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Madison County farmland

$142 an acre a year

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

Cash rent in Madison 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 Madison County
LandRent an acreYearIn 2022
Cropland, non-irrigated$1422026$119
Irrigated cropland$1952023Not published by NASS
Pasture$26.502025$24

Cash rent in Madison 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 Madison County, by survey year: non-irrigated cropland, irrigated cropland, pasture
YearNon-irrigatedIrrigatedPasture
2026$142Not publishedNot published
2025$129Not published$26.50
2024$129Not published$28
2023$139$195$26
2022$119Not published$24
2021$128Not published$29
2020$122Not published$25
2019$120$185$21
2018Not publishedNot publishedNot published
2017$119$180$18.50
2016$103$160$22.50
2015Not publishedNot publishedNot published
2014$96Not published$26.50
2013$97$168$25.50
2012$109$142$26
2011$98Not published$24.50
2010$94.50Not published$26
2009$93Not publishedNot published

What farmland in Madison County is worth

  • Farmland value, land and buildings$3,099 an acreAverage per farm acre, 2022 Census of Agriculture
  • Land in farms166,694 acres2022 Census of Agriculture

Crop yields in Madison County

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

County crop yields in Madison County
CropYield an acreYearFive-year averageAcres harvested
Corn170.5 bu2025166.3 bu25,600
Soybeans45.3 bu202549.8 bu46,500
Winter wheat80.5 bu202577.3 bu8,530

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

Share of the acres of the county's 3,608 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 pasture16%
  • Mapped as soybeans14%
  • Mapped as corn11%
  • Mapped as cotton4.4%
  • Mapped as winter wheat, then soybeans3.3%
  • Mapped as fallow or idle cropland2.3%
  • Mapped as other crops1%
  • Not cropland at the center (woods, water, buildings)48%

USDA Cropland Data Layer 2025, shares of farm-parcel acres

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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.