County cash rent

Vermont Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 8 Vermont county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2025. The 2026 state average is USD 68/ac, unchanged from 2025.

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

The five highest reported Vermont counties in 2025 are Franklin (USD 97/ac), Orange (USD 68/ac), Addison (USD 63/ac), Lamoille (USD 62/ac), Orleans (USD 55/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Chittenden (USD 37/ac), Caledonia (USD 42/ac), Rutland (USD 49/ac), Orleans (USD 55/ac), Lamoille (USD 62/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

Vermont cash rent by county (2025)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Addison2025USD 63/acNASS county figure
Caledonia2025USD 42/acNASS county figure
Chittenden2025USD 37/acNASS county figure
Franklin2025USD 97/acNASS county figure
Lamoille2025USD 62/acNASS county figure
Orange2025USD 68/acNASS county figure
Orleans2025USD 55/acNASS county figure
Rutland2025USD 49/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 68/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

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

The 2026 state average is USD 68/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.

Vermont non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 70 55 2022 58 2023 60 2024 64 2025 68 2026 68
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 Vermont county benchmark, then let Scout read the parcel's soils, acreage, flood, wetlands, CRP fit, and energy context.

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