Tennessee farmland cash rent by county
What an acre of farmland rents for in each Tennessee county, from the USDA’s 2026 county cash rents survey.
Statewide in 2026, cropland rents for $121 an acre and is valued at $6,400 an acre, so a year’s rent is 1.9% of its value; pasture rents for $30 an acre and is valued at $5,910 an acre, so a year’s rent is 0.51% of its value (USDA NASS state estimates).
| # | County | Cropland | Irrigated cropland | Pasture |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lake County | $196 | $223 | Not collected |
| 2 | Robertson County | $187 | Not collected | $47 |
| 3 | Sumner County | $180 | Not collected | $33.50 |
| 4 | Obion County | $178 | Not collected | $47 |
| 5 | Franklin County | $173 | Not collected | $49.50 |
| 6 | Dyer County | $161 | Not collected | $42 |
| 7 | Tipton County | $156 | $172 | $55 |
| 8 | Lincoln County | $155 | Not collected | $29 |
| 9 | Gibson County | $153 | Not collected | $55.50 |
| 10 | Haywood County | $152 | $205 | $40.50 (2025) |
| 11 | Weakley County | $145 | Not collected | $49 |
| 12 | Crockett County | $143 | Not collected | $28.50 |
| 13 | Madison County | $142 | Not collected | $26.50 (2025) |
| 14 | Henry County | $141 | Not collected | $35.50 |
| 15 | Lauderdale County | $135 | Not collected | $52 |
| 16 | Macon County | $135 | Not collected | $33.50 |
| 17 | Montgomery County | $132 | Not collected | $33.50 |
| 18 | Coffee County | $131 | Not collected | $46.50 |
| 19 | Lawrence County | $131 | Not collected | $26.50 |
| 20 | Smith County | $130 | Not collected | $19.50 |
| 21 | Carroll County | $127 | Not collected | $43.50 |
| 22 | Shelby County | $120 (2025) | Not collected | $36.50 |
| 23 | Warren County | $115 | $245 (2024) | $55.50 |
| 24 | Hardeman County | $110 | Not collected | $30 |
| 25 | DeKalb County | $106 | Not collected | $43 |
| 26 | Fayette County | $105 | $125 | $24.50 |
| 27 | Cumberland County | $94 | Not collected | $40.50 |
| 28 | Perry County | $94 | Not collected | $25.50 |
| 29 | Cannon County | $93.50 | Not collected | $32 |
| 30 | Cheatham County | $93.50 (2024) | Not collected | Not collected |
| 31 | Henderson County | $92.50 | Not collected | $42.50 |
| 32 | Chester County | $92 | Not collected | Not collected |
| 33 | Hardin County | $91.50 | Not collected | $18 |
| 34 | Maury County | $86.50 | Not collected | $22.50 |
| 35 | Bedford County | $81.50 | Not collected | $20 |
| 36 | Bledsoe County | $79.50 | Not collected | $41 |
| 37 | Putnam County | $75 | Not collected | $40 |
| 38 | Decatur County | $75 | Not collected | $38 |
| 39 | Cocke County | $75 | $275 (2024) | $25.50 |
| 40 | Wayne County | $73 | Not collected | $29 |
| 41 | Benton County | $73 | Not collected | Not collected |
| 42 | McMinn County | $70 | Not collected | $40.50 |
| 43 | Loudon County | $70 | Not collected | $39.50 |
| 44 | Marshall County | $70 | Not collected | $19 |
| 45 | Overton County | $68.50 | Not collected | $28 |
| 46 | McNairy County | $65 | Not collected | $24.50 |
| 47 | Rutherford County | $65 | Not collected | $22 |
| 48 | Giles County | $64.50 | Not collected | $31 |
| 49 | Houston County | $64.50 | Not collected | $21.50 |
| 50 | Stewart County | $64.50 | Not collected | $16.50 (2025) |
| 51 | Washington County | $63.50 | Not collected | $31 |
| 52 | Humphreys County | $61.50 | Not collected | $17 |
| 53 | Dickson County | $61 | Not collected | $18 |
| 54 | Marion County | $59 | Not collected | $24.50 |
| 55 | Unicoi County | $58.50 | Not collected | Not collected |
| 56 | Jefferson County | $57.50 | Not collected | $22.50 |
| 57 | Greene County | $57 | Not collected | $36.50 |
| 58 | Polk County | $56.50 (2025) | Not collected | $27 |
| 59 | White County | $56.50 | Not collected | $27 |
| 60 | Blount County | $56 | Not collected | $28 |
| 61 | Wilson County | $55.50 | Not collected | $29.50 |
| 62 | Moore County | $55 | Not collected | $16.50 |
| 63 | Grundy County | $53.50 | Not collected | $33.50 |
| 64 | Williamson County | $53 | Not collected | $23 |
| 65 | Monroe County | $52.50 | Not collected | $33.50 |
| 66 | Morgan County | $52.50 | Not collected | $16 |
| 67 | Hamblen County | $48.50 | Not collected | $22 |
| 68 | Sequatchie County | $48.50 (2025) | Not collected | Not collected |
| 69 | Trousdale County | $41 | Not collected | $33.50 |
| 70 | Jackson County | $40 | Not collected | $35.50 |
| 71 | Pickett County | $40 | Not collected | $33.50 |
| 72 | Hickman County | $40 | Not collected | $30 |
| 73 | Clay County | $40 | Not collected | $21.50 |
| 74 | Fentress County | $39.50 | Not collected | $32.50 |
| 75 | Roane County | $38 | Not collected | $37 |
| 76 | Bradley County | $38 | Not collected | $24 |
| 77 | Knox County | $35.50 | Not collected | $19.50 |
| 78 | Carter County | $35 | Not collected | $21 |
| 79 | Sevier County | $35 | Not collected | $19.50 |
| 80 | Sullivan County | $34.50 | Not collected | $33.50 |
| 81 | Lewis County | $31 | Not collected | $17 |
| 82 | Johnson County | $30 | Not collected | $17.50 |
| 83 | Claiborne County | $29 | Not collected | $12 |
| 84 | Hamilton County | $28.50 | Not collected | $26.50 |
| 85 | Grainger County | $27 | Not collected | $26 |
| 86 | Anderson County | $26.50 | Not collected | $25.50 |
| 87 | Van Buren County | $26 (2025) | Not collected | $22.50 |
| 88 | Rhea County | $26 | Not collected | $22 |
| 89 | Hawkins County | $25.50 | Not collected | $23 |
| 90 | Meigs County | $25 | Not collected | $21.50 |
| 91 | Union County | $25 | Not collected | $12 |
| 92 | Hancock County | $23 | Not collected | $20 |
| 93 | Campbell County | $22 (2025) | Not collected | Not collected |
| 94 | Scott County | $20 | Not collected | $13 |
| 95 | Davidson County | Not collected | Not collected | $30.50 (2024) |
There is no rent-to-price column for Tennessee yet.
NASS withholds a county’s figure when too few farms answered, and pools some counties together; those counties are left out (95 of Tennessee’s counties have a figure).
Rent: USDA NASS county cash rents survey, 2026 (released August 21, 2026), public domain.