Find your rate
Two different lease structures, two different lookups — pick the one that's actually your negotiation.
Leasing out land (pasture cash rent, $/acre)
Nearly nationwide, county-level. Type your county or state.
Paying to graze cattle (grazing fee, monthly)
The 17 states where NASS surveys this rate structure — state-level, not county (see why). Not every state publishes all three rate structures every year; each shows what it actually published for 2025.
- Arizona no 2025 figure published — last published rates on the state page
- California $26/AUM · $26/head/mo
- Colorado $23.50/AUM · $28/pair/mo · $25/head/mo
- Idaho $20.50/AUM · $23/pair/mo · $22/head/mo
- Kansas $27/AUM · $33/pair/mo · $30/head/mo
- Montana $29.50/AUM · $32.50/pair/mo · $29/head/mo
- Nebraska $47.50/AUM · $56/pair/mo · $46.50/head/mo
- Nevada no 2025 figure published — last published rates on the state page
- New Mexico $19/head/mo
- North Dakota $25/AUM
- Oklahoma $11/AUM · $14/head/mo
- Oregon $20/AUM
- South Dakota $36.50/AUM · $44/pair/mo · $42/head/mo
- Texas $17/head/mo
- Utah $21/AUM · $22/head/mo
- Washington $17/AUM · $19/head/mo
- Wyoming $27/AUM · $27.50/pair/mo · $26.50/head/mo
County not listed, or no current figure? NASS doesn't survey every county every year — see methodology for how we handle that, and compare your own rate against any county's benchmark — including the county next door, which every county page now lists.