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Updated September, 2008					File C2-09

Iowa Farmland Rental Rates 1994-2008 (USDA)

William Edwards, extension economist, 515-294-6161, wedwards@iastate.edu

 

Cropland rental rates averaged $165 per acre in 2008, up $25.00 per acre from 2007. This was the largest one-year increase in many years. Cash rent for pastures averaged $42.00 per acre in 2008, an increase of $3.00 from the previous year. Rent as a percentage of land value was the same as in 2007.

For more localized information about cash rental rates, ask for publication FM-1851 at the ISU Extension office in your county, or see www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/FM1851.pdf, or see Information File Farmland Cash Rental Rate Survey (Iowa State University).