Farm & food prices · Production and land

Cash rent for irrigated cropland: Norfolk County, Massachusetts

The average cash rent farmers paid per acre for irrigated cropland, from USDA's yearly cash rents survey.

Choose a place State County

Up to dateYearly. States at the end of July, counties in August. Last published Aug 21, 2026. Next expected August 2027.

The latest figures and how they have changed

Norfolk County, 2026

$451 an acre

Massachusetts, 2026

$297 an acre

Down 0.3% from $298 in 2025

United States, 2026

$244 an acre

Unchanged from $244 in 2025

Norfolk CountyMassachusettsUnited States

Chart by TallyTill · tallytill.com

View the dataSave image

What the numbers say

Norfolk County's rent is 1.5 times the Massachusetts average and 1.8 times the US average.
It is the highest of the 7 Massachusetts counties NASS published for 2026.
Gaps are years with no separate Norfolk figure: NASS ran no county survey in 2018, and in 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 it combined Norfolk into "other counties". Nothing is filled in.

Every figure behind this chart

Cash rent: irrigated cropland, dollars an acre
Year	Norfolk County	Massachusetts	United States
2026	$451	$297	$244
2025	Combined into "other counties"	$298	$244
2024	Combined into "other counties"	$295	$245
2023	Combined into "other counties"	$301	$237
2022	Combined into "other counties"	$284	$227
2021	Combined into "other counties"	$260	$217
2020	Combined into "other counties"	$210	$216
2019	Combined into "other counties"	$240	$220
2018	No county survey that year	No figure	$215
2017	Combined into "other counties"	$220	$212

Compare

Share chart Embed this chart

Embed this chart on your site

Paste this where the chart should appear

<script src="https://tools.tallytill.com/embed/v1/tallytill-tools.js" async></script>
<tallytill-chart series="cash-rent-cropland-irrigated" place="ma/norfolk-county">
  <a href="https://www.tallytill.com/data/cash-rent-cropland-irrigated/ma/norfolk-county">Farm & food prices</a> from
  <a href="https://www.tallytill.com/">TallyTill</a>
</tallytill-chart>

The chart shows the latest figures TallyTill has collected and updates itself when a new release is collected. Keep the link under it: it credits the source and the explorer.

Every Massachusetts county, 2026

Darker shading means a higher figure. Values run from $114 an acre in Berkshire County to $451 an acre in Norfolk County.

Under $122 (1 county)
$122 to under $268 (1 county)
$268 to under $345 (2 counties)
$345 to under $433 (1 county)
$433 and over (2 counties)
Not published separately (7 counties, $351 an acre combined)

NASS combined Bristol County, Dukes County, Hampden County, Nantucket County, Plymouth County, Suffolk County and Worcester County into "other counties", so they have no figure of their own.

Published Massachusetts counties, highest first, 2026
Rank	County	Figure (dollars an acre)	Precision (CV)
1	Norfolk County This county	$451	6.8%
2	Barnstable County	$433	16.1%
3	Essex County	$345	17.2%
4	Franklin County	$331	9.5%
5	Hampshire County	$268	13.1%
6	Middlesex County	$122	9.6%
7	Berkshire County	$114	9.4%

Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Cash Rents Survey. County estimates released Aug 21, 2026; state and US estimates released Jul 31, 2026. Quick Stats item "RENT, CASH, CROPLAND, IRRIGATED - EXPENSE, MEASURED IN $ / ACRE". Retrieved Oct 20, 2026; snapshot 2026-10-20.1. Precision: NASS's coefficient of variation for Norfolk is 6.8% (lower means more precise). Dollars as published, not adjusted for inflation. This product uses the NASS API but is not endorsed or certified by NASS.

What this measures

NASS asks farm operators what they pay in cash rent per acre, separately for irrigated cropland, non-irrigated cropland and pasture. State figures come out at the end of July; county figures follow in August. When too few farms in a county answer, NASS combines that county with others and publishes one "other counties" figure, so some counties have no figure of their own.