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California farmland value and cash rent on the Land Market Index
California's average acre combines irrigated specialty-crop land in the Central Valley and coastal valleys with a large area of rangeland. It is not the price of a particular orchard or ranch.
California farm real estate averaged $14,100 per acre in 2026, above the U.S. figure of $4,500.
2026 averages
- Farm real estate
- $14,100 / acre
- +2.9% from 2025
- Cropland
- $18,430 / acre
- +2.7% from 2025
- Pasture
- $4,250 / acre
- +4.2% from 2025
- Cropland cash rent
- $331 / acre
- −4.3% from 2025
- Pasture cash rent
- $16.5 / acre
- +3.1% from 2025
Dollars per acre. A state average is not the price of a specific farm.
Annual estimates
| Series | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2025–2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farm real estate | $12,600 | $13,100 | $13,400 | $13,700 | $14,100 | +2.9% |
| Cropland | $16,170 | $16,820 | $17,330 | $17,940 | $18,430 | +2.7% |
| Pasture | $3,730 | $3,860 | $3,930 | $4,080 | $4,250 | +4.2% |
| Cropland cash rent | $331 | $344 | $335 | $346 | $331 | −4.3% |
| Irrigated cropland cash rent | $465 | $486 | $484 | $483 | $470 | −2.7% |
| Non-irrigated cropland cash rent | $37 | $38 | $27.5 | $40 | $39 | −2.5% |
| Pasture cash rent | $13 | $13 | $14 | $16 | $16.5 | +3.1% |
What the rows mean
- Farm real estate
- Average value of all land and buildings used for agricultural production, including dwellings, if sold under current market conditions with a reasonable time on the market.
- Cropland
- Average value of land used for field crops, vegetables, or hay, including idle cropland and cropland in conservation programs. Land that alternates between crops and pasture is valued as cropland.
- Pasture
- Average value of land normally grazed by livestock. Animals do not have to be on the land during the survey year.
- Cropland cash rent
- Average cash rent for cropland. NASS measures this as rent expense in dollars per acre. Share rents are not included.
- Irrigated cropland cash rent
- Average cash rent for irrigated cropland, in dollars per acre.
- Non-irrigated cropland cash rent
- Average cash rent for non-irrigated cropland, in dollars per acre.
- Pasture cash rent
- Average cash rent for pastureland, in dollars per acre.
Counties
- Alameda County $13,473 2022 census
- Butte County $13,981 2022 census
- Colusa County $11,119 2022 census
- Fresno County $16,378 2022 census
- Glenn County $10,262 2022 census
- Humboldt County $4,578 2022 census
- Imperial County $11,892 2022 census
- Kern County $10,539 2022 census
- Kings County $10,391 2022 census
- Lassen County $4,493 2022 census
- Madera County $13,239 2022 census
- Mendocino County $6,511 2022 census
- Merced County $16,527 2022 census
- Modoc County $4,267 2022 census
- Monterey County $12,799 2022 census
- Napa County $61,295 2022 census
- Riverside County $19,831 2022 census
- Sacramento County $15,766 2022 census
- San Benito County $5,362 2022 census
- San Diego County $36,053 2022 census
- San Joaquin County $20,649 2022 census
- San Luis Obispo County $12,118 2022 census
- Santa Barbara County $21,172 2022 census
- Santa Clara County $13,303 2022 census
- Shasta County $10,930 2022 census
- Siskiyou County $4,174 2022 census
- Solano County $12,901 2022 census
- Sonoma County $30,475 2022 census
- Stanislaus County $20,208 2022 census
- Sutter County $14,191 2022 census
- Tehama County $5,479 2022 census
- Tulare County $15,617 2022 census
- Ventura County $28,278 2022 census
- Yolo County $10,780 2022 census
Nearby states
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Sources
- Land Values 2026 Summary, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, released 2026-07-31. Text tables. ESMIS archive.
- Quick Stats cash rent expense, dollars per acre, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. Retrieved 2026-10-25.
State and U.S. survey estimates. Blank cells were not published. Year-over-year rent changes in this file are calculated from those estimates. Land-value changes are the percents printed in the summary. Rent changes are calculated from the published yearly estimates. U.S. government figures are public domain and were not adjusted. A blank or “withheld” cell was not published.