County cash rent

West Virginia Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 26 West Virginia county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2025. The 2026 state average is USD 39/ac, down USD 6/ac from 2025.

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

The five highest reported West Virginia counties in 2025 are Mason (USD 102/ac), Jefferson (USD 72/ac), Grant (USD 57/ac), Jackson (USD 51/ac), Brooke (USD 50/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Morgan (USD 17/ac), Nicholas (USD 19/ac), Gilmer (USD 20/ac), Braxton (USD 21/ac), Barbour (USD 23/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

West Virginia cash rent by county (2025)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Barbour2025USD 23/acNASS county figure
Berkeley2025USD 45/acNASS county figure
Braxton2025USD 21/acNASS county figure
Brooke2025USD 50/acNASS county figure
Calhoun2025USD 27/acNASS county figure
Doddridge2025USD 37/acNASS county figure
Gilmer2025USD 20/acNASS county figure
Grant2025USD 57/acNASS county figure
Greenbrier2025USD 50/acNASS county figure
Hampshire2025USD 50/acNASS county figure
Hardy2025USD 41/acNASS county figure
Jackson2025USD 51/acNASS county figure
Jefferson2025USD 72/acNASS county figure
Marion2025USD 42/acNASS county figure
Mason2025USD 102/acNASS county figure
Mineral2025USD 25/acNASS county figure
Monroe2025USD 35/acNASS county figure
Morgan2025USD 17/acNASS county figure
Nicholas2025USD 19/acNASS county figure
Pendleton2025USD 47/acNASS county figure
Pocahontas2025USD 36/acNASS county figure
Preston2025USD 46/acNASS county figure
Raleigh2025USD 31/acNASS county figure
Randolph2025USD 48/acNASS county figure
Tucker2025USD 38/acNASS county figure
Wayne2025USD 31/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 39/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

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

The 2026 state average is USD 39/ac, down USD 6/ac from 2025. The trend line below uses NASS state rows so it stays stable even when individual county suppression changes year to year.

West Virginia non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 50 35 2022 42 2023 45 2024 47 2025 45 2026 39
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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