County cash rent

Washington Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 23 Washington county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2025. The 2026 state average is USD 75/ac, down USD 1/ac from 2025.

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

The five highest reported Washington counties in 2025 are Skagit (USD 249/ac), Whatcom (USD 192/ac), Snohomish (USD 150/ac), King (USD 124/ac), Whitman (USD 86/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Klickitat (USD 28/ac), Douglas (USD 38/ac), Pend Oreille (USD 38/ac), Pacific (USD 39/ac), Franklin (USD 42/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

Washington cash rent by county (2025)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Adams2025USD 44/acNASS county figure
Asotin2025USD 53/acNASS county figure
Clark2025USD 85/acNASS county figure
Columbia2025USD 66/acNASS county figure
Cowlitz2025USD 45/acNASS county figure
Douglas2025USD 38/acNASS county figure
Franklin2025USD 42/acNASS county figure
Garfield2025USD 68/acNASS county figure
Grays Harbor2025USD 54/acNASS county figure
King2025USD 124/acNASS county figure
Klickitat2025USD 28/acNASS county figure
Lewis2025USD 58/acNASS county figure
Lincoln2025USD 44/acNASS county figure
Pacific2025USD 39/acNASS county figure
Pend Oreille2025USD 38/acNASS county figure
Skagit2025USD 249/acNASS county figure
Snohomish2025USD 150/acNASS county figure
Spokane2025USD 68/acNASS county figure
Stevens2025USD 44/acNASS county figure
Thurston2025USD 76/acNASS county figure
Walla Walla2025USD 74/acNASS county figure
Whatcom2025USD 192/acNASS county figure
Whitman2025USD 86/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 75/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

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

The 2026 state average is USD 75/ac, down USD 1/ac from 2025. The trend line below uses NASS state rows so it stays stable even when individual county suppression changes year to year.

Washington non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 80 70 2022 77 2023 76 2024 73 2025 76 2026 75
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 Washington county benchmark, then let Scout read the parcel's soils, acreage, flood, wetlands, CRP fit, and energy context.

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