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El Paso County farmland

$6.70 an acre a year

Cash rent for non-irrigated cropland, USDA NASS county survey, 2024

Cash rent in El Paso 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 El Paso County
LandRent an acreYearIn 2022
Cropland, non-irrigated$6.702024Not published by NASS
Irrigated cropland$802017Not published by NASS
Pasture$5.702026$5.40

Cash rent in El Paso 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 El Paso County, by survey year: non-irrigated cropland, irrigated cropland, pasture
YearNon-irrigatedIrrigatedPasture
2026Not publishedNot published$5.70
2025Not publishedNot published$6.30
2024$6.70Not published$6.20
2023$7.90Not published$8
2022Not publishedNot published$5.40
2021Not publishedNot published$6.80
2020Not publishedNot published$6.60
2019Not publishedNot published$6.70
2018Not publishedNot publishedNot published
2017Not published$80$5
2016Not publishedNot published$4.70
2015Not publishedNot publishedNot published
2014Not published$120$4
2013$13.50Not published$4.80
2012Not publishedNot published$4.20
2011Not publishedNot published$4
2010$31Not published$4.80
2009Not publishedNot published$6.20
2008Not publishedNot published$8

What farmland in El Paso County is worth

  • Farmland value, land and buildings$2,688 an acreAverage per farm acre, 2022 Census of Agriculture
  • Land in farms490,740 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.