Clackamas County, Oregon rents pasture at $65 an acre. Across the county line, Wasco County gets $6.90.
Both rates come from USDA's Cash Rents Survey, which publishes down to the county every year. The measurement of your local lease market exists, and it is public. Few people who sit down to negotiate a pasture lease have seen it. They walk in with a neighbor's price or an old extension sheet, and they sign for the year.
Two leases, two numbers
Leasing out land is a cash rent question: dollars per acre, tracked county by county in 45 states. Grazing 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 with 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 2021 and 2026, the national median county pasture rate moved +22 percent, from $20 to $24.50 an acre. USDA measures again every year. Look up your county before you shake on last year's price.
As of 2026-10-02, the median county-level pasture cash rent in the United States is $24.50 an acre (2026 survey). Within Washington alone, county rates run $1.90 to $82.50. 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, with your county's new rate and how it moved.
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