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Placer County farmland

$41.50 an acre a year

Cash rent for non-irrigated cropland, USDA NASS county survey, 2026

Cash rent in Placer 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 Placer County
LandRent an acreYearIn 2022
Cropland, non-irrigated$41.502026$47.50
Irrigated cropland$2262025Not published by NASS
Pasture$26.502026$21.50

Cash rent in Placer County since 2010

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 Placer County, by survey year: non-irrigated cropland, irrigated cropland, pasture
YearNon-irrigatedIrrigatedPasture
2026$41.50Not published$26.50
2025Not published$226$26.50
2024$40.50$225$25.50
2023$38.50Not published$18.50
2022$47.50Not published$21.50
2021$40$260$19
2020$40$300$25
2019Not published$250$27
2018Not publishedNot publishedNot published
2017Not published$267$21.50
2016$23.50$267$21
2015Not publishedNot publishedNot published
2014$21.50$239$17
2013$20Not publishedNot published
2012Not publishedNot publishedNot published
2011$41.50$244$20
2010$48$253$22.50

What farmland in Placer County is worth

  • Farmland value, land and buildings$12,188 an acreAverage per farm acre, 2022 Census of Agriculture
  • Land in farms84,898 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.