Mountain
Utah farmland value and cash rent on the Land Market Index
Utah's agricultural land is largely irrigated valleys and desert or mountain pasture. The cropland average describes a much smaller acreage than the pasture average.
Utah farm real estate averaged $3,650 per acre in 2026, below the U.S. figure of $4,500.
Excludes American Indian Reservation land.
2026 averages
- Farm real estate
- $3,650 / acre
- +4.3% from 2025
- Cropland
- $6,040 / acre
- +4.3% from 2025
- Pasture
- $2,000 / acre
- +5.3% from 2025
- Cropland cash rent
- $87 / acre
- −6.5% from 2025
- Pasture cash rent
- $8.2 / acre
- +49.1% 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 | $2,890 | $3,040 | $3,300 | $3,500 | $3,650 | +4.3% |
| Cropland | $4,680 | $4,870 | $5,280 | $5,790 | $6,040 | +4.3% |
| Pasture | $1,585 | $1,695 | $1,800 | $1,900 | $2,000 | +5.3% |
| Cropland cash rent | $90.5 | $86.5 | $90.5 | $93 | $87 | −6.5% |
| Irrigated cropland cash rent | $121 | $114 | $117 | $120 | $120 | 0.0% |
| Non-irrigated cropland cash rent | $28.5 | $33 | $31.5 | $34.5 | $32 | −7.2% |
| Pasture cash rent | $4.1 | $4.1 | $5.3 | $5.5 | $8.2 | +49.1% |
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
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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.