
Downward trend in Iowa cash rental rates for 2025
Thursday, May 15, 2025 • 2 PM
Photo courtesy of Iowa State University Extension and Outreach
The 2025 survey of cash rental rates for Iowa farmland shows that rates decreased, on average, by 2.9% in 2025 to $271 per acre. This is the first decline in cash rents since 2019, after a peak of $279 per acre the previous two years of the survey. Iowa State University Extension and Outreach conducts the annual Cash Rental Rates for Iowa Survey.