County cash rent

Wisconsin Farmland Cash Rent: County Rates and Trends

USDA NASS reported 67 Wisconsin county cash-rent figures for non-irrigated cropland in 2025. The 2026 state average is USD 166/ac, up USD 5/ac from 2025.

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

The five highest reported Wisconsin counties in 2025 are Lafayette (USD 260/ac), Grant (USD 243/ac), Dane (USD 233/ac), Rock (USD 210/ac), Walworth (USD 210/ac).

The five lowest reported counties are Douglas (USD 15/ac), Bayfield (USD 26/ac), Florence (USD 26/ac), Price (USD 26/ac), Ashland (USD 33/ac), which shows why a statewide average is a weak substitute for county data.

For broader state soil, parcel, energy, and CRP context, use the Wisconsin farmland analysis hub. This page stays focused on rent queries.

Wisconsin cash rent by county (2025)
County or fallbackYear$/acreData level
Adams2025USD 83/acNASS county figure
Ashland2025USD 33/acNASS county figure
Barron2025USD 93/acNASS county figure
Bayfield2025USD 26/acNASS county figure
Brown2025USD 208/acNASS county figure
Buffalo2025USD 141/acNASS county figure
Burnett2025USD 55/acNASS county figure
Calumet2025USD 188/acNASS county figure
Chippewa2025USD 123/acNASS county figure
Clark2025USD 120/acNASS county figure
Columbia2025USD 187/acNASS county figure
Crawford2025USD 145/acNASS county figure
Dane2025USD 233/acNASS county figure
Dodge2025USD 209/acNASS county figure
Door2025USD 127/acNASS county figure
Douglas2025USD 15/acNASS county figure
Dunn2025USD 142/acNASS county figure
Eau Claire2025USD 130/acNASS county figure
Florence2025USD 26/acNASS county figure
Fond Du Lac2025USD 182/acNASS county figure
Grant2025USD 243/acNASS county figure
Green2025USD 205/acNASS county figure
Green Lake2025USD 195/acNASS county figure
Iowa2025USD 197/acNASS county figure
Jackson2025USD 155/acNASS county figure
Jefferson2025USD 181/acNASS county figure
Juneau2025USD 102/acNASS county figure
Kenosha2025USD 163/acNASS county figure
Kewaunee2025USD 207/acNASS county figure
La Crosse2025USD 169/acNASS county figure
Lafayette2025USD 260/acNASS county figure
Langlade2025USD 114/acNASS county figure
Lincoln2025USD 68/acNASS county figure
Manitowoc2025USD 205/acNASS county figure
Marathon2025USD 111/acNASS county figure
Marinette2025USD 127/acNASS county figure
Marquette2025USD 79/acNASS county figure
Milwaukee2025USD 85/acNASS county figure
Monroe2025USD 140/acNASS county figure
Oconto2025USD 156/acNASS county figure
Outagamie2025USD 176/acNASS county figure
Ozaukee2025USD 132/acNASS county figure
Pepin2025USD 164/acNASS county figure
Pierce2025USD 168/acNASS county figure
Polk2025USD 104/acNASS county figure
Portage2025USD 79/acNASS county figure
Price2025USD 26/acNASS county figure
Racine2025USD 153/acNASS county figure
Richland2025USD 133/acNASS county figure
Rock2025USD 210/acNASS county figure
Rusk2025USD 92/acNASS county figure
Sauk2025USD 151/acNASS county figure
Sawyer2025USD 59/acNASS county figure
Shawano2025USD 129/acNASS county figure
Sheboygan2025USD 147/acNASS county figure
St Croix2025USD 140/acNASS county figure
Taylor2025USD 103/acNASS county figure
Trempealeau2025USD 137/acNASS county figure
Vernon2025USD 155/acNASS county figure
Walworth2025USD 210/acNASS county figure
Washburn2025USD 66/acNASS county figure
Washington2025USD 132/acNASS county figure
Waukesha2025USD 159/acNASS county figure
Waupaca2025USD 129/acNASS county figure
Waushara2025USD 81/acNASS county figure
Winnebago2025USD 111/acNASS county figure
Wood2025USD 80/acNASS county figure
Counties not separately reported by NASS2026USD 166/acState-level fallback, not county-specific

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

The 2026 state average is USD 166/ac, up USD 5/ac from 2025. The trend line below uses NASS state rows so it stays stable even when individual county suppression changes year to year.

Wisconsin non-irrigated cropland cash rent A five-year line chart of dollars per acre. 170 140 2022 145 2023 151 2024 158 2025 161 2026 166
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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