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New York Cash Rent by County, 2026

Every USDA-published county cash rental rate in New York, from the NASS Cash Rents Survey. 47 New York counties with a published 2026 non-irrigated cropland rent · median $73/acre · +5.4% vs 2025 (matched counties) · data refreshed 2026-10-06

$73
MIDDLE COUNTY ROSE
The median New York county paid $73 an acre for non-irrigated cropland in 2026, +5.4% vs 2025 across the same 44 counties. Highest county: Suffolk at $146. 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 New York ARC or PLC by county.

$73
median rent /ac · 2026
non-irrigated cropland, 47 counties
+5.4%
vs 2025
median of 44 matched counties
+43.8%
vs 2017
median of 44 matched counties
$146
top county
Suffolk
$22.25
pasture median · 2026
permanent pasture, 16 counties, shown apart

Insuring pasture or hay ground? See PRF rainfall insurance in New York: 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. 35 of 47 New York 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: New York’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, the rent this site means by “rent”. 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
Albany$48 (2024)n/a$12 (2023)n/aends 2021
Allegany$85n/a$26 (2024)-2.9%128 bu
Broome$65.50n/a$13 (2009)-5.8%162 bu
Cattaraugus$83.50n/a$33 (2024)n/a154 bu
Cayuga$133n/a$16.50 (2024)+17.7%166 bu
Chautauqua$95.50$125 (2014)$26.50+20.1%170 bu
Chemung$55n/a$20 (2014)-14.7%ends 2022
Chenango$63n/a$14.50+2.4%137 bu
Clinton$62.50n/a$17.50 (2019)+14.7%n/a
Columbia$54$71.50 (2019)$18+17.4%145 bu
Cortland$75.50n/a$39.50+4.1%158 bu
Delaware$49.50n/a$15 (2025)+10.0%ends 2022
Dutchess$54$32.50 (2021)$20 (2020)+33.3%mixed
Erie$86.50$90.50$23+10.2%mixed
Essex$45n/an/an/an/a
Franklin$64n/a$14 (2021)-16.9%n/a
Fulton$49.50n/a$127-64.4%n/a
Genesee$131n/an/a+6.5%172 bu
Greene$35.50 (2025)n/a$4.50 (2010)n/an/a
Herkimer$72.50n/a$40+42.2%146 bu
Jefferson$49n/a$30.50+4.3%146 bu
Lewis$79n/a$36+10.5%146 bu
Livingston$141n/a$74 (2022)-8.4%174 bu
Madison$68.50$57 (2021)$35+7.0%148 bu
Monroe$80.50$90 (2016)$56 (2010)-12.0%180 bu
Montgomery$55n/a$18.50-19.7%152 bu
Niagara$74.50$66.50 (2012)$19 (2009)+2.1%mixed
Oneida$73n/a$13.50+28.1%158 bu
Onondaga$80.50$62.50 (2013)$19.50 (2021)+1.3%mixed
Ontario$107n/a$11.50 (2016)+17.6%163 bu
Orange$77$216 (2024)$21.50 (2025)n/amixed
Orleans$128$70 (2010)n/a+2.4%184 bu
Oswego$60n/a$16 (2019)+30.4%150 bu
Otsego$48.50n/a$21.50+16.9%162 bu
Rensselaer$52.50n/a$61.50 (2025)-17.3%150 bu
Saratoga$65n/a$12 (2022)+9.2%165 bu
Schenectady$35 (2023)n/an/an/an/a
Schoharie$38$57 (2021)$18+33.3%166 bu
Schuyler$56n/a$33 (2025)+10.9%148 bu
Seneca$89.50n/a$19 (2011)+38.8%168 bu
St. Lawrence$75n/a$17 (2023)+5.6%153 bu
Steuben$57.50n/a$15+22.3%142 bu
Suffolk$146$288n/a+4.3%mixed
Sullivan$48 (2023)n/a$8 (2009)n/an/a
Tioga$49n/a$15 (2023)+32.4%161 bu
Tompkins$69n/a$48.50 (2024)+7.0%152 bu
Ulster$104$151 (2023)$14.50 (2014)+38.7%132 bu
Washington$88n/a$20 (2025)+28.5%145 bu
Wayne$94n/a$22.50 (2009)-14.5%168 bu
Wyoming$126n/a$50.50 (2021)+14.5%164 bu
Yates$111n/a$17-7.5%159 bu

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.

New York median county rent by year

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

2008
$38.5035 co.
2009
$3647 co.
2010
$3546 co.
2011
$3944 co.
2012
$39.5043 co.
2013
$44.7544 co.
2014
$45.5041 co.
2015no survey
2016
$51.2546 co.
2017
$5244 co.
2018no survey
2019
$53.5037 co.
2020
$55.2540 co.
2021
$54.5048 co.
2022
$59.5043 co.
2023
$61.2550 co.
2024
$67.7546 co.
2025
$68.5045 co.
2026
$7347 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 York for 2026?

The middle New York county pays $73 per acre for non-irrigated cropland: half of the 47 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 Suffolk ($146), Livingston ($141), Cayuga ($133); lowest Schoharie ($38), Essex ($45), Otsego ($48.50). The county mean is a survey reference point, not a rate card.

How much does pasture rent for per acre in New York?

The median USDA NASS county cash rent for permanent pasture in New York is $22.25 per acre across the 16 counties with a published 2026 pasture rate. Highest Fulton ($127), Herkimer ($40), Cortland ($39.50); lowest Oneida ($13.50), Chenango ($14.50), Steuben ($15). Each county's pasture rate is in its own column in the county table below.

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

Comparing the same 44 counties published in both years, the median non-irrigated cropland rent moved +5.4% year over year.

Why is my New York 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.