Cash Rent by StateKentucky

Kentucky Cash Rent by County — 2025

Every USDA-published county cash rental rate in Kentucky, straight from the NASS Cash Rents Survey — no estimates, no modeling, no login. 80 Kentucky counties with a published 2025 non-irrigated cropland rent · median $120.5/acre · -4.6% vs 2024 (matched counties) · data refreshed 2026-07-18

$120.5
median rent /ac · 2025
non-irrigated cropland, 80 counties
-4.6%
vs 2024
median of 69 matched counties
+23.0%
vs 2016
median of 71 matched counties
$271
top county
Union

Every published county, 2025

Click a column to sort. Greyed values are the county’s most recent published year where 2025 wasn’t published. Columns cover non-irrigated cropland, irrigated cropland, permanent pasture; state stats above use non-irrigated cropland (the most-published type here). Corn trend is the AGSIST least-squares trend yield from NASS county estimates.

CountyNon-irrigated 2025Irrigated 2025Pasture 2025YoYCorn trend
Adair$155$33+12.3%202 bu
Allen$148$46+25.4%160 bu
Anderson$72$24.5
Ballard$160$49-4.2%216 bu
Barren$166 (2024)$49.5193 bu
Bath$96 (2023)$21.5206 bu
Boone$58 (2024)$32180 bu
Bourbon$103$44-22.6%223 bu
Boyd$38 (2024)$10 (2010)
Boyle$126 (2024)$45194 bu
Bracken$92$275 (2021)$12.5 (2023)+23.5%157 bu
Breathitt$36.5 (2011)
Breckinridge$132$38-0.8%179 bu
Bullitt$73$18 (2022)+15.9%177 bu
Butler$165 (2024)$21206 bu
Caldwell$170$180 (2017)$43-7.6%195 bu
Calloway$174$175 (2019)$32 (2022)+10.1%175 bu
Campbell$50$14.5 (2022)151 bu
Carlisle$170$50 (2024)+0.0%201 bu
Carroll$90$13.5+22.4%
Carter$28$14-16.4%117 bu
Casey$110$32.5 (2024)+5.8%174 bu
Christian$201$212$50.5+8.1%207 bu
Clark$90.5$45.5188 bu
Clay$51$22 (2010)-3.8%
Clinton$92$27+12.2%202 bu
Crittenden$178$20-1.7%195 bu
Cumberland$80$35-11.1%176 bu
Daviess$217$180 (2017)$29+0.0%194 bu
Edmonson$123$37-6.1%191 bu
Elliott$38 (2021)$10 (2023)
Estill$31$15-13.9%153 bu
Fayette$84$350 (2014)$40-8.7%204 bu
Fleming$124$30-9.5%163 bu
Floyd$51.5 (2022)
Franklin$66$24.5
Fulton$188-3.6%184 bu
Gallatin$110 (2017)$16.5 (2023)187 bu
Garrard$65.5$38.5+29.7%161 bu
Grant$40 (2024)$28.5173 bu
Graves$163$32 (2023)-0.6%189 bu
Grayson$108$31-9.2%183 bu
Green$152$29-6.7%184 bu
Greenup$51.5 (2024)$13 (2021)142 bu
Hancock$146 (2022)$20 (2020)230 bu
Hardin$158$42+23.4%188 bu
Harrison$100$300 (2014)$33+22.7%202 bu
Hart$158$39.5+7.5%193 bu
Henderson$234$41.5 (2024)-1.7%192 bu
Henry$87$22-2.2%193 bu
Hickman$188+9.3%195 bu
Hopkins$157 (2023)$33.5 (2023)
Jackson$20$13 (2020)-24.5%
Jefferson$52.5$22 (2013)-12.5%
Jessamine$67$35+27.6%100 bu
Johnson$30.5 (2022)$17.5 (2021)
Kenton$53 (2023)$27175 bu
Knox$29.5 (2024)$15 (2021)156 bu
Larue$201$40+8.6%238 bu
Laurel$35.5$15.5-32.4%150 bu
Lawrence$44$13.5 (2014)
Lewis$91$40+11.0%176 bu
Lincoln$112$41-7.4%171 bu
Livingston$174 (2024)$39 (2024)184 bu
Logan$251$45+2.9%204 bu
Lyon$144$21 (2022)
Madison$42$28.5+15.1%152 bu
Magoffin$30$11-15.5%
Marion$174$46.5-1.1%186 bu
Marshall$156 (2024)$35225 bu
Mason$100$40170 bu
Mccracken$149$22 (2017)+11.2%195 bu
Mccreary$43.5 (2022)
Mclean$190$35.5 (2024)-0.5%192 bu
Meade$170$36+6.9%206 bu
Menifee$41 (2023)$26 (2021)
Mercer$89.5 (2023)$35.5237 bu
Metcalfe$192$29+3.2%173 bu
Monroe$150 (2024)$41.5207 bu
Montgomery$53$32+14.0%147 bu
Morgan$28.5$16.5 (2023)-1.7%
Muhlenberg$145$31-6.5%205 bu
Nelson$190$43.5-0.5%
Nicholas$120$25+15.4%
Ohio$168 (2024)$41199 bu
Oldham$94$27 (2020)189 bu
Owen$86.5 (2024)$20.5167 bu
Owsley$34 (2022)
Pendleton$52.5 (2024)$225 (2017)$23.5162 bu
Pulaski$113$34-5.0%175 bu
Robertson$74.5$12 (2012)
Rockcastle$62$20-7.5%158 bu
Rowan$42.5 (2024)$28 (2020)154 bu
Russell$88.5$41.5-7.3%204 bu
Scott$100$250 (2014)$31.5-2.9%188 bu
Shelby$165$28.5+5.8%186 bu
Simpson$216$38 (2020)-9.2%204 bu
Spencer$121$37 (2024)173 bu
Taylor$168$36.5 (2024)-2.9%189 bu
Todd$210$47 (2024)-7.9%200 bu
Trigg$185$41-3.6%191 bu
Trimble$146 (2024)183 bu
Union$271$41 (2023)219 bu
Warren$198$51-3.4%212 bu
Washington$72.5$32-3.3%200 bu
Wayne$125$30-12.6%202 bu
Webster$227$39-4.2%204 bu
Whitley$18$15-18.2%
Wolfe$42.5 (2022)$10 (2021)
Woodford$128$29.5+17.4%182 bu

Kentucky median county rent by year

Median of counties published each year (non-irrigated cropland). Gap years are shown as gaps — drawing a line across them would be an invention.

2008
$7430 co.
2009
$6293 co.
2010
$7089 co.
2011
$67.593 co.
2012
$85.588 co.
2013
$9289 co.
2014
$10486 co.
2015no survey — gap shown, not interpolated
2016
$10089 co.
2017
$11084 co.
2018not published — gap shown, not interpolated
2019
$10486 co.
2020
$10589 co.
2021
$10297 co.
2022
$10894 co.
2023
$117.594 co.
2024
$12885 co.
2025
$120.580 co.
Honest limits. 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. Treat any county number as the start of a conversation, not a rate card.

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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 2026-07-18. AGSIST is free and sells nothing on this page.