New Mexico cash rent table, 2026
$ per acre · tap a column to sort · — = not published
| Bernalillo County | Northwest | — | — | — | — |
| Catron County | Southwest | — | — | — | — |
| Chaves County | Southeast | — | $175 | $2.80 | — |
| Cibola County | Northwest | — | — | $1.50 | — |
| Colfax County | Northeast | — | — | — | — |
| Curry County | Northeast | $27.50 | $81 | $8.80 | +17.0% |
| De Baca County | Northeast | — | $194 | $3.70 | — |
| Doña Ana County | Southeast | — | $296 | — | — |
| Eddy County | Southeast | — | $110 | — | — |
| Grant County | Southwest | — | — | — | — |
| Guadalupe County | Northeast | — | — | $3.50 | — |
| Harding County | Northeast | — | — | $4.30 | — |
| Lea County | Southeast | — | — | $1.80 | — |
| Lincoln County | Southeast | — | — | $2.80 | — |
| Luna County | Southwest | — | $248 | — | — |
| McKinley County | Northwest | — | — | — | — |
| Mora County | Northeast | — | — | — | — |
| Quay County | Northeast | $11 | $62 | $4.90 | −18.5% |
| Rio Arriba County | Northwest | — | — | $2.10 | — |
| Roosevelt County | Northeast | $19 | $122 | $4.90 | −25.5% |
| San Juan County | Northwest | — | $177 | — | — |
| San Miguel County | Northeast | — | — | $3.20 | — |
| Sandoval County | Northwest | — | — | $1.80 | — |
| Santa Fe County | Northwest | — | — | $1.60 | — |
| Sierra County | Southwest | — | — | — | — |
| Taos County | Northwest | — | — | — | — |
| Torrance County | Northeast | — | — | $2.20 | — |
| Union County | Northeast | — | — | $6.20 | — |
| Valencia County | Northwest | — | $156 | — | — |
Counties NASS published only in 2025 show a dash for 2026; their pages carry the 2025 figure.
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Where these numbers come from
- Every rent on these pages is a published estimate from the USDA NASS Cash Rents Survey: the average cash rent paid per acre for non-irrigated cropland, irrigated cropland and pasture. We pull the 2024–2026 county and state series straight from Quick Stats.
- NASS skips counties with too few survey reports, or withholds them to protect respondents, and lumps them into an "other counties" total. Those counties get no page here, and missing years show as a dash. We do not estimate, average or interpolate around the gaps.
- The coefficient of variation (CV) is NASS's measure of sampling precision. Lower is tighter; the higher the CV, the wider the real range around the county figure.
- "Bordering counties" are the ones that share a boundary under the Census Bureau county adjacency file, including across state lines.
- An average rent is a benchmark, not a fair price for a specific field. Soil, drainage, fertility, improvements and lease terms all move the number.
Data last refreshed October 8, 2026.