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What are ya’ll seeing for leases prices on farmland rented per acre for row crops in Northeast Alabama?

Somewhere around $100/ac is what I’d expect around here.

Isn't that high

It depends.
Some pay 20% while others pay much more than a 100 an acre but it depends on how good the ground is
Also projections for farming are not great right now either

Both of these, the second more so than the first…at all. Many farms (generational, not just newer ones), large and small, are in hard debates on whether to keep on or not. I’ve heard more than a few older farmers (l60-70’s, not young’uns) say it is my best yield ever and made no money, barely broke even over all crops. That can’t go on for too much longer.

Wow

Well, up until I bought this property solely, We’ve been on a percentage share. It turned out this year the crop did “horrible”. Or at least enough of it did that we didn’t get paid (50 percent of the property did well, the other 50 did horrible) My assumption is some kind of insurance claim was made on the loss, of which-if so, we received nothing of.

To avoid this again, I’ll probably look at a high per acre cost, or write something into the ongoing agreement

For what it’s worth, I was told by some one earlier that they expect 100/acre.

$50 acre here on Sandmoutain for rowcrop.

Pasture land around here is 60-80 an acre. Most that I know of at 60 was including a good bit of fencing materials and labor for a 3 to 5 year agreement. I think row crop land is all around 100 but not certain.

That’s about the going rate around here. Other places bring more, my lady friend for example, gets $210 in Franklin Co, Tn.

Good ground will pay much better than poor ground. One thing I have learned, without timely rain corn don’t do well and wet fields only mean so much. Gotta have good timing on certain stages of corn growing. Last year my duck hole was planted a month later, no fertilizer and did not spray and it made twice the corn that the field next to it did with all the fixings. The rain hit at the correct time.

It’s not worth planting some ground when it’s free

And crop insurance is BS for the most part. I keep hearing farming for the insurance crap and that’s nowhere near the truth. It’s not like homeowners or auto insurance.

The way things are looking it’s gonna be huge corporate farming in the upcoming years. Small guys ain’t gonna be around. And when I say small it’s still 3/5000 acres.
Last two years hurt a lot of pocket books. Know of several that thru in the towel and lots of talking going on.

Ground in the valley is $ 90 -$100 minimum standing rent. Goes up from there. I'd suspect it's less on Sand Mt. My little field and my Father's farms are done on shares and over all do better than standing rent. Last year everybody took a hit , prices were low and so was yield, but I got paid more than I expected.

FSA office in your county would be a good place to visit. You might decide to farm it yourself.

Did you pay a percentage of the input costs? Dry land or irrigated land? Crop insurance sounds way better than it actually is. Most insurance doesn’t cover the input costs of its still based off past yield history. It’s a gamble as a landowner on percentages. Some years the percentage may way higher, depending on crop, then an acre by acre rental. I would guess now sharecroppers are a thing of the past. The last year I farmed rice, I paid $75/ac + 20% for the water. Landlord owned maintained and supplied fuel for all the pumps. The $75 was a great price but the 20% is what hurt. We had to pay on dried cwts and cover their share of the drying. That took the wind out of my sails. But that’s farming today. Landowner holds the power if it’s good farmland.

I'm on sand mountain, had 10 acres that I leased out for several years. Guy was paying $60/acre. That was 2 years ago if it helps

If your land is mountain land 50-60 per acre for standing rent. Valley land would be worth more. Farming is not very good right now. Commodity prices are not good enough to cover all the increases in seed, chemicals, fertilizer, labor, parts, fuel, and equipment that we have experienced in the last four years. Everything we buy is now more expensive than it was before Covid.

On a side note I’ve gave up several farms in the last couple of years because of deer issues. Deer can wipe out a field of soybeans and nothing to even combine.

We piddle at small time farming and the cost in the past 4 years have more than doubled on repairs alone. I’d hate to have as money on the line every year as a real farmer. Folks don’t have a clue.


Deer will hurt your feelings. Lost about 25 acres the past 2 years from them and shot the heck out of them. They’re Ben eating the tops out of corn plants.

My check for this past year was way down. Probably the worst one in 25 years. No way I would go to cost per acre sometimes on a good cotton year it averages more than 200 per acre. Hopefully last year want be repeated I planted a many of fields for duck hunters and they were pitiful too

I saw a T shirt the other day and it had a very true statement on it. It said “ SCREW THE FARMERS EVERYONE ELSE DOES”. Unless you’ve been in the business, you have no idea the amount of money it takes to run a farming operation these days. Everyone thinks farmers are making a ton of money. Some years when everything is perfect, a little money can be made. However it takes most of that profit to cover the bad years. Farmers handle a lot of money but they don’t make a lot of money. Also You BETTER NOT make the mistake and have to sell 2 crops in the same year. Uncle Sam will clean your clock. I get sick to my stomach thinking about what it costs now to just crank a tractor in the morning to work ground. Fuel and maintenance costs are outrageous now. And you better maintain them to the best of your abilities because it costs a fortune to replace a piece of equipment now. I’m so glad I made the decision to retire when I did. Because if y’all think row crops are bad, y’all sure don’t want nothing to do with rice farming.