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Rio Grande County farmland

$26 an acre a year

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

Cash rent in Rio Grande 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 Rio Grande County
LandRent an acreYearIn 2022
Cropland, non-irrigated$262023Not published by NASS
Irrigated cropland$2202026$193
Pasture$22.502025$14

Cash rent in Rio Grande County since 2009

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 Rio Grande County, by survey year: non-irrigated cropland, irrigated cropland, pasture
YearNon-irrigatedIrrigatedPasture
2026Not published$220Not published
2025Not published$205$22.50
2024Not published$199$19
2023$26$200$16
2022Not published$193$14
2021$54.50$192$10
2020Not published$157Not published
2019Not published$170Not published
2018Not publishedNot publishedNot published
2017Not published$166Not published
2016Not published$130Not published
2015Not publishedNot publishedNot published
2014$18$184Not published
2013Not published$133Not published
2012Not published$161Not published
2011$31$89$5.70
2010Not published$110$8.20
2009Not published$125$8

What farmland in Rio Grande County is worth

  • Farmland value, land and buildings$5,672 an acreAverage per farm acre, 2022 Census of Agriculture
  • Land in farms174,641 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.