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Massachusetts Cash Rent by County — 2025

Every USDA-published county cash rental rate in Massachusetts, straight from the NASS Cash Rents Survey — no estimates, no modeling, no login. 8 Massachusetts counties with a published 2025 non-irrigated cropland rent · median $91/acre · +1.8% vs 2024 (matched counties) · data refreshed 2026-07-18

$91
median rent /ac · 2025
non-irrigated cropland, 8 counties
+1.8%
vs 2024
median of 5 matched counties
+7.0%
vs 2016
median of 5 matched counties
$144
top county
Hampshire

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
Barnstable$32.5 (2021)$490———
Berkshire$68.5$150$18 (2020)——
Bristol$111$273$72 (2009)+1.8%—
Dukes—$86 (2021)———
Essex—$386———
Franklin$124$396 (2023)$34 (2021)+2.5%—
Hampden$112$265 (2023)———
Hampshire$144$304$25 (2021)+1.4%—
Middlesex$71$149—-7.8%—
Norfolk$73 (2021)————
Plymouth$69$295 (2017)———
Worcester$52$320$41-1.0%—

Massachusetts 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
$753 co.
2009
$63.55 co.
2010
$516 co.
2011
$50.56 co.
2012
$556 co.
2013
$506 co.
2014
$485 co.
2015no survey — gap shown, not interpolated
2016
$64.55 co.
2017
$67.55 co.
2018not published — gap shown, not interpolated
2019
$78.55 co.
2020
$795 co.
2021
$7310 co.
2022
$82.256 co.
2023
$896 co.
2024
$1095 co.
2025
$918 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.
Do something with it: see this county on the national rent map (with rent as a share of what the acre can actually gross) · put a number in a printable Massachusetts cash lease · check local basis vs normal before you commit to a rent that needs a price.

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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.