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Montgomery County farmland

$215 an acre a year

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

Cash rent in Montgomery 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 Montgomery County
LandRent an acreYearIn 2022
Cropland, non-irrigated$2152026$175
Pasture$452017Not published by NASS

Cash rent in Montgomery 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 Montgomery County, by survey year: non-irrigated cropland, irrigated cropland, pasture
YearNon-irrigated
2026$215
2025$198
2024$201
2023$208
2022$175
2021$174
2020$169
2019$170
2018Not published
2017$161
2016$153
2015Not published
2014$153
2013$146
2012$129
2011$110
2010$104
2009$102
2008$98

What farmland in Montgomery County is worth

  • Farmland value, land and buildings$7,918 an acreAverage per farm acre, 2022 Census of Agriculture
  • Land in farms118,582 acres2022 Census of Agriculture

What farm surveys say about Montgomery County's region

Opinion surveys of farm managers, appraisers and lenders, for the survey region the county is in.

  • Cropland value, Southwest Ohio$15,941 an acreAverage cropland, 2026 (expected) (top $20,286; bottom $12,640) · The Ohio State University Extension (Barry Ward), Ohio State Western Ohio Cropland Values and Cash Rents, 2025-26 edition, August 2026
  • Cropland cash rent, Southwest Ohio$260 an acre a yearAverage cropland, 2026, projected (the survey's projected rental rate) (top $319; bottom $208) · The Ohio State University Extension (Barry Ward), Ohio State Western Ohio Cropland Values and Cash Rents, 2025-26 edition, August 2026
  • Pasture value, Southwest Ohio$8,162 an acreImproved, non-rotation pasture, 2026 (expected) · The Ohio State University Extension (Barry Ward), Ohio State Western Ohio Cropland Values and Cash Rents, 2025-26 edition, August 2026
  • Pasture cash rent, Southwest Ohio$99 an acre a yearImproved, non-rotation pasture, 2026, projected (the survey's projected rental rate) · The Ohio State University Extension (Barry Ward), Ohio State Western Ohio Cropland Values and Cash Rents, 2025-26 edition, August 2026

Crop yields in Montgomery County

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

County crop yields in Montgomery County
CropYield an acreYearFive-year averageAcres harvested
Corn180.7 bu2025181.3 bu31,900
Soybeans52.4 bu202553.5 bu43,400
Winter wheat83.9 bu202589.8 bu2,230

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

Share of the acres of the county's 3,549 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 soybeans40%
  • Mapped as corn30%
  • Mapped as grass and pasture12%
  • Mapped as fallow or idle cropland1.5%
  • Mapped as winter wheat, then soybeans1%
  • Mapped as alfalfa0.9%
  • Mapped as other crops1.7%
  • Not cropland at the center (woods, water, buildings)13%

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.

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.

Farm survey

The Ohio State University Extension (Barry Ward): Ohio State Western Ohio Cropland Values and Cash Rents, 2025-26 edition, August 2026. An opinion survey of farm managers, landowners, farmers, lenders and appraisers, January to April 2026 (132 responses); figures copied from the publisher on 2026-10-17.

Data edition

Figures as of Oct 31, 2026. Area figures, not any one parcel's.