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Lake County farmland

$196 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$1962026$152
Irrigated cropland$2232026$182

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-irrigatedIrrigated
2026$196$223
2025$171$202
2024$171$205
2023$167$185
2022$152$182
2021$151Not published
2020$136$160
2019Not publishedNot published
2018Not publishedNot published
2017Not publishedNot published
2016$146Not published
2015Not publishedNot published
2014Not publishedNot published
2013$117$166
2012$117$161
2011$101$161
2010$101Not published
2009$101$158

What farmland in Lake County is worth

  • Farmland value, land and buildings$4,535 an acreAverage per farm acre, 2022 Census of Agriculture
  • Land in farms61,488 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
Corn157.8 bu2025167.5 bu9,480
Soybeans46.5 bu202551.1 bu41,900
Winter wheat73.9 bu202573 bu5,900

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

Share of the acres of the county's 742 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 soybeans41%
  • Mapped as corn14%
  • Mapped as winter wheat, then soybeans9.8%
  • Mapped as fallow or idle cropland5.3%
  • Mapped as cotton4.3%
  • Not cropland at the center (woods, water, buildings)25%

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.

Data edition

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