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Montana farmland values by county

Name: Montana county farmland record
Creator: AGSIST
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Montana: 56 counties, each with census land value, USDA cash rent, corn yield, crop insurance claims and drought weeks, from public records updated monthly. Click a heading to sort.

Cash rent: every published Montana county rate side by side, with history back to 2008, irrigated and pasture shown apart: Montana cash rent by county.

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Montana at a glance

Median dry cash rent$31median of the 40 counties with a published 2026 non-irrigated rent, the same counties as the Montana rent page

Median land and buildings, 2022 census$1,237median of 53 counties with 10,000+ farm acres, value not flagged

Median corn yieldn/atoo few counties to give a median

Median claims per $100 of coverage$13.95median of 46 counties with 10,000+ farm acres

Montana cropland, 2026 state survey$1,350/ac+2.3% from 2025 · USDA NASS Land Values, state average

Montana farm real estate, 2026$1,260/acland and buildings, state average

Montana pasture, 2026$940/acstate average

Farm bankruptcies (Chapter 12)3 filingsfamily farm and fishing cases filed, 12 months to Sep 30, 2026 · 6 in 2025, 4 in 2024 · one federal court district · U.S. Courts, Table F-2

Farm loans: what ag bankers report

Is farm credit getting tighter where you farm? Each quarter the Federal Reserve asks ag bankers how repayment and loan renewals compare with a year earlier. Montana is in the Minneapolis Fed district (9th).

Minneapolis Fed district 9th · 2026 Q2

Tighter for borrowers than a year earlier.

Loan repayment rate75.93Under 100: more bankers said repayment rates fell than rose.

Renewals or extensions142.59Over 100: more bankers said renewals or extensions rose than fell.

Collateral required116.67Over 100: more bankers asked for more collateral than less.

Source: Minneapolis Fed ag survey, 2026 Q2.

How this works

Each quarter, ag bankers in the district say whether each item was higher, lower or the same as a year earlier. The index is the percent saying higher, minus the percent saying lower, plus 100. Over 100 means more said higher; under 100, more said lower; 100 is an even split.

The numbers come from the Kansas City Fed's table of every district survey. Chicago and Dallas quarters are checked against those banks' own files; a quarter where the two disagree is left out rather than guessed, and shows as a gap in the chart, as does a quarter not reported.

Fed districts do not follow state lines: a split state shows each district that reports. Richmond and San Francisco have no reading in the table after 2021 Q4 and 2020 Q2, so they are not shown. Read 2026-10-28.

Map: every county is a link

Color by

$19–$27$27–$29$29–$33$33–$39$39–$46

Dry cash rent, 2026 survey. Five equal-count groups of the state's counties: each swatch shows the range it covers. Grey is a county with no figure. Land values flagged to read with care are left grey.

Every county

County	Dry rent	Irr. rent	Land value	Median corn yield	Claims per $100	Drought weeks

Rent is dollars per acre, NASS county survey; an older year is shown beside the figure. Land value is the census of agriculture estimate; a star marks a value flagged to read with care. Corn yield is the median of published years. Claims per $100 of coverage are the last ten closed crop years. Drought weeks are the share of weeks since 2000 with half the county or more in D2 drought or worse. n/a means the source withheld the figure or the record does not carry it.

This product uses the NASS API but is not endorsed or certified by NASS. Averages, trends, ranks and estimates are calculations by AGSIST.