Corn Belt
Iowa farmland value and cash rent on the Land Market Index
Iowa's land market is mostly high-quality corn and soybean cropland, with pasture a smaller share. County rents can sit well away from the state cash-rent average.
Iowa farm real estate averaged $10,100 per acre in 2026, above the U.S. figure of $4,500.
2026 averages
- Farm real estate
- $10,100 / acre
- +3.2% from 2025
- Cropland
- $10,700 / acre
- +3.9% from 2025
- Pasture
- $3,800 / acre
- +4.1% from 2025
- Cropland cash rent
- $271 / acre
- −1.1% from 2025
- Pasture cash rent
- $68.5 / acre
- +5.4% 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 | $8,880 | $9,250 | $9,420 | $9,790 | $10,100 | +3.2% |
| Cropland | $8,830 | $9,410 | $9,800 | $10,300 | $10,700 | +3.9% |
| Pasture | $3,000 | $3,170 | $3,500 | $3,650 | $3,800 | +4.1% |
| Cropland cash rent | $256 | $269 | $276 | $274 | $271 | −1.1% |
| Irrigated cropland cash rent | $252 | $271 | $271 | $267 | $285 | +6.7% |
| Non-irrigated cropland cash rent | $256 | $269 | $276 | $274 | $271 | −1.1% |
| Pasture cash rent | $59.5 | $60.5 | $63.5 | $65 | $68.5 | +5.4% |
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
- Adair County $7,226 2022 census
- Allamakee County $7,375 2022 census
- Audubon County $9,544 2022 census
- Benton County $10,970 2022 census
- Black Hawk County $9,980 2022 census
- Boone County $10,746 2022 census
- Bremer County $9,905 2022 census
- Buchanan County $9,819 2022 census
- Buena Vista County $11,332 2022 census
- Butler County $8,547 2022 census
- Calhoun County $10,686 2022 census
- Carroll County $10,742 2022 census
- Cass County $8,221 2022 census
- Cedar County $10,621 2022 census
- Cerro Gordo County $9,033 2022 census
- Cherokee County $11,186 2022 census
- Chickasaw County $9,461 2022 census
- Clay County $10,321 2022 census
- Clayton County $7,648 2022 census
- Clinton County $9,600 2022 census
- Crawford County $9,476 2022 census
- Dallas County $10,688 2022 census
- Delaware County $10,164 2022 census
- Dubuque County $10,692 2022 census
- Fayette County $9,138 2022 census
- Floyd County $9,857 2022 census
- Franklin County $10,718 2022 census
- Fremont County $7,991 2022 census
- Greene County $10,751 2022 census
- Grundy County $12,121 2022 census
- Guthrie County $8,494 2022 census
- Hamilton County $11,157 2022 census
- Hancock County $9,457 2022 census
- Hardin County $10,393 2022 census
- Harrison County $8,414 2022 census
- Howard County $8,461 2022 census
- Humboldt County $10,740 2022 census
- Ida County $10,698 2022 census
- Iowa County $7,674 2022 census
- Jackson County $8,284 2022 census
- Jasper County $8,750 2022 census
- Johnson County $10,307 2022 census
- Jones County $9,299 2022 census
- Kossuth County $10,771 2022 census
- Linn County $10,758 2022 census
- Lyon County $12,857 2022 census
- Madison County $7,700 2022 census
- Mahaska County $7,959 2022 census
- Marshall County $9,375 2022 census
- Mitchell County $10,387 2022 census
- Monona County $8,044 2022 census
- O'Brien County $13,843 2022 census
- Osceola County $11,586 2022 census
- Palo Alto County $9,830 2022 census
- Plymouth County $11,556 2022 census
- Pocahontas County $11,081 2022 census
- Pottawattamie County $8,718 2022 census
- Poweshiek County $8,752 2022 census
- Sac County $11,519 2022 census
- Shelby County $9,443 2022 census
- Sioux County $13,341 2022 census
- Story County $10,914 2022 census
- Tama County $9,563 2022 census
- Warren County $7,820 2022 census
- Washington County $9,552 2022 census
- Webster County $10,795 2022 census
- Winneshiek County $8,233 2022 census
- Woodbury County $8,352 2022 census
- Wright County $10,313 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.