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USDA surveys cash rents every year, county by county. Across the Corn Belt, non-irrigated cropland commonly rents in the low-to-mid hundreds of dollars per acre per year, with wide variation by county and soil — which is exactly why a county average alone can mislead. This tool starts from your county’s published USDA rate, then adjusts for your parcel’s measured soil productivity and its actual tillable acres.
Enter what your tenant pays and the sheet stamps the review FAIR, BELOW MARKET, or ABOVE MARKET against the market range for your specific parcel, with the difference in dollars per year. It is a planning-grade comparison from public data — the point is to tell you whether a professional review is worth having, not to set the rent for you.
Rent is paid on the ground a tenant can actually farm — not on creeks, grassed waterways, tree lines, ponds, or the farmstead. We overlay your parcel on USDA land-cover data and show the deduction line by line: gross acres in, tillable acres out. Getting this number wrong (in either direction) is the most common error in handshake leases.
Acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program carry the CRP contract rate, not the market cash rent — they should be excluded from a rent comparison. Per-parcel CRP enrollment is not public data, so the sheet cannot detect it; if part of your parcel is in CRP, subtract those acres before reading the total.
Yes — free, no signup, no phone number required, and nobody contacts you. The review stays on your screen unless you choose to share it or send it to us.
The inputs are the best public data available — USDA county rent surveys, SSURGO soils, 30-meter land-cover imagery — but they are surveys and imagery, not an appraisal. Land cover at 30 m resolution means tillable acres can be off by a few acres on a quarter section, and local factors we cannot see (tile condition, access, local competition for ground) move real rents. The sheet shows every number’s source and vintage so you can judge it.