Northern Plains
Nebraska farmland value and cash rent on the Land Market Index
Nebraska splits between irrigated and dryland cropland and the Sandhills pasture region. The all-cropland value is not an irrigated-pivot price.
Nebraska farm real estate averaged $4,400 per acre in 2026, in line with the U.S. figure of $4,500.
2026 averages
- Farm real estate
- $4,400 / acre
- +3.5% from 2025
- Cropland
- $6,960 / acre
- +2.4% from 2025
- Pasture
- $1,590 / acre
- +5.3% from 2025
- Cropland cash rent
- $227 / acre
- +0.4% from 2025
- Pasture cash rent
- $29.5 / acre
- +3.5% 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 | $3,450 | $3,820 | $4,080 | $4,250 | $4,400 | +3.5% |
| Cropland | $5,520 | $6,150 | $6,540 | $6,800 | $6,960 | +2.4% |
| Pasture | $1,140 | $1,300 | $1,400 | $1,510 | $1,590 | +5.3% |
| Cropland cash rent | $211 | $220 | $223 | $226 | $227 | +0.4% |
| Irrigated cropland cash rent | $260 | $277 | $281 | $286 | $283 | −1.0% |
| Non-irrigated cropland cash rent | $162 | $164 | $169 | $166 | $168 | +1.2% |
| Pasture cash rent | $26 | $27 | $28.5 | $28.5 | $29.5 | +3.5% |
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
- Adams County $6,544 2022 census
- Antelope County $5,999 2022 census
- Boone County $6,452 2022 census
- Buffalo County $4,857 2022 census
- Butler County $6,462 2022 census
- Cass County $6,946 2022 census
- Cedar County $6,435 2022 census
- Cherry County $1,224 2022 census
- Clay County $6,744 2022 census
- Cuming County $7,508 2022 census
- Custer County $2,892 2022 census
- Dawson County $4,897 2022 census
- Dodge County $7,512 2022 census
- Fillmore County $7,359 2022 census
- Gage County $5,474 2022 census
- Hamilton County $8,963 2022 census
- Holt County $2,650 2022 census
- Kearney County $7,608 2022 census
- Knox County $5,161 2022 census
- Lancaster County $6,481 2022 census
- Lincoln County $2,340 2022 census
- Madison County $7,527 2022 census
- Platte County $7,054 2022 census
- Saunders County $7,483 2022 census
- Seward County $7,516 2022 census
- Sheridan County $1,394 2022 census
- York County $7,906 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.