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Delaware Cash Rent by County, 2026

Every USDA-published county cash rental rate in Delaware, from the NASS Cash Rents Survey. 3 Delaware counties with a published 2026 non-irrigated cropland rent · median $106/acre · data refreshed 2026-10-06

$106
NOT ENOUGH MATCHED COUNTIES
The median Delaware county paid $106 an acre for non-irrigated cropland in 2026. Highest county: Kent at $119. 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.

Choosing ARC or PLC for 2026 or 2027? See Delaware ARC or PLC by county.

$106
median rent /ac · 2026
non-irrigated cropland, 3 counties
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vs 2025
too few matched counties
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vs 2017
too few matched counties
$119
top county
Kent

Rent for your ground, not the county average

The county number doesn’t know your ground. This scales the county’s 2026 rent by your own corn yield.

Pick a county and type your yield.

Derived by AGSIST, not a NASS number: the county’s 2026 NASS dryland rent divided by its 2026 corn trend yield (our 14-yr trend, same practice as the rent), times your yield. It assumes rent moves in step with yield, which real leases only roughly do. Use your APH or a typical year, not your best one. 3 of 3 Delaware counties have both numbers; for the rest the Corn trend column below says why there is none.

Two more ways to figure a fair rent

Share of gross. Your bushels times a price, and the share of that the rent takes. The share starts at the county’s own: its 2026 rent as a share of its trend-yield gross at this price.

Default: Delaware’s 2025 average price received for corn (USDA NASS, preliminary).

Return on land value. What the land is worth times the return an owner wants on it.

Cost-based. What is left of your gross after your own costs and pay for your work. That needs your budget, so this page doesn’t guess one.

For rent as a share of gross year by year since 2008, open the Farmland Atlas and its rent share calculator.

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.

CountyNon-irrigated 2026YoYCorn trend 2026
Kent$119+20.8%151 bu
New Castle$102-7.3%157 bu
Sussex$106+0.0%120 bu

Delaware median county rent by year

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

2008
$653 co.
2009
$663 co.
2010
$603 co.
2011
$703 co.
2012
$73.503 co.
2013
$783 co.
2014
$85.503 co.
2015no survey
2016
$89.503 co.
2017
$883 co.
2018no survey
2019
$951 co.
2020
$953 co.
2021
$833 co.
2022
$1003 co.
2023
$94.501 co.
2024
$1083 co.
2025
$1063 co.
2026
$1063 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 Delaware 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 Delaware.

Questions

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

The middle Delaware county pays $106 per acre for non-irrigated cropland: half of the 3 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 Kent ($119), Sussex ($106), New Castle ($102). With under five published counties, a highest/lowest split would overstate the sample. The county mean is a survey reference point, not a rate card.

How much did Delaware 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 Delaware 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.