County cash rent

Tennessee Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 88 Tennessee county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2026. The 2026 state average is USD 118/ac, up USD 3/ac from 2025.

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

Free in Tennessee: 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 Tennessee county is live.

The five highest reported Tennessee counties in 2026 are Lake (USD 196/ac), Robertson (USD 187/ac), Sumner (USD 180/ac), Obion (USD 178/ac), Franklin (USD 173/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Scott (USD 20/ac), Hancock (USD 23/ac), Meigs (USD 25/ac), Union (USD 25/ac), Hawkins (USD 26/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

Tennessee cash rent by county (2026)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Anderson2026USD 27/acNASS county figure
Bedford2026USD 82/acNASS county figure
Benton2026USD 73/acNASS county figure
Bledsoe2026USD 80/acNASS county figure
Blount2026USD 56/acNASS county figure
Bradley2026USD 38/acNASS county figure
Cannon2026USD 94/acNASS county figure
Carroll2026USD 127/acNASS county figure
Carter2026USD 35/acNASS county figure
Chester2026USD 92/acNASS county figure
Claiborne2026USD 29/acNASS county figure
Clay2026USD 40/acNASS county figure
Cocke2026USD 75/acNASS county figure
Coffee2026USD 131/acNASS county figure
Crockett2026USD 143/acNASS county figure
Cumberland2026USD 94/acNASS county figure
De Kalb2026USD 106/acNASS county figure
Decatur2026USD 75/acNASS county figure
Dickson2026USD 61/acNASS county figure
Dyer2026USD 161/acNASS county figure
Fayette2026USD 105/acNASS county figure
Fentress2026USD 40/acNASS county figure
Franklin2026USD 173/acNASS county figure
Gibson2026USD 153/acNASS county figure
Giles2026USD 65/acNASS county figure
Grainger2026USD 27/acNASS county figure
Greene2026USD 57/acNASS county figure
Grundy2026USD 54/acNASS county figure
Hamblen2026USD 49/acNASS county figure
Hamilton2026USD 29/acNASS county figure
Hancock2026USD 23/acNASS county figure
Hardeman2026USD 110/acNASS county figure
Hardin2026USD 92/acNASS county figure
Hawkins2026USD 26/acNASS county figure
Haywood2026USD 152/acNASS county figure
Henderson2026USD 93/acNASS county figure
Henry2026USD 141/acNASS county figure
Hickman2026USD 40/acNASS county figure
Houston2026USD 65/acNASS county figure
Humphreys2026USD 62/acNASS county figure
Jackson2026USD 40/acNASS county figure
Jefferson2026USD 58/acNASS county figure
Johnson2026USD 30/acNASS county figure
Knox2026USD 36/acNASS county figure
Lake2026USD 196/acNASS county figure
Lauderdale2026USD 135/acNASS county figure
Lawrence2026USD 131/acNASS county figure
Lewis2026USD 31/acNASS county figure
Lincoln2026USD 155/acNASS county figure
Loudon2026USD 70/acNASS county figure
Macon2026USD 135/acNASS county figure
Madison2026USD 142/acNASS county figure
Marion2026USD 59/acNASS county figure
Marshall2026USD 70/acNASS county figure
Maury2026USD 87/acNASS county figure
Mcminn2026USD 70/acNASS county figure
Mcnairy2026USD 65/acNASS county figure
Meigs2026USD 25/acNASS county figure
Monroe2026USD 53/acNASS county figure
Montgomery2026USD 132/acNASS county figure
Moore2026USD 55/acNASS county figure
Morgan2026USD 53/acNASS county figure
Obion2026USD 178/acNASS county figure
Overton2026USD 69/acNASS county figure
Perry2026USD 94/acNASS county figure
Pickett2026USD 40/acNASS county figure
Putnam2026USD 75/acNASS county figure
Rhea2026USD 26/acNASS county figure
Roane2026USD 38/acNASS county figure
Robertson2026USD 187/acNASS county figure
Rutherford2026USD 65/acNASS county figure
Scott2026USD 20/acNASS county figure
Sevier2026USD 35/acNASS county figure
Smith2026USD 130/acNASS county figure
Stewart2026USD 65/acNASS county figure
Sullivan2026USD 35/acNASS county figure
Sumner2026USD 180/acNASS county figure
Tipton2026USD 156/acNASS county figure
Trousdale2026USD 41/acNASS county figure
Unicoi2026USD 59/acNASS county figure
Union2026USD 25/acNASS county figure
Warren2026USD 115/acNASS county figure
Washington2026USD 64/acNASS county figure
Wayne2026USD 73/acNASS county figure
Weakley2026USD 145/acNASS county figure
White2026USD 57/acNASS county figure
Williamson2026USD 53/acNASS county figure
Wilson2026USD 56/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 October 2026. Labeled Measured.

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.

County average vs. a real parcel

The Tennessee state average is not your number.

Tennessee state average, 2026

$118/ac

USDA NASS, non-irrigated cropland

Your parcel

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

Analyze Tennessee 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.