Farmland sales in Bennington County, Vermont
7 recorded sales in the last 12 months, any size (5 of 10 acres or more).
Market middle: $3,766 an acre, the middle of 9 bare farmland sales of 20 acres or more at $500 an acre or more, Oct 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2026 (middle half $1,988 to $7,799). Sales with buildings, forest and small parcels are listed below but kept out of this middle.
All of Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Vermont together: the September 2026 update, with the biggest buyers and unusual prices.
Vermont sales come from the property transfer tax return. A return is a farm sale here when the land's use before or after the sale is an operating farm or timberland, or open land enrolled in current use. Left out of the market rule: a buyer the return marks as related to the seller (family, the seller's own trust or another relation), a return that claims a transfer tax exemption, a transfer the land gains tax return says was without pay, by divorce or by foreclosure, and anything less than the whole interest (a share, a life estate, a lease or an easement). Buildings come from the return's buildings boxes; timberland with no operating farm and no buildings is forest. Current use enrollment is shown on each sale; Vermont enrolls both farm and forest land, so open land in current use is counted as farmland and may include some woods. Our Vermont copy starts with the returns posted in 2019.
Every recorded sale
80 sales on file, Mar 12, 2019 to Aug 14, 2026: 40 farmland, 20 with buildings, 12 forest, 8 small parcels.
| Date | Where | Acres | Price | $/acre | Type | Note | Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 2026 | Dorset town, Bennington County, VT | 544.4 | $2,050,000 | $3,766 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Sandgate town, Bennington County, VT | 30.5 | $1,700,000 | $55,793 | with buildings | Enrolled in current use | |
| Apr 7, 2026 | Rupert town, Bennington County, VT | 170 | $600,000 | $3,529 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | |
| Mar 31, 2026 | Peru town, Bennington County, VT | 46.3 | $361,100 | $7,799 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | |
| Mar 31, 2026 | Rupert town, Bennington County, VT | 7.8 | $9,176 | $1,176 | small parcel | Enrolled in current use | |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Sandgate town, Bennington County, VT | not stated | $780,000 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | ||
| Mar 24, 2026 | Peru town, Bennington County, VT | 99.3 | $525,000 | $5,286 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | |
| Sep 12, 2025 | Pownal town, Bennington County, VT | 69.5 | $52,125 | $750 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | |
| Aug 8, 2025 | Bennington town, Bennington County, VT | 7 | $73,500 | $10,500 | small parcel | Enrolled in current use | |
| Jul 31, 2025 | Shaftsbury town, Bennington County, VT | 138.3 | $275,000 | $1,988 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | |
| Jul 21, 2025 | Manchester town, Bennington County, VT | 16.9 | $1,255,000 | $74,129 | with buildings | ||
| Apr 10, 2025 | Rupert town, Bennington County, VT | 282 | $550,000 | $1,950 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | |
| Apr 8, 2025 | Stamford town, Bennington County, VT | 10.4 | $30,000 | $2,885 | forest | ||
| Mar 10, 2025 | Shaftsbury town, Bennington County, VT | 92.5 | $800,000 | $8,650 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | |
| Mar 7, 2025 | Stamford town, Bennington County, VT | 1 | $4,000 | $4,000 | forest | ||
| Feb 18, 2025 | Peru town, Bennington County, VT | 39 | $338,500 | $8,679 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Shaftsbury town, Bennington County, VT | 61.1 | $892,000 | $14,597 | with buildings | ||
| Dec 16, 2024 | Shaftsbury town, Bennington County, VT | 21.5 | $154,100 | $7,167 | with buildings | ||
| Dec 16, 2024 | Shaftsbury town, Bennington County, VT | 50.3 | $1,680,000 | $33,373 | with buildings | Enrolled in current use | |
| Sep 30, 2024 | Arlington town, Bennington County, VT | 10.4 | $550,000 | $52,885 | with buildings | ||
| Aug 23, 2024 | Bennington town, Bennington County, VT | 0.3 | $185,000 | $660,714 | with buildings | ||
| Aug 5, 2024 | Shaftsbury town, Bennington County, VT | 253.7 | $625,000 | $2,464 | with buildings | Enrolled in current use | |
| Jul 22, 2024 | Arlington town, Bennington County, VT | 85 | $375,000 | $4,412 | forest | Enrolled in current use | |
| Jul 15, 2024 | Bennington town, Bennington County, VT | 18.5 | $285,000 | $15,405 | with buildings | ||
| May 13, 2024 | Manchester town, Bennington County, VT | 121.5 | $450,000 | $3,704 | with buildings | Enrolled in current use | |
| May 13, 2024 | Sunderland town, Bennington County, VT | 27 | $63,000 | $2,333 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | |
| Apr 1, 2024 | Sunderland town, Bennington County, VT | 42 | $10,000 | $238 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | |
| Jan 25, 2024 | Landgrove town, Bennington County, VT | 1.4 | $40,000 | $28,986 | with buildings | ||
| Dec 6, 2023 | Pownal town, Bennington County, VT | 153 | $295,000 | $1,928 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | |
| Oct 31, 2023 | Pownal town, Bennington County, VT | 29.4 | $315,000 | $10,714 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | |
| Oct 3, 2023 | Sunderland town, Bennington County, VT | 54.3 | $300,000 | $5,525 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | |
| Aug 8, 2023 | Sandgate town, Bennington County, VT | 123.5 | $190,000 | $1,538 | forest | Enrolled in current use | |
| Jun 13, 2023 | Peru town, Bennington County, VT | 117 | $900,000 | $7,689 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | |
| Apr 24, 2023 | Bennington town, Bennington County, VT | 81.5 | $97,800 | $1,200 | forest | ||
| Apr 11, 2023 | Shaftsbury town, Bennington County, VT | 66 | $162,719 | $2,465 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | |
| Mar 24, 2023 | Dorset town, Bennington County, VT | 0.6 | $6,100 | $10,167 | small parcel | Enrolled in current use | |
| Mar 16, 2023 | Landgrove town, Bennington County, VT | 34.9 | $349,000 | $9,991 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | |
| Feb 13, 2023 | Pownal town, Bennington County, VT | 80.7 | $56,500 | $700 | forest | Enrolled in current use | |
| Nov 22, 2022 | Sandgate town, Bennington County, VT | 65 | $40,687 | $626 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | |
| Aug 31, 2022 | Pownal town, Bennington County, VT | 30.5 | $130,000 | $4,262 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | |
| May 31, 2022 | Rupert town, Bennington County, VT | 124 | $330,000 | $2,661 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | |
| Mar 28, 2022 | Shaftsbury town, Bennington County, VT | 90 | $340,000 | $3,778 | with buildings | Enrolled in current use | |
| Feb 23, 2022 | Shaftsbury town, Bennington County, VT | 39.4 | $151,100 | $3,835 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | |
| Feb 15, 2022 | Landgrove town, Bennington County, VT | 35.9 | $400,000 | $11,142 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | |
| Feb 1, 2022 | Sunderland town, Bennington County, VT | 137.6 | $276,000 | $2,006 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | |
| Jan 18, 2022 | Pownal town, Bennington County, VT | 28.8 | $131,900 | $4,580 | with buildings | Enrolled in current use | |
| Nov 19, 2021 | Dorset town, Bennington County, VT | 7.1 | $600,000 | $84,626 | small parcel | Enrolled in current use | |
| Oct 21, 2021 | Landgrove town, Bennington County, VT | 27.3 | $349,000 | $12,798 | farmland | Enrolled in current use | |
| Oct 21, 2021 | Rupert town, Bennington County, VT | 216 | $123,500 | $572 | forest | Enrolled in current use | |
| Oct 11, 2021 | Woodford town, Bennington County, VT | 5.7 | $10,000 | $1,767 | forest |
Showing the newest 50 of 80 sales.
Type: with buildings means the property class on the record shows a house, farm buildings or a business; forest means forest classes with no farm class (Wisconsin) or timberland with no operating farm (Vermont); a small parcel is under 20 acres; farmland is the rest. Acres not stated: a return covering several parcels that does not give them.
A sale marked unusual is bare farmland whose price per acre sits well outside the market middle half; possible reasons above it: a house or buildings, timber or hunting ground, a building site or development land, or a neighbor paying more for the piece next door; below: a family or neighbor sale, a part interest, wooded, wet or poorer ground, no road access, or a land contract.
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A sale is listed when it carries a price and acres and a whole interest changed hands in a normal sale: gifts, family and related-party sales, quit claims, foreclosures and the like are left out, the same rule as Field Scout and the Farmland Atlas. Township and town are where the state places the sale; no parcel is pinned. None of this is an appraisal. Source: Vermont Department of Taxes, property transfer tax returns (published by VCGI), farm, forest and current use land, read Oct 29, 2026.
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