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Connecticut Cash Rent by County, 2026

Every USDA-published county cash rental rate in Connecticut, from the NASS Cash Rents Survey. 6 Connecticut counties with a published 2026 non-irrigated cropland rent · median $83/acre · data refreshed 2026-10-06

$83

NOT ENOUGH MATCHED COUNTIES

The median Connecticut county paid $83 an acre for non-irrigated cropland in 2026. Highest county: Hartford at $152. 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.

$83

median rent /ac · 2026

non-irrigated cropland, 6 counties

vs 2025

too few matched counties

vs 2017

too few matched counties

$152

top county

Hartford

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. 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.

Swipe the table sideways for every column.

County	Non-irrigated 2026	YoY	Corn trend 2026
Hartford	$152	-1.3%	n/a
Litchfield	$47 (2025)	n/a	n/a
Middlesex	$67.50	n/a	n/a
New Haven	$80	n/a	n/a
New London	$86	n/a	n/a
Tolland	$90	-13.5%	n/a
Windham	$56	-13.8%	n/a

Corn trend: n/a: too few years of county yield on record.

Connecticut median county rent by year

Median of counties published each year (non-irrigated cropland). Years with no survey are left blank.

2008

$67.502 co.

2009not published

2010

$50.505 co.

2011

$475 co.

2012

$565 co.

2013

$47.504 co.

2014

$605 co.

2015no survey

2016

$48.505 co.

2017

$45.754 co.

2018no survey

2019

$615 co.

2020not published

2021

$67.756 co.

2022

$66.756 co.

2023

$81.506 co.

2024

$975 co.

2025

$84.504 co.

2026

$836 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.

Open a county in the table for its Farmland Atlas page and the rent share calculator (rent as a share of what the acre can actually gross, year by year) · put a number in a printable Connecticut cash lease · check local basis vs normal before you commit to a rent that needs a price · insuring hay ground? See PRF rainfall insurance in Connecticut.

Questions

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

The middle Connecticut county pays $83 per acre for non-irrigated cropland: half of the 6 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 Hartford ($152), Tolland ($90), New London ($86); lowest Windham ($56), Middlesex ($67.50), New Haven ($80). The county mean is a survey reference point, not a rate card.

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

Too few counties were published in both years for a clean year-over-year figure.

Why is my Connecticut 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.