Skagit County, Washington rents pasture at $70 an acre. Right across the county line, Okanogan County gets $3.

Both numbers come from USDA's Cash Rents Survey — roughly 280,000 farm operations answer it every year, and it publishes down to the county. The measurement of your local lease market exists, and it is public. Almost nobody sitting down to negotiate a pasture lease has seen it. Most walk in carrying a neighbor's number, or an extension PDF three revisions old, and sign for the year.

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Two leases, two numbers

Leasing out land is a cash rent question: dollars per acre, tracked county by county, nearly nationwide. Running your cattle on someone else's ground is a grazing fee question: dollars per animal-unit-month, per pair, or per head, tracked in the 17 states that hold most of the country's rangeland. They are different transactions, and this site never blends them.

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The market moved. Did your lease?

Between 2020 and 2025, the national median county pasture rate moved +18 percent in dollars — $19.50 to $23 an acre. Inflation ran about +25 percent over the same stretch (BLS CPI-U), so even the median lease lost ground in real terms — and a lease held flat since 2020 took roughly a 20 percent pay cut in real dollars, without anyone signing anything. USDA re-measures every year. Look up your county before you shake on last year's number.

As of 2026-10-01, the median county-level pasture cash rent in the United States is $23 an acre (2025 survey). Within Texas alone, county rates run $0.40 to $21. — PastureRents. Compare your own rate · reuse free with attribution.

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USDA publishes on a fixed calendar: county cash rents in late August, grazing fees at the end of January. The digest is one email at each release — your county's new rate and how it moved. Nothing else, ever.

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