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Sumter County, Georgia

Pasture here rented for $33 an acre in 2016. That's the 77th percentile among the 66 Georgia counties reporting that year, and the 78th 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 2016, this county's most recent published year.

The record, computed from 3 archived USDA survey years, 2013–2016
too few years on record to draw a fair trend; the table below has what exists
as of 2026-10-012016 surveymethodcompare your own rate

Across Georgia's counties, the middle half of county averages in 2026 runs $27 to $44.38 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 2013, this county's rate has fallen 10 percent: $36.50 then, $33 in 2016.

The counties next door

The comparison made at the kitchen table is with the neighbors. Every bordering county NASS tracks is listed at its most recent published rate.

County$/acre
Macon$53
Terrell$49 (2019)
Lee$44.50 (2020)
Crisp$32 (2009)
Marion$25.50 (2021)

Every year on record

Year$/acre
2013$36.50
2014$36
2016$33

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Planned: the Sumter 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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