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Arizona Cash Rent by County, 2026

Every USDA-published county cash rental rate in Arizona, from the NASS Cash Rents Survey. 5 Arizona counties with a published 2026 permanent pasture rent · median $3.10/acre · +29.2% vs 2025 (matched counties) · data refreshed 2026-10-06

$3.10
MIDDLE COUNTY ROSE
The median Arizona county paid $3.10 an acre for permanent pasture in 2026, +29.2% vs 2025 across the same 5 counties. Highest county: Pinal at $4.10. Every county is in the table below.
That is the middle county on this page, not USDA NASS’s statewide average, which is not on this page yet.
These are the 2026 county rents, the newest NASS has put out (released Aug 21, 2026). NASS says county rents come out in late August every year, and they have every year since 2019; the 2027 date is not on its calendar yet.

Part of the Farmland Atlas: land values, rent and risk for every county.

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$3.10
median rent /ac · 2026
permanent pasture, 5 counties
+29.2%
vs 2025
median of 5 matched counties
-
vs 2017
too few matched counties
$4.10
top county
Pinal
$271
irrigated median · 2026
irrigated cropland, 4 counties, shown apart

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Every published county, 2026

Tap a column heading to sort. Greyed values are the county’s most recent published year where 2026 wasn’t published. Columns cover irrigated cropland, permanent pasture; state stats above use permanent pasture: NASS published dryland rent for fewer than 3 Arizona counties. Each county name opens its Farmland Atlas record (land value, yield, insurance and drought). Corn trend is the county’s 14-yr trend yield (projected 2026) from NASS county estimates, fitted on the same practice as the rent: the figure the Atlas county page divides rent by for rent per bushel, and the one its rent share calculator starts from.

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CountyIrrigated 2026Pasture 2026YoYCorn trend 2026
Apache$53 (2025)$3.70+54.2%n/a
Cochise$93 (2024)$1.30 (2025)n/amixed
Gilan/a$5.70 (2025)n/an/a
Graham$184 (2025)$4.20 (2024)n/an/a
Greenlee$72.50 (2019)n/an/an/a
La Paz$276n/an/an/a
Maricopa$266$2.70 (2016)n/amixed
Mohave$122 (2019)$1.90 (2024)n/an/a
Navajo$113 (2023)$1-9.1%n/a
Pima$171 (2025)$1.40 (2025)n/an/a
Pinal$183$4.10-29.3%mixed
Santa Cruzn/a$3.10-34.0%n/a
Yavapai$92.50 (2025)$2.40+118.2%n/a
Yuma$747n/an/an/a

Corn trend: mixed: NASS publishes only an all-practice corn yield for the county, and the county also irrigates, so that yield is withheld rather than set beside dryland rent; n/a: too few years of county yield on record.

Arizona median county rent by year

Median of counties published each year (permanent pasture). Years with no survey are left blank.

2012
$4.652 co.
2013
$2.854 co.
2014
$1.802 co.
2015no survey
2016
$1.756 co.
2017
$2.456 co.
2018no survey
2019
$2.506 co.
2020
$2.205 co.
2021
$1.907 co.
2022
$1.403 co.
2023
$2.807 co.
2024
$1.905 co.
2025
$1.908 co.
2026
$3.105 co.
What this can’t tell you. These are county means from a voluntary USDA survey. Rents vary widely inside a county, driven by soil, drainage, field size and how badly a neighbor wants the ground. Year-over-year stats above compare only counties published in both years, so a county dropping out of the survey can’t fake a trend.

Questions

What is the average cash rent per acre in Arizona for 2026?

The middle Arizona county pays $3.10 per acre for permanent pasture: half of the 5 counties with a published 2026 USDA NASS rate are above it and half below. NASS also puts out its own statewide average, a separate figure that is not shown here. Rents vary widely by county: highest Pinal ($4.10), Apache ($3.70), Santa Cruz ($3.10); lowest Navajo ($1), Yavapai ($2.40), Santa Cruz ($3.10). The county mean is a survey reference point, not a rate card.

How much did Arizona cash rent change from 2025 to 2026?

Comparing the same 5 counties published in both years, the median permanent pasture rent moved +29.2% year over year.

Why is my Arizona county not listed?

USDA NASS publishes a county rate only where enough Cash Rents Survey responses came back (and the county has at least 20,000 acres of cropland plus pasture). If your county is missing, NASS did not publish a rate for it.

When is county cash rent data released?

USDA NASS releases county cash rent estimates each August for the current crop year. This page rebuilds automatically when new data lands.

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Source: USDA NASS Quick Stats, Cash Rents Survey county estimates (released each August) and county yield estimates. Page rebuilt automatically from data refreshed 2026-10-06.