Cape May County, New Jersey
Sales through Jun 30, 2026
Newest sales town, not parcel
- Jun 2, 2026 16.1 ac at $819/ac ($13,186), Lower township with buildings
- Oct 29, 2025 22 ac at $75,091/ac ($1,652,000), Lower township with buildings
Recorded prices. Not an appraisal. No adjustments. A recorded price is what the state's transfer record says was paid once the sale closed, auction or private; never an asking price.
Sales: New Jersey Division of Taxation, SR-1A deed abstracts with acres from the MOD-IV 2026 assessment list, farm lots (classes 3A and 3B). Rent: USDA NASS.
Cape May County, NJ: land and buildings $19,256 an acre in the 2022 census. Bids, weather, crops, land and programs for one county. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 34009. Figures as of Nov 5, 2026; the rows marked with a date load the newest reading when the page opens.
Stands out against its own record
With half the county or more in severe drought (D2) or worse in 2026 so far, the most since 2002 (32 weeks).
U.S. Drought Monitor weekly maps, 2000 to 2026 (40 maps this year)
As of Oct 16, the census value of land and buildings in Cape May County stood at $19,256 an acre in 2022. That is up 32.2% from $14,561 in 2017, or 5.7% a year, and well past the $11,534 of 2012. It runs above the New Jersey median of $14,983 across 13 counties. In 2022, 23% of the farmland was rented.
Cape May County had 7,821 acres in farms in the 2022 census. County averages here describe very little farmland; read them with care.
NJ median $14,983
NJ median 32%
Grain and prices within 50 miles
Bids are posted elevator prices within 50 miles of the county middle, or of your own field or saved place in this county when this device has one (each row says which), best and nearest, never a buyer's name. Not a contract; call before you haul. Livestock lines show where the 2022 Census counts 1,000 head or more: milk for milk cows, feeder cattle for beef cows, live cattle for cattle on feed, hogs for hogs, hay for all cattle.
Weather and the season
Rain so far this year in Cape May County, New Jersey
Drought, year by year
Weeks per year, U.S. Drought Monitor, with half the county or more in D2 (severe) drought or worse.
Crops
Corn yield
Land rent, value, sales
Cash rent
Every published New Jersey county rate, side by side: New Jersey cash rent by county.
Land value
The census value is this county's, from 2022. The survey figures are the New Jersey average for 2026, from the USDA NASS Land Values report. NASS publishes that survey by state, not by county, so this page does not scale one into the other.
Recorded farm sales
Sale counts and the median price buyers paid per acre in Cape May County, from New Jersey SR-1A deed abstracts with the MOD-IV assessment list (New Jersey Division of Taxation), load here.
Land sales: Recorded sales in Cape May County, sale by sale.
Programs and risk
Benchmarks, payments and the choice for each crop: ARC or PLC in Cape May County.
PRF rainfall insurance for pasture and hay in Cape May County: its grids, county values and record are on the county PRF page.
Crop insurance record
Claims paid divided by total premium (the farmer share plus the federal subsidy), each closed crop year since 1995 with at least $1,000,000 of premium; a year under that has no bar and no ratio. Above the dashed line, the county's insurance book paid out more than it took in.
Conservation Reserve Program
Acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, USDA FSA, by fiscal year.
What farms here look like
USDA Census of Agriculture 2022, except wells (state well register) and power (EIA Form 860).
Next door
| County | Dry rent | Irr. rent | Land value | Claims per $100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cape May County | n/a | n/a | $19,256 | n/a |
| Atlantic County | n/a | $236 | $14,983 | $11.03 |
| Cumberland County | $100 | $159 | $11,056 | $7.13 |
| Median next door | $100 1 co. | $198 2 co. | $13,020 2 co. | $9.08 2 co. |
Counties that share a stretch of boundary. A rent from an older survey year carries its year and stays out of the median; one more than three survey years old shows n/a.
Not on this page yet
- This year's growing degree days and first fall freeze for the county. The normals above are here; the current year is not yet.
- County crop condition and harvest pace. USDA publishes them by state, not by county, so the state line stands in.
- Number of farms and farm size, from the 2022 Census of Agriculture county tables.
- Soils, slope, wetlands and flood zones for one field. Those load at the field in Field Scout, not on a county page.
Cite this page
AGSIST Farmland Atlas. Cape May County, New Jersey. Figures as of Nov 5, 2026, from USDA NASS, USDA RMA, USDA FSA, the U.S. Drought Monitor and NOAA. https://agsist.com/farmland-atlas/new-jersey/cape-may-countyEvery figure is a county average from the sources named below. Rent ranks count every county with a published rent in the same survey year, within the state (the same counties as the state rent page); other ranks count counties with 10,000 acres or more in farms. Methods: how each figure is built. Downloads: all counties, CSV.
Sources, dates and arithmetic
"Figures as of" is the date this page's numbers last changed; it moves only when a figure on the page does. Source files and their retrieval dates are listed on the data page.
This product uses the NASS API but is not endorsed or certified by NASS. Averages, trends, ranks and estimates are calculations by AGSIST.
Rent: USDA NASS Cash Rents Survey, county. Land value: Census of Agriculture, operators' estimate of land and buildings. Yield: NASS county corn yields. The headline trend, the one rent per bushel uses, is fitted here over the published years in the 15 years ending this year; the yearly trend card uses every published year since 2008. Loss ratio: claims (indemnity) divided by total premium, USDA RMA Summary of Business, 1989 on, open crop year left out. Claims paid per $100 of coverage: claims divided by liability (the insured value), times 100, same source. Drought: U.S. Drought Monitor, weeks with half the county or more in D2 or worse. July lows: NOAA nClimDiv county monthly minimum temperature. A missing figure is named with its reason (in a table it reads n/a).