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Orange County farmland

$209 an acre a year

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

Cash rent in Orange 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 Orange County
LandRent an acreYearIn 2022
Cropland, non-irrigated$2092026$181
Pasture$37.502019Not published by NASS

Cash rent in Orange 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 Orange County, by survey year: non-irrigated cropland, irrigated cropland, pasture
YearNon-irrigatedPasture
2026$209Not published
2025$217Not published
2024$238Not published
2023$197Not published
2022$181Not published
2021$161Not published
2020$164Not published
2019$160$37.50
2018Not publishedNot published
2017$133Not published
2016$140Not published
2015Not publishedNot published
2014Not published$32
2013Not publishedNot published
2012$121Not published
2011$114Not published
2010$109Not published
2009$109$14
2008$96.50Not published

What farmland in Orange County is worth

  • Farmland value, land and buildings$6,544 an acreAverage per farm acre, 2022 Census of Agriculture
  • Land in farms95,336 acres2022 Census of Agriculture

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

Share of the acres of the county's 7,482 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 pasture17%
  • Mapped as soybeans13%
  • Mapped as corn13%
  • Mapped as fallow or idle cropland1%
  • Mapped as alfalfa0.7%
  • Mapped as other crops1.1%
  • Not cropland at the center (woods, water, buildings)54%

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.

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.