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Butte County farmland

$23.50 an acre a year

Cash rent for non-irrigated cropland, USDA NASS county survey, 2023

Cash rent in Butte County

What a farmer pays a landowner a year for an acre, from the USDA's county survey: the latest year NASS published for each kind of land.

Cash rent per acre a year in Butte County
LandRent an acreYearIn 2022
Cropland, non-irrigated$23.502023Not published by NASS
Irrigated cropland$4372026$393
Pasture$202026$21.50

Cash rent in Butte County since 2008

Cropland and pasture rent an acre a year, every year the USDA's county survey published, newest first. "Not published" is a year NASS skipped or pooled the county; it is left blank, not estimated.

Cash rent per acre a year in Butte County, by survey year: non-irrigated cropland, irrigated cropland, pasture
YearNon-irrigatedIrrigatedPasture
2026Not published$437$20
2025Not publishedNot published$21.50
2024Not publishedNot published$18
2023$23.50$504$14.50
2022Not published$393$21.50
2021Not published$340$20
2020Not published$350$19.50
2019$20$350$25.50
2018Not publishedNot publishedNot published
2017Not published$353$65.50
2016Not published$362Not published
2015Not publishedNot publishedNot published
2014$29.50$305$19.50
2013$38$307$13
2012Not published$236$9.40
2011$41.50$265$11.50
2010$40.50$277$11
2009Not published$330Not published
2008Not published$235Not published

What farmland in Butte County is worth

  • Farmland value, land and buildings$13,981 an acreAverage per farm acre, 2022 Census of Agriculture
  • Land in farms388,383 acres2022 Census of Agriculture

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About these numbersSources, dates and how these figures are built

Cash rent

USDA NASS county cash rents survey, released Aug 21, 2026. NASS withholds a county's figure when too few farms answer. Public domain.

Land value

USDA NASS 2022 Census of Agriculture, released Feb 13, 2024. Public domain.

Data edition

Figures as of Oct 31, 2026. Area figures, not any one parcel's.