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Lake County farmland

$125 an acre a year

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

Cash rent in Lake 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 Lake County
LandRent an acreYearIn 2022
Cropland, non-irrigated$1252026$112
Irrigated cropland$1762011Not published by NASS
Pasture$1002020Not published by NASS

Cash rent in Lake 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 Lake County, by survey year: non-irrigated cropland, irrigated cropland, pasture
YearNon-irrigatedIrrigatedPasture
2026$125Not publishedNot published
2025$141Not publishedNot published
2024$120Not publishedNot published
2023$129Not publishedNot published
2022$112Not publishedNot published
2021$119Not publishedNot published
2020Not publishedNot published$100
2019$118Not publishedNot published
2018Not publishedNot publishedNot published
2017Not publishedNot published$66.50
2016Not publishedNot published$99.50
2015Not publishedNot publishedNot published
2014Not publishedNot publishedNot published
2013Not publishedNot publishedNot published
2012Not publishedNot publishedNot published
2011Not published$176Not published
2010Not publishedNot publishedNot published
2009Not published$196$75

What farmland in Lake County is worth

  • Farmland value, land and buildings$15,913 an acreAverage per farm acre, 2022 Census of Agriculture
  • Land in farms32,226 acres2022 Census of Agriculture

Crop yields in Lake County

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

County crop yields in Lake County
CropYield an acreYearFive-year averageAcres harvested
Corn201.4 bu2025182.5 bu7,970
Soybeans60 bu202554.5 bu6,500
Winter wheat96.6 bu2025Not published900

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

Share of the acres of the county's 3,256 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 corn25%
  • Mapped as soybeans17%
  • Mapped as grass and pasture14%
  • Mapped as alfalfa2.6%
  • Mapped as winter wheat1.6%
  • Mapped as hay (not alfalfa)1.5%
  • Not cropland at the center (woods, water, buildings)38%

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

Farmland in nearby counties

Cook CountyMcHenry County

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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.