CRP payments by county
How many acres are under Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) contract in each county, the average rent on them, and FSA’s 2026 county rates for cropland and Grassland CRP. Pick a state, then a county, and estimate a payment from your acres. Your FSA county office has your own contract’s rate and payment.
New CRP offers and re-enrollments are paused: FSA’s authority to approve them ran through September 30, 2026 (FSA Notice CRP-1101). Existing contracts continue to receive annual rent. See the CRP guide for program status.
CRP across the country
At the end of fiscal 2025 (September 30, 2025), FSA’s county file shows 25,766,115 acres under CRP contract in 2,349 counties plus Alaska (reported statewide), with $1,855,563,344 in rent on those contracts for the year, an average of $72.02 an acre. 9,760,015 of the acres were Grassland CRP.
| State | Acres under contract | Average rent per acre |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 89,913in 60 counties | $44.14$4.0 million total |
| Alaska | 12,478statewide | $42.04$524,655 total |
| Arizona | 99,436in 4 counties | $12.32$1.2 million total |
| Arkansas | 185,372in 54 counties | $89.96$16.7 million total |
| California | 81,976in 18 counties | $20.37$1.7 million total |
| Colorado | 2,958,382in 41 counties | $23.77$70.3 million total |
| Connecticut | 0in 0 counties | —no CRP rent |
| Delaware | 2,816in 3 counties | $161.30$454,198 total |
| Florida | 6,220in 16 counties | $59.14$367,816 total |
| Georgia | 139,819in 116 counties | $72.37$10.1 million total |
| Hawaii | 6,263in 3 counties | $17.05$106,812 total |
| Idaho | 356,528in 36 counties | $46.88$16.7 million total |
| Illinois | 788,227in 100 counties | $221.50$174.6 million total |
| Indiana | 180,269in 91 counties | $218.07$39.3 million total |
| Iowa | 1,668,950in 99 counties | $241.95$403.8 million total |
| Kansas | 2,031,432in 105 counties | $38.69$78.6 million total |
| Kentucky | 134,616in 81 counties | $168.57$22.7 million total |
| Louisiana | 248,055in 32 counties | $108.26$26.9 million total |
| Maine | 2,084in 4 counties | $55.81$116,297 total |
| Maryland | 39,396in 22 counties | $258.46$10.2 million total |
| Massachusetts | 9in 1 county | $101.00$865 total |
| Michigan | 107,273in 66 counties | $129.66$13.9 million total |
| Minnesota | 962,793in 83 counties | $165.50$159.3 million total |
| Mississippi | 446,244in 77 counties | $92.12$41.1 million total |
| Missouri | 666,345in 104 counties | $149.50$99.6 million total |
| Montana | 927,687in 44 counties | $22.78$21.1 million total |
| Nebraska | 2,403,229in 93 counties | $39.85$95.8 million total |
| Nevada | 2,968in 2 counties | $10.12$30,047 total |
| New Hampshire | 0in 0 counties | —no CRP rent |
| New Jersey | 2,133in 12 counties | $77.52$165,305 total |
| New Mexico | 1,198,459in 16 counties | $17.96$21.5 million total |
| New York | 14,016in 44 counties | $75.97$1.1 million total |
| North Carolina | 18,021in 74 counties | $84.14$1.5 million total |
| North Dakota | 1,190,242in 53 counties | $61.89$73.7 million total |
| Ohio | 227,075in 84 counties | $232.73$52.8 million total |
| Oklahoma | 715,479in 55 counties | $20.99$15.0 million total |
| Oregon | 953,402in 32 counties | $35.13$33.5 million total |
| Pennsylvania | 75,000in 62 counties | $164.00$12.3 million total |
| Puerto Rico | 0statewide | —no CRP rent |
| Rhode Island | 0in 0 counties | —no CRP rent |
| South Carolina | 22,110in 35 counties | $47.05$1.0 million total |
| South Dakota | 2,623,936in 66 counties | $55.34$145.2 million total |
| Tennessee | 90,470in 64 counties | $108.19$9.8 million total |
| Texas | 2,191,602in 135 counties | $33.44$73.3 million total |
| Utah | 162,053in 8 counties | $21.46$3.5 million total |
| Vermont | 1,705in 14 counties | $123.54$210,679 total |
| Virginia | 28,200in 89 counties | $62.32$1.8 million total |
| Washington | 914,268in 34 counties | $62.00$56.7 million total |
| West Virginia | 15,768in 38 counties | $32.76$516,509 total |
| Wisconsin | 188,354in 60 counties | $179.70$33.8 million total |
| Wyoming | 585,045in 19 counties | $15.24$8.9 million total |
Worked example: Story County, Iowa
- FSA’s fiscal 2025 figures: $2,458,710.60 in rent on 8,914.23 acres, so $2,458,710.60 ÷ 8,914.23 = $275.82 an acre.
- 80 acres at that county average: 80 × $275.82 = $22,065.60 a year.
- The same 80 acres at FSA’s 2026 county average cropland rate of $278.00: 80 × $278.00 = $22,240.00 a year.
- At the FY2026 Grassland CRP rate of $47.00: 80 × $47.00 = $3,760.00 a year.
Here the kind of CRP moves the estimate more than anything else. A real offer’s rate comes from the soils on the field and FSA’s schedule for that county, and can be lower than any of these figures.
Reading these numbers
- Acres are land under CRP contract on September 30, 2025, the end of FSA’s fiscal year. Rent is FSA’s figure from contract data, not actual payments, for land under contract in fiscal 2025; FSA paid it in fiscal 2026, which began October 1, 2025. The law directs USDA to make annual rental payments as soon as practicable after October 1 (16 U.S.C. 3834(a)).
- The October 2026 payments (USDA announced about $1.8 billion on October 8, 2026) are for fiscal 2026 and are not in FSA’s county file yet.
- The county average mixes general, continuous and Grassland CRP contracts signed in different years. One farm’s rate can sit far above or below it.
- FSA bases each contract’s rent on a weighted average soil rental rate for the soils offered, the marginal pastureland rate, or the grassland rate, and publishes a schedule of maximum rates for each county. Grassland rates are based on no more than 75% of the land’s estimated grazing value (7 CFR 1410.42).
- The 2026 county average cropland rate is FSA’s average across the county’s soils, including alternative rates FSA approved, before any adjustments. FSA lists Connecticut’s cropland rates by planning region rather than county, so they are not shown here. Where FSA’s grassland file gives one county two different rates, neither is shown.
- CRP annual rental payments to one person or legal entity are limited to $50,000 a fiscal year.
- FSA reports Alaska and Puerto Rico statewide only. FSA does not publish contract counts by county.
Sources
Source: FSA, CRP Enrollment and Rental Payments by County, 1986-2025 (posted May 2026); CRP Practices By County Sept 2025; CRP 2026 County Average SRR's (February 2026); FY2026 Grassland Rates (May 2026) from FSA’s CRP statistics page, retrieved October 31, 2026.
FSA’s data is a work of the U.S. Government and is not under copyright (17 U.S.C. 105). The figures here are FSA’s, rounded to whole acres and dollars or to the cent (state totals to $0.1 million); fn adds the state sums and the estimate. The same data as JSON: index.json (sources, years, national and state totals) and one file per state, such as iowa.json.
These are FSA’s published county figures and a simple estimate, shown for reference. They are not an offer, a contract rate or a payment for any farm. FSA determines eligibility and payments. Farmer's Navigator is not affiliated with USDA.