USDA county cash rentFIPS 31179
Wayne County, Nebraska cash rent (2026)
Mean annual cash rent per acre, preserved by USDA land-use category. These figures are not a low, median, and high distribution. The annual history below spans 2019 through 2026.
Full active history: every available rate year is listed below. Suppressed and unreported cells stay unavailable, never zero.
Annual county means
Cash rent by land type and year
Missing and USDA-suppressed categories display as an em dash, never zero. Gaps in the chart are years without a published value.
- Non-irrigated cropland
- Irrigated cropland
- Pasture
| Rate year | Non-irrigated cropland | Irrigated cropland | Pasture |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $269 | $331 | $80 |
| 2025 | $264 | $335 | $91 |
| 2024 | $275 | $349 | — (not reported) |
| 2023 | $265 | $350 | $88 |
| 2022 | $240 | $301 | $89 |
| 2021 | $223 | $271 | $90 |
| 2020 | $224 | $285 | $86 |
| 2019 | $231 | — (not reported) | $81 |
State context
How this county compares
Each comparison uses the same land type and rate year across Nebraska reporting counties.
Non-irrigated cropland
- Wayne County
- $269
- Median among reporting counties (80 reporting counties)
- $141
99th percentile among 80 reporting counties.
Irrigated cropland
- Wayne County
- $331
- Median among reporting counties (78 reporting counties)
- $272
96th percentile among 78 reporting counties.
Pasture
- Wayne County
- $80
- Median among reporting counties (71 reporting counties)
- $41
100th percentile among 71 reporting counties.
Source and dates
About these rates
- Latest valid rate year
- 2026
- USDA source release
- Aug 21, 2026
- Dataset refreshed
- Oct 9, 2026
- Active dataset release
- bce02b07
USDA reports separate county means for each land-use category. A suppressed value indicates that USDA withheld the number; an absent category means it was not reported in the active release history.