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New Mexico
Across the 16 New Mexico counties NASS published directly for 2026, the median pasture rent was $3 an acre. The spread ran $1.50 in Cibola County to $8.80 in Curry — which is the point: a state average tells you almost nothing about your own fence line. Find your county below; an entry marked with an older year is that county's most recent published figure, not a 2026 number.
Every county
| County | 2026 rate | Percentile in state |
|---|---|---|
| Bernalillo (most recent published: 2025) | $1 | 2nd percentile |
| Catron (most recent published: 2025) | $1.20 | 11th percentile |
| Chaves | $2.80 | 44th percentile |
| Cibola | $1.50 | 3rd percentile |
| Colfax (most recent published: 2025) | $5.40 | 80th percentile |
| Curry | $8.80 | 97th percentile |
| De Baca | $3.70 | 66th percentile |
| Dona Ana (most recent published: 2023) | $3.70 | 70th percentile |
| Eddy (most recent published: 2025) | $1.50 | 17th percentile |
| Grant (most recent published: 2025) | $2.80 | 59th percentile |
| Guadalupe | $3.50 | 59th percentile |
| Harding | $4.30 | 72nd percentile |
| Lea | $1.80 | 19th percentile |
| Lincoln | $2.80 | 44th percentile |
| Luna (most recent published: 2024) | $3.90 | 72nd percentile |
| McKinley (most recent published: 2025) | $1.50 | 17th percentile |
| Mora (most recent published: 2025) | $5.30 | 76th percentile |
| Otero (most recent published: 2022) | $2 | 40th percentile |
| Quay | $4.90 | 81st percentile |
| Rio Arriba | $2.10 | 28th percentile |
| Roosevelt | $4.90 | 81st percentile |
| San Juan (most recent published: 2025) | $4 | 72nd percentile |
| San Miguel | $3.20 | 53rd percentile |
| Sandoval | $1.80 | 19th percentile |
| Santa Fe | $1.60 | 9th percentile |
| Sierra (most recent published: 2024) | $2.80 | 52nd percentile |
| Socorro (most recent published: 2024) | $2.20 | 40th percentile |
| Taos (most recent published: 2022) | $4.30 | 74th percentile |
| Torrance | $2.20 | 34th percentile |
| Union | $6.20 | 91st percentile |
| Valencia (most recent published: 2025) | $2.50 | 50th percentile |
Grazing fee, 2025
New Mexico is one of the 17 states NASS surveys for private grazing-land lease rates (paying to graze cattle on someone else's rangeland, distinct from leasing the land itself).
- per head: $19/month (23rd percentile among the states publishing this rate)
Every year on record, 1979–2025
The record runs deep: $6.88 per AUM in 1979, $17.50 in 2024 — 46 published years.
| Year | $/AUM | $/pair/mo | $/head/mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | $19 |
| 2024 | $17.50 | — | $18 |
| 2023 | $16.50 | — | $17 |
| 2022 | $16.50 | — | $17 |
| 2021 | $16.50 | — | $17 |
| 2020 | $16.50 | $18.50 | $16.50 |
| 2019 | $16 | — | $16.50 |
| 2018 | $16 | — | $16.50 |
| 2017 | $15.50 | — | $16 |
| 2016 | $14 | — | $14.50 |
| 2015 | $15.50 | — | $15.50 |
| 2014 | $13.50 | — | $15.50 |
| 2013 | $13 | — | $14 |
| 2012 | $12.50 | — | $14 |
| 2011 | $13 | — | $13 |
| 2010 | $11.50 | $13.50 | $12.50 |
| 2009 | $10 | $13 | $12 |
| 2008 | $11 | $11.50 | $12 |
| 2007 | $11 | $13 | $12 |
| 2006 | $10 | $12 | $11.50 |
| 2005 | $9.50 | $11.50 | $10.80 |
| 2004 | $9.70 | $11.90 | $11 |
| 2003 | $8.60 | $12.40 | $10 |
| 2002 | $8.80 | $10.70 | $9.90 |
| 2001 | $10.20 | $12.50 | $10.50 |
| 2000 | $9 | $11.50 | $9.40 |
| 1999 | $8.80 | $10.10 | $10 |
| 1998 | $8.80 | $9.75 | $9.70 |
| 1997 | $8.79 | $10.30 | $9 |
| 1996 | $8.87 | $11.30 | $9.37 |
| 1995 | $8.74 | $10.40 | $9.94 |
| 1994 | $8.08 | $10.40 | $8.50 |
| 1993 | $7.55 | $9.26 | $7.57 |
| 1992 | $6.95 | — | $7.77 |
| 1991 | $3.02 | — | $6.65 |
| 1990 | $6.66 | $9.17 | $7.66 |
| 1989 | $7.51 | $10.25 | $7.06 |
| 1988 | $5.46 | — | $7.80 |
| 1987 | $5.82 | $7.99 | $5.90 |
| 1986 | $5.98 | — | $8.45 |
| 1985 | $5.77 | $7.50 | — |
| 1984 | $6.80 | — | $7.13 |
| 1983 | $6.63 | $10.08 | $5.99 |
| 1982 | $6.26 | $8.12 | — |
| 1981 | $6.98 | $8.62 | $10 |
| 1980 | $4.50 | $5.15 | $7.52 |
| 1979 | $6.88 | $6.72 | $7.80 |
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