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New Jersey Cash Rent by County, 2026

Every USDA-published county cash rental rate in New Jersey, from the NASS Cash Rents Survey. 10 New Jersey counties with a published 2026 non-irrigated cropland rent · median $84/acre · +5.3% vs 2025 (matched counties) · data refreshed 2026-10-06

$84
MIDDLE COUNTY ROSE
The median New Jersey county paid $84 an acre for non-irrigated cropland in 2026, +5.3% vs 2025 across the same 9 counties. Highest county: Warren at $129. For irrigated cropland the middle county paid $159.50 (6 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.

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$84
median rent /ac · 2026
non-irrigated cropland, 10 counties
+5.3%
vs 2025
median of 9 matched counties
+35.1%
vs 2017
median of 6 matched counties
$129
top county
Warren
$159.50
irrigated median · 2026
irrigated cropland, 6 counties, shown apart

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; state stats above use non-irrigated cropland, published for 10 New Jersey counties against 6 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.

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CountyNon-irrigated 2026Irrigated 2026YoYCorn trend 2026
Atlanticn/a$236n/amixed
Burlington$79$160+0.6%mixed
Camdenn/a$83.50 (2024)n/an/a
Cumberland$99.50$159+17.8%mixed
Gloucester$108$112+21.3%mixed
Hunterdon$65.50n/a+27.2%n/a
Mercer$54.50$297 (2024)-0.9%mixed
Middlesex$70.50n/a+13.7%n/a
Monmouth$101$158+14.1%mixed
Morris$55 (2022)$130 (2024)n/amixed
Salem$89$164+1.7%mixed
Somerset$34.50n/an/an/a
Sussex$41.50 (2025)$180 (2022)n/amixed
Warren$129$160 (2017)+41.8%n/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; n/a: too few years of county yield on record.

New Jersey median county rent by year

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

2008
$50.754 co.
2009
$457 co.
2010
$437 co.
2011
$547 co.
2012
$637 co.
2013
$647 co.
2014
$607 co.
2015no survey
2016
$57.505 co.
2017
$687 co.
2018no survey
2019
$63.507 co.
2020
$657 co.
2021
$659 co.
2022
$7211 co.
2023
$6911 co.
2024
$82.509 co.
2025
$81.5010 co.
2026
$8410 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 New Jersey for 2026?

The middle New Jersey county pays $84 per acre for non-irrigated cropland: half of the 10 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 Warren ($129), Gloucester ($108), Monmouth ($101); lowest Somerset ($34.50), Mercer ($54.50), Hunterdon ($65.50). For irrigated cropland the middle county paid $159.50 (6 counties). The county mean is a survey reference point, not a rate card.

How much did New Jersey cash rent change from 2025 to 2026?

Comparing the same 9 counties published in both years, the median non-irrigated cropland rent moved +5.3% year over year.

Why is my New Jersey 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.