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Nebraska farmland values by county

Nebraska: 93 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 Nebraska county rate side by side, with history back to 2008, irrigated and pasture shown apart: Nebraska cash rent by county.

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Nebraska at a glance

Median dry cash rent$141median of the 80 counties with a published 2026 non-irrigated rent, the same counties as the Nebraska rent page
Median land and buildings, 2022 census$4,499median of 93 counties with 10,000+ farm acres, value not flagged
Median corn yield179.3median of 67 counties with 10,000+ farm acres, 15+ published years
Median claims per $100 of coverage$4.74median of 90 counties with 10,000+ farm acres
Nebraska cropland, 2026 state survey$6,960/ac+2.4% from 2025 · USDA NASS Land Values, state average
Nebraska farm real estate, 2026$4,400/acland and buildings, state average
Nebraska pasture, 2026$1,590/acstate average
Farm bankruptcies (Chapter 12)14 filingsfamily farm and fishing cases filed, 12 months to Sep 30, 2026 · 17 in 2025, 15 in 2024 · one federal court district · U.S. Courts, Table F-2

Newer local survey: Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Survey, 2026 final, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, released Jun 30, 2026: land values and cash rents by district and land class. Their numbers, on their page; this page does not copy them.

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. Nebraska is in the Kansas City Fed district (10th).

Kansas City Fed district 10th · 2026 Q2

Tighter for borrowers than a year earlier.

Loan repayment rate85.21Under 100: more bankers said repayment rates fell than rose.
Renewals or extensions118.31Over 100: more bankers said renewals or extensions rose than fell.
Collateral required123.24Over 100: more bankers asked for more collateral than less.
4060801001201401602010201420182022202685.21 repayment118.31 renewals

From 2025 Q3 the Kansas City Fed's results also count Farm Credit System lenders, not only commercial banks. The dotted line marks it.

Source: Kansas City 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

Adams County: $144Antelope County: $173Arthur County: no current rentBanner County: $31Blaine County: no current rentBoone County: $204Box Butte County: $38Boyd County: $126Brown County: no current rentBuffalo County: $138Burt County: $252Butler County: $226Cass County: $226Cedar County: $247Chase County: $58Cherry County: no current rentCheyenne County: $43Clay County: $157Colfax County: $249Cuming County: $289Custer County: $100Dakota County: $264Dawes County: $35Dawson County: $128Deuel County: $45Dixon County: $256Dodge County: $225Douglas County: $248Dundy County: $51Fillmore County: $174Franklin County: $115Frontier County: $68Furnas County: $88Gage County: $176Garden County: $44Garfield County: $90Gosper County: $98Grant County: no current rentGreeley County: $145Hall County: no current rentHamilton County: $174Harlan County: $117Hayes County: $62Hitchcock County: $60Holt County: $90Hooker County: no current rentHoward County: $132Jefferson County: $159Johnson County: $184Kearney County: $129Keith County: $56Keya Paha County: $43Kimball County: $35Knox County: $217Lancaster County: $190Lincoln County: $66Logan County: $49Loup County: $110Madison County: $214McPherson County: no current rentMerrick County: no current rentMorrill County: no current rentNance County: $204Nemaha County: $213Nuckolls County: $148Otoe County: $186Pawnee County: $176Perkins County: $54Phelps County: $135Pierce County: $197Platte County: $258Polk County: $187Red Willow County: $67Richardson County: $211Rock County: $48Saline County: $152Sarpy County: $223Saunders County: $223Scotts Bluff County: no current rentSeward County: $205Sheridan County: $36Sherman County: $134Sioux County: $24Stanton County: $252Thayer County: $132Thomas County: no current rentThurston County: $269Valley County: $132Washington County: $229Wayne County: $269Webster County: $117Wheeler County: $88York County: no current rent
$24–$60$60–$128$128–$174$174–$223$223–$289

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

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueMedian corn yieldClaims per $100Drought 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.