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Clay County farmland

$65 an acre a year

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

Cash rent in Clay 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 Clay County
LandRent an acreYearIn 2022
Cropland, non-irrigated$652024Not published by NASS
Pasture$28.502021Not published by NASS

Cash rent in Clay County since 2021

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 Clay County, by survey year: non-irrigated cropland, irrigated cropland, pasture
YearNon-irrigated
2024$65
2023Not published
2022Not published
2021$40

What farmland in Clay County is worth

  • Farmland value, land and buildings$6,386 an acreAverage per farm acre, 2022 Census of Agriculture
  • Land in farms14,515 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.