Survey Finds Cash Rent for Iowa Cropland Fell 2.9% This Year - Radio Iowa

Downward trend in Iowa cash rental rates for 2025 - The Hamburg Reporter

Press Release The 2025 survey of cash rental rates for Iowa farmland shows that rates decreased, on average, by 2.9% in 2025 to $271 per acre. This is the first decline in cash rents since 2019, after a peak of $279 per acre the previous two years of the survey. Iowa State University Extension and Outreach conducts the annual Cash Rental Rates for Iowa Survey. Crop reporting districts experienced differing results in cash rents: from a decrease …

Survey finds cash rent for Iowa cropland fell 2.9% this year - Radio Iowa

Iowa State University Extension’s annual survey shows the first statewide decline in cash rental rates for farmland since 2019. Rental rates went up 9% in 2023 and were stable last year. The drop this year is 2.9%, an decline of $8 per acre. “I think it was probably what we were kind of expecting to […]

ISU Extension survey shows cropland rental rates fell 2.9% this year

(Radio Iowa) – Iowa State University Extension’s annual survey shows the first statewide decline in cash rental rates for farmland since 2019. Rental rates went up nine percent in 2023 and were stable last year. Ann Johanns, a program specialist with I-S-U Extension, says the average drop this year is eight dollars per acre. “I think it was probably what we were kind of expecting to see for 2025’s rents,” she says. The survey does not seek infor…