS county figure
Sevier2025USD 41/acNASS county figure
Shelby2025USD 120/acNASS county figure
Smith2025USD 119/acNASS county figure
Stewart2025USD 86/acNASS county figure
Sullivan2025USD 39/acNASS county figure
Sumner2025USD 148/acNASS county figure
Tipton2025USD 154/acNASS county figure
Trousdale2025USD 42/acNASS county figure
Union2025USD 27/acNASS county figure
Van Buren2025USD 26/acNASS county figure
Warren2025USD 108/acNASS county figure
Washington2025USD 64/acNASS county figure
Wayne2025USD 59/acNASS county figure
Weakley2025USD 155/acNASS county figure
White2025USD 62/acNASS county figure
Williamson2025USD 55/acNASS county figure
Wilson2025USD 48/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 118/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

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

The 2026 state average is USD 118/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.

Tennessee non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 120 105 2022 111 2023 113 2024 117 2025 115 2026 118
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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Start with the Tennessee county benchmark, then let Scout read the parcel's soils, acreage, flood, wetlands, CRP fit, and energy context.

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