Southern Plains
Texas farmland value and cash rent on the Land Market Index
Texas covers an enormous range of farm and ranch country, from Panhandle crops and cattle to Gulf Coast cropland and brush country. A single average cannot describe a specific region.
Texas farm real estate averaged $3,100 per acre in 2026, below the U.S. figure of $4,500.
2026 averages
- Farm real estate
- $3,100 / acre
- +4.4% from 2025
- Cropland
- $2,790 / acre
- +3.0% from 2025
- Pasture
- $2,420 / acre
- +5.2% from 2025
- Cropland cash rent
- $50 / acre
- +2.0% from 2025
- Pasture cash rent
- $8.6 / acre
- +11.7% 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 | $2,440 | $2,610 | $2,800 | $2,970 | $3,100 | +4.4% |
| Cropland | $2,360 | $2,490 | $2,570 | $2,710 | $2,790 | +3.0% |
| Pasture | $1,940 | $2,070 | $2,200 | $2,300 | $2,420 | +5.2% |
| Cropland cash rent | $43.5 | $44 | $46 | $49 | $50 | +2.0% |
| Irrigated cropland cash rent | $112 | $113 | $117 | $114 | $125 | +9.6% |
| Non-irrigated cropland cash rent | $31 | $31 | $31.5 | $36.5 | $35.5 | −2.7% |
| Pasture cash rent | $7.7 | $8.5 | $8.2 | $7.7 | $8.6 | +11.7% |
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
- Bell County $4,587 2022 census
- Brazoria County $5,440 2022 census
- Brewster County $1,376 2022 census
- Collin County $13,066 2022 census
- Comanche County $3,754 2022 census
- Cooke County $4,391 2022 census
- Culberson County $1,192 2022 census
- Denton County $12,287 2022 census
- Erath County $4,099 2022 census
- Fayette County $5,481 2022 census
- Gillespie County $3,993 2022 census
- Gonzales County $4,484 2022 census
- Grayson County $7,774 2022 census
- Hidalgo County $4,088 2022 census
- Hudspeth County $1,068 2022 census
- Lavaca County $4,783 2022 census
- McLennan County $5,592 2022 census
- Medina County $3,805 2022 census
- Milam County $4,490 2022 census
- Parker County $6,899 2022 census
- Pecos County $1,178 2022 census
- Presidio County $1,070 2022 census
- San Saba County $3,033 2022 census
- Tom Green County $2,271 2022 census
- Uvalde County $2,157 2022 census
- Webb County $1,750 2022 census
- Wharton County $4,064 2022 census
- Wise County $6,259 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.