Arkansas → Clay

Clay County, Arkansas

Pasture here rented for $21 an acre in 2017. That's the 88th percentile among the 53 Arkansas counties reporting that year, and the 55th percentile nationally.

NASS has no 2026 pasture cash rent result for this county (suppressed or left out of the survey that year). The rate shown is from 2017, this county's most recent published year.

The record, computed from 6 archived USDA survey years, 2011–2017
as of 2026-10-012017 surveymethodcompare your own rate

Across Arkansas's counties, the middle half of county averages in 2026 runs $18.25 to $27.50 an acre. Individual leases spread wider than county averages do, because grass, water, fencing and term length all move the price. An offer far outside this band should come with a reason the other side can say out loud.

Since 2011, this county's rate has fallen 7 percent: $22.50 then, $21 in 2017.

The counties next door

The comparison made at the kitchen table is with the neighbors. This year, rates across the county line go from $20 to $29.50 an acre. Every bordering county NASS tracks is listed at its most recent published rate.

County$/acre
Randolph$29.50
Ripley, Missouri$25.50
Greene$20
Butler, Missouri$14 (2025)

Every year on record

Year$/acre
2011$22.50
2012$30
2013$18.50
2014$18.50
2016$20.50
2017$21

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Planned: the Clay County negotiation packet. A one-page brief to hand across the table, lease terms as ranchers contribute them (water, fencing, maintenance, term length) and the stocking-rate bridge between dollars per acre and per-head rates. The rates, the history and the neighbors table above stay free. What's free today.

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