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Kane County farmland

$274 an acre a year

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

Cash rent in Kane 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 Kane County
LandRent an acreYearIn 2022
Cropland, non-irrigated$2742026$265
Irrigated cropland$2382026$233
Pasture$902009Not published by NASS

Cash rent in Kane 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 Kane County, by survey year: non-irrigated cropland, irrigated cropland, pasture
YearNon-irrigatedIrrigated
2026$274$238
2025$281$260
2024$300Not published
2023$251$258
2022$265$233
2021$243Not published
2020$237Not published
2019$241Not published
2018Not publishedNot published
2017$244Not published
2016$253Not published
2015Not publishedNot published
2014$228Not published
2013$215Not published
2012$221Not published
2011$195Not published
2010$170Not published
2009$166Not published
2008$159Not published

What farmland in Kane County is worth

  • Farmland value, land and buildings$12,276 an acreAverage per farm acre, 2022 Census of Agriculture
  • Land in farms146,717 acres2022 Census of Agriculture

Crop yields in Kane County

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

County crop yields in Kane County
CropYield an acreYearFive-year averageAcres harvested
Corn233.7 bu2024208 bu71,700
Soybeans64.6 bu202564.2 bu52,100
Winter wheat97.3 bu202587.5 bu1,840

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

Share of the acres of the county's 7,286 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 corn45%
  • Mapped as soybeans32%
  • Mapped as grass and pasture7.7%
  • Mapped as alfalfa1.7%
  • Mapped as hay (not alfalfa)1.2%
  • Mapped as winter wheat1.2%
  • Mapped as other crops0.8%
  • Not cropland at the center (woods, water, buildings)11%

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

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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.