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San Joaquin County farmland

$79.50 an acre a year

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

Cash rent in San Joaquin 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 San Joaquin County
LandRent an acreYearIn 2022
Cropland, non-irrigated$79.502023Not published by NASS
Irrigated cropland$4252026$421
Pasture$24.502023Not published by NASS

Cash rent in San Joaquin 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 San Joaquin County, by survey year: non-irrigated cropland, irrigated cropland, pasture
YearNon-irrigatedIrrigatedPasture
2026Not published$425Not published
2025Not published$425Not published
2024Not publishedNot publishedNot published
2023$79.50Not published$24.50
2022Not published$421Not published
2021$34.50Not published$16
2020Not published$380$15.50
2019Not published$431$23
2018Not publishedNot publishedNot published
2017$38$350$30
2016$32.50$300Not published
2015Not publishedNot publishedNot published
2014$53$285Not published
2013Not published$260$19.50
2012Not published$275$15
2011Not published$279$25
2010$49$259$20
2009$66$327$19
2008Not published$285Not published

What farmland in San Joaquin County is worth

  • Farmland value, land and buildings$20,649 an acreAverage per farm acre, 2022 Census of Agriculture
  • Land in farms862,356 acres2022 Census of Agriculture

Crop yields in San Joaquin County

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

County crop yields in San Joaquin County
CropYield an acreYearFive-year averageAcres harvested
Corn206.8 bu2023Not published8,950
Winter wheat89.6 bu202583.9 bu3,350

Satellite crop map of San Joaquin County's farm parcels, 2025

Share of the acres of the county's 11,741 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 pasture20%
  • Mapped as almonds17%
  • Mapped as grapes15%
  • Mapped as walnuts10%
  • Mapped as alfalfa4.7%
  • Mapped as corn3.7%
  • Mapped as other crops24%
  • Not cropland at the center (woods, water, buildings)5.6%

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.