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Kansas Cash Rent by County, 2026

Every USDA-published county cash rental rate in Kansas, from the NASS Cash Rents Survey. 102 Kansas counties with a published 2026 non-irrigated cropland rent · median $58/acre · +0.9% vs 2025 (matched counties) · data refreshed 2026-10-06

$58
MIDDLE COUNTY EDGED UP
The median Kansas county paid $58 an acre for non-irrigated cropland in 2026, +0.9% vs 2025 across the same 101 counties. Highest county: Doniphan at $193. For irrigated cropland the middle county paid $159 (28 counties). 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 Kansas ARC or PLC by county.

$58
median rent /ac · 2026
non-irrigated cropland, 102 counties
+0.9%
vs 2025
median of 101 matched counties
+22.4%
vs 2017
median of 82 matched counties
$193
top county
Doniphan
$159
irrigated median · 2026
irrigated cropland, 28 counties, shown apart
$24
pasture median · 2026
permanent pasture, 99 counties, shown apart

Insuring pasture or hay ground? See PRF rainfall insurance in Kansas: county values, what each pair of months costs, and every year since 1951.

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. 19 of 102 Kansas 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: Kansas’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. Columns cover non-irrigated cropland, irrigated cropland, permanent pasture; state stats above use non-irrigated cropland, published for 102 Kansas counties against 28 irrigated. 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 2026Irrigated 2026Pasture 2026YoYCorn trend 2026
Allen$70.50n/a$31+11.0%126 bu
Anderson$70.50n/a$33.50+11.9%mixed
Atchison$131n/a$41.50-3.0%mixed
Barber$43n/a$15+1.2%ends 2022
Barton$44.50$135$22-1.1%mixed
Bourbon$63.50n/a$33.50+10.4%123 bu
Brown$184$232 (2023)$49-6.6%mixed
Butler$54n/a$28-2.7%120 bu
Chase$63n/a$36-9.4%146 bu
Chautauqua$30.50 (2025)n/a$16.50n/a94 bu
Cherokee$70n/a$44.50+5.3%116 bu
Cheyenne$55$170$12.50+2.8%mixed
Clark$37.50n/a$15+2.7%n/a
Clay$99$199 (2025)$35+3.1%mixed
Cloud$115$236$40.50+4.5%mixed
Coffey$61.50n/a$33-12.1%mixed
Comanche$35.50$107 (2025)$13+7.6%n/a
Cowley$52n/a$23+4.0%mixed
Crawford$73.50n/a$38+8.9%mixed
Decatur$52.50$148 (2021)$16.50-6.2%mixed
Dickinson$62n/a$26-6.8%mixed
Doniphan$193n/a$50 (2025)-4.5%mixed
Douglas$84.50$151 (2025)$32.50-5.6%155 bu
Edwards$40.50$167$18.50-1.2%mixed
Elk$51n/a$23.50-1.0%105 bu
Ellis$42.50 (2025)n/a$20n/amixed
Ellsworth$45.50n/a$26-8.1%107 bu
Finney$49.50$210$14.50+17.9%mixed
Ford$47$169$15.50+10.6%mixed
Franklin$74.50n/a$31.50+20.2%162 bu
Geary$76.50$143 (2023)$31.50-6.7%mixed
Gove$50$131 (2025)$24.50+3.1%ends 2017
Graham$41.50$110$20-5.7%mixed
Grant$30.50$96 (2019)$12n/amixed
Gray$49.50$154$18+3.1%mixed
Greeley$49$123 (2019)$17+19.5%mixed
Greenwood$61n/a$26+10.9%108 bu
Hamilton$34$157 (2025)$14.50 (2025)+4.6%mixed
Harper$47n/a$21.50+19.0%mixed
Harvey$67.50$162 (2025)$27.50+1.5%ends 2018
Haskell$41$145$14.50 (2020)+1.2%mixed
Hodgeman$37.50$87.50 (2023)$17+1.4%mixed
Jackson$91.50n/a$34-11.2%mixed
Jefferson$82n/a$31.50+13.9%mixed
Jewell$82.50$184 (2013)$30-1.2%mixed
Johnson$70.50n/a$31-9.6%n/a
Kearny$32.50$204$11-7.1%mixed
Kingman$47.50$144 (2025)$21+4.4%mixed
Kiowa$39$144 (2025)$17+14.7%mixed
Labette$61n/a$37.50+15.1%96 bu
Lane$41n/a$16+0.0%mixed
Leavenworth$85.50n/a$39.50-2.8%171 bu
Lincoln$68.50n/a$27+7.9%n/a
Linn$97n/a$38.50+10.2%n/a
Logan$50$130$13+0.0%mixed
Lyon$71.50n/a$33+9.2%97 bu
Marion$55.50$102$25-5.9%mixed
Marshall$126n/a$27.50+9.6%mixed
McPherson$70.50$152$28.50+5.2%ends 2018
Meade$46$138 (2021)$12+8.2%mixed
Miami$86.50n/a$32.50+13.1%154 bu
Mitchell$76$148$31.50-5.0%ends 2018
Montgomery$68n/a$27.50+7.9%120 bu
Morris$61.50n/a$33+6.0%127 bu
Morton$29.50$81 (2025)$10-1.7%mixed
Nemaha$159$223 (2021)$39.50+17.8%mixed
Neosho$55n/a$35-12.7%105 bu
Ness$41.50n/a$20.50+3.8%mixed
Norton$55$178 (2023)$20+14.6%mixed
Osage$70n/a$30-2.8%115 bu
Osborne$58$90 (2013)$23-1.7%mixed
Ottawa$76$136 (2023)$31.50+8.6%mixed
Pawnee$47$143 (2023)$17.50+8.0%mixed
Phillips$58$95 (2019)$25.50+12.6%mixed
Pottawatomie$97.50$192 (2020)$30.50+0.0%mixed
Pratt$46$150$18+9.5%mixed
Rawlins$66.50$160 (2025)$18+3.9%mixed
Reno$53$181$21.50-2.8%mixed
Republic$99.50$237$32.50+2.6%mixed
Rice$56.50$164$19-4.2%mixed
Riley$87.50n/a$31+16.7%mixed
Rooks$48.50n/a$21.50+0.0%mixed
Rush$46n/a$19+13.6%mixed
Russell$42n/a$20.50+5.0%n/a
Saline$65$80 (2014)$30.50+0.0%mixed
Scott$56.50$115$17+2.7%mixed
Sedgwick$56$169$23 (2023)+0.0%mixed
Seward$37$137$14+15.6%mixed
Shawnee$71$201$23.50+10.1%mixed
Sheridan$63.50$199$21.50+1.6%mixed
Sherman$63$193$18.50+8.6%mixed
Smith$75.50$195 (2021)$27+3.4%mixed
Stafford$48$151$19.50-6.8%mixed
Stanton$32.50$101$10.50 (2024)+4.8%mixed
Stevens$36$131$10.50-2.7%mixed
Sumner$57$124 (2022)$22+17.5%mixed
Thomas$65$189$18.50+12.1%mixed
Trego$41n/a$17-9.9%mixed
Wabaunsee$63$95 (2014)$30.50+2.4%mixed
Wallace$52.50$125 (2019)$16.50+16.7%mixed
Washington$91.50$173 (2021)$32.50+6.4%mixed
Wichita$55.50$141 (2023)$17+0.0%ends 2018
Wilson$75$67 (2013)$24-2.6%mixed
Woodson$58.50n/a$30.50+19.4%122 bu
Wyandotten/an/a$34.50 (2025)n/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; ends: the county’s yield series stopped that year, too long ago to project; n/a: too few years of county yield on record.

Kansas median county rent by year

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

2008
$4555 co.
2009
$37.50101 co.
2010
$3999 co.
2011
$39.7598 co.
2012
$49.5081 co.
2013
$45.5086 co.
2014
$4699 co.
2015no survey
2016
$49.2590 co.
2017
$49.5084 co.
2018no survey
2019
$49.5092 co.
2020
$49104 co.
2021
$50.50102 co.
2022
$55102 co.
2023
$54.25102 co.
2024
$58.75100 co.
2025
$56103 co.
2026
$58102 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 Kansas for 2026?

The middle Kansas county pays $58 per acre for non-irrigated cropland: half of the 102 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 Doniphan ($193), Brown ($184), Nemaha ($159); lowest Morton ($29.50), Grant ($30.50), Stanton ($32.50). For irrigated cropland the middle county paid $159 (28 counties). The county mean is a survey reference point, not a rate card.

How much does pasture rent for per acre in Kansas?

The median USDA NASS county cash rent for permanent pasture in Kansas is $24 per acre across the 99 counties with a published 2026 pasture rate. Highest Brown ($49), Cherokee ($44.50), Atchison ($41.50); lowest Morton ($10), Stevens ($10.50), Kearny ($11). Each county's pasture rate is in its own column in the county table below.

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

Comparing the same 101 counties published in both years, the median non-irrigated cropland rent moved +0.9% year over year.

Why is my Kansas 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.

When must I give notice to terminate a Kansas farm lease?

Kansas law sets the deadline at 30 days before March 1 (K.S.A. section 58-2506). Miss it and the lease typically continues another year on the same terms. See the AGSIST cash farm lease for the details and a printable lease.

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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.