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Sacramento County farmland

$67.50 an acre a year

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

Cash rent in Sacramento 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 Sacramento County
LandRent an acreYearIn 2022
Cropland, non-irrigated$67.502026Not published by NASS
Irrigated cropland$2762026$249
Pasture$252026$28

Cash rent in Sacramento 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 Sacramento County, by survey year: non-irrigated cropland, irrigated cropland, pasture
YearNon-irrigatedIrrigatedPasture
2026$67.50$276$25
2025Not published$307$24
2024$50$339$24.50
2023$42$279$23.50
2022Not published$249$28
2021$38.50$245$22.50
2020$38$400$29
2019$22$280$28.50
2018Not publishedNot publishedNot published
2017$30.50$247$30
2016$40$253$37
2015Not publishedNot publishedNot published
2014$40$243$18.50
2013$44.50$243$18.50
2012$34$249$20
2011$28.50$178$21
2010$28.50$179$20.50
2009Not published$250$23
2008Not published$213$25

What farmland in Sacramento County is worth

  • Farmland value, land and buildings$15,766 an acreAverage per farm acre, 2022 Census of Agriculture
  • Land in farms256,617 acres2022 Census of Agriculture

Crop yields in Sacramento County

Bushels an acre harvested, from the USDA's county crop estimates.

County crop yields in Sacramento County
CropYield an acreYearFive-year averageAcres harvested
Corn201.6 bu2023204 bu4,350
Winter wheat71.2 bu202374.4 bu1,210

Satellite crop map of Sacramento County's farm parcels, 2025

Share of the acres of the county's 2,674 parcels coded as farm use, by the class the USDA Cropland Data Layer (a satellite land-cover map) gives each parcel's center. Land cover, not planted acres.

  • Mapped as grass and pasture41%
  • Mapped as grapes15%
  • Mapped as corn4.8%
  • Mapped as alfalfa4.4%
  • Mapped as hay (not alfalfa)3.7%
  • Mapped as rice3.1%
  • Mapped as other crops19%
  • Not cropland at the center (woods, water, buildings)8.4%

USDA Cropland Data Layer 2025, shares of farm-parcel acres

Farmland in nearby counties

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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.

Crop yields

USDA NASS county crop estimates, Quick Stats file of Oct 31, 2026. Public domain.

Satellite crop map

USDA NASS Cropland Data Layer 2025, a satellite land-cover map, read at each farm parcel's map point (the most common class of the 3 by 3 cells around it); parcels whose land type on the county roll is agricultural; read Oct 18, 2026. Shares are of those parcels' acres, each parcel counted whole under the class at its center, so they are not planted acres: USDA's planted and harvested acreage is the NASS county estimate (the yields table where it prints). Public domain.

Data edition

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