Cash Rent by StateMontana

Montana Cash Rent by County — 2025

Every USDA-published county cash rental rate in Montana, straight from the NASS Cash Rents Survey — no estimates, no modeling, no login. 44 Montana counties with a published 2025 non-irrigated cropland rent · median $29.50/acre · +3.5% vs 2024 (matched counties) · data refreshed 2026-07-18

$29.50
RENT ROSE
The median Montana county paid $29.50 an acre for non-irrigated cropland in 2025, +3.5% vs 2024 across the same 38 counties. Highest county: Flathead at $45. Every county is in the table below.
$29.50
median rent /ac · 2025
non-irrigated cropland, 44 counties
+3.5%
vs 2024
median of 38 matched counties
+27.7%
vs 2016
median of 41 matched counties
$45
top county
Flathead

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
Beaverhead$15 (2016)$120$11
Big Horn$29.50$102$6.40+22.9%
Blaine$28$74 (2024)$6.50-3.4%
Broadwater$24 (2024)$183$7.40 (2024)
Carbon$29.50$110$9-9.2%
Carter$22$7.20+10.0%
Cascade$44.50$93$13.50+11.2%
Chouteau$36.50$74 (2017)$8.50 (2023)-1.4%
Custer$18 (2023)$109$6 (2023)
Daniels$32$8+12.3%
Dawson$33$122$9+24.5%
Deer Lodge$8 (2024)
Fallon$26$11+52.9%
Fergus$31$76 (2024)$11+1.6%
Flathead$45$76$11+11.1%
Gallatin$38$152$11.50-2.6%
Garfield$26$5.70+30.0%
Glacier$29$34$7.10+31.8%
Golden Valley$25$8.30+25.0%
Granite$15 (2023)$91 (2022)$14 (2022)
Hill$31$5.50+1.6%
Jefferson$26$106 (2023)$6.80+23.8%
Judith Basin$33.50$45 (2020)$15.50+13.6%
Lake$31$75$10.50 (2024)-1.6%
Lewis And Clark$36$84$6.20
Liberty$29$10-1.7%
Lincoln$25 (2020)$3.70 (2010)
Madison$36 (2019)$115$10
Mccone$29.50$49.50 (2017)$9.60+3.5%
Meagher$21.50 (2014)$38 (2014)$7.80 (2024)
Mineral$20 (2021)
Missoula$35$68.50$10.50+22.8%
Musselshell$27$85 (2023)$5.60+1.9%
Park$35.50$100$8.70 (2024)-5.3%
Petroleum$18$12.50+0.0%
Phillips$25$48$6.50 (2024)-2.0%
Pondera$41.50$69$14.50-2.4%
Powder River$17.50$6.80
Powell$28$69$6.60
Prairie$36.50$175 (2024)$8.10
Ravalli$32.50 (2022)$74.50$23.50
Richland$28.50$145$8-1.7%
Roosevelt$32.50$90 (2020)$8-7.1%
Rosebud$29$106 (2024)$4.90+31.8%
Sanders$21.50$56.50$6.10-10.4%
Sheridan$40$9+2.6%
Silver Bow$58 (2024)$8.90
Stillwater$20.50$94.50$8.10-8.9%
Sweet Grass$15 (2019)$53$6.80
Teton$38.50$111$12.50
Toole$34$8.40+6.2%
Treasure$7.90$132$4.90
Valley$30.50$45.50$11.50 (2024)+10.9%
Wheatland$17.50$66.50 (2021)$7.70-14.6%
Wibaux$30$11.50 (2024)-6.2%
Yellowstone$26.50$120$5.50-3.6%

Montana 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
$2110 co.
2009
$1929 co.
2010
$1928 co.
2011
$2320 co.
2012
$21.2530 co.
2013
$22.7526 co.
2014
$22.7534 co.
2015no survey — gap shown, not interpolated
2016
$22.7544 co.
2017
$2344 co.
2018not published — gap shown, not interpolated
2019
$2543 co.
2020
$2543 co.
2021
$26.5045 co.
2022
$28.2536 co.
2023
$27.5035 co.
2024
$28.5039 co.
2025
$29.5044 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. 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.