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Shelby County farmland

$120 an acre a year

Cash rent for non-irrigated cropland, USDA NASS county survey, 2025

Cash rent in Shelby 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 Shelby County
LandRent an acreYearIn 2022
Cropland, non-irrigated$1202025$93.50
Pasture$36.502026Not published by NASS

Cash rent in Shelby 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 Shelby County, by survey year: non-irrigated cropland, irrigated cropland, pasture
YearNon-irrigatedPasture
2026Not published$36.50
2025$120Not published
2024Not publishedNot published
2023$100Not published
2022$93.50Not published
2021$99.50Not published
2020Not published$25.50
2019Not published$24.50
2018Not publishedNot published
2017Not published$20.50
2016$101$23.50
2015Not publishedNot published
2014Not published$23
2013$103$24
2012$105Not published
2011$83.50Not published
2010Not publishedNot published
2009$75.50Not published

What farmland in Shelby County is worth

  • Farmland value, land and buildings$5,264 an acreAverage per farm acre, 2022 Census of Agriculture
  • Land in farms90,742 acres2022 Census of Agriculture

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

Share of the acres of the county's 2,791 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 soybeans22%
  • Mapped as grass and pasture22%
  • Mapped as corn3.7%
  • Mapped as cotton3.6%
  • Mapped as fallow or idle cropland3.6%
  • Mapped as winter wheat, then soybeans1.6%
  • Mapped as other crops0.6%
  • Not cropland at the center (woods, water, buildings)43%

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

Farmland in nearby counties

Fayette CountyTipton County

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Tennessee farmland values by countyThe data (CSV, JSON)Shelby County overviewCheck a parcel's soils and crops

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.

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.