County cash rent

West Virginia Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 30 West Virginia county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2026. 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.

Free in West Virginia: 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 West Virginia county is live.

The five highest reported West Virginia counties in 2026 are Mason (USD 103/ac), Jefferson (USD 55/ac), Wood (USD 55/ac), Greenbrier (USD 51/ac), Mercer (USD 47/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Wirt (USD 12/ac), Roane (USD 16/ac), Monongalia (USD 18/ac), Harrison (USD 19/ac), Morgan (USD 21/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

West Virginia cash rent by county (2026)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Barbour2026USD 32/acNASS county figure
Berkeley2026USD 46/acNASS county figure
Braxton2026USD 29/acNASS county figure
Doddridge2026USD 26/acNASS county figure
Grant2026USD 27/acNASS county figure
Greenbrier2026USD 51/acNASS county figure
Hampshire2026USD 43/acNASS county figure
Hardy2026USD 45/acNASS county figure
Harrison2026USD 19/acNASS county figure
Jackson2026USD 25/acNASS county figure
Jefferson2026USD 55/acNASS county figure
Lewis2026USD 24/acNASS county figure
Marion2026USD 41/acNASS county figure
Mason2026USD 103/acNASS county figure
Mercer2026USD 47/acNASS county figure
Mineral2026USD 27/acNASS county figure
Monongalia2026USD 18/acNASS county figure
Monroe2026USD 37/acNASS county figure
Morgan2026USD 21/acNASS county figure
Nicholas2026USD 25/acNASS county figure
Pendleton2026USD 35/acNASS county figure
Pocahontas2026USD 37/acNASS county figure
Preston2026USD 27/acNASS county figure
Raleigh2026USD 25/acNASS county figure
Randolph2026USD 34/acNASS county figure
Roane2026USD 16/acNASS county figure
Taylor2026USD 24/acNASS county figure
Tucker2026USD 35/acNASS county figure
Wirt2026USD 12/acNASS county figure
Wood2026USD 55/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 October 2026. Labeled Measured.

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.

County average vs. a real parcel

The West Virginia state average is not your number.

West Virginia state average, 2026

$39/ac

USDA NASS, non-irrigated cropland

Your parcel

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

Analyze West Virginia 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.