Farmland Cash Rental Rate Lease Calculator

A cropland cash rental rate is the per-acre cash rent paid to farmland owners for the use of cropland for one growing season. It is negotiated between the landlord and tenant and is influenced by soil productivity, expected crop yields, grain prices, production costs, and local market conditions

This calculator estimates rent multiple ways: Share of Gross Revenue, Return on Investment, Shared Risk-Return, and Tenant's Residual. These methods are then summarized as a weighted-average range across the farm's crop acreage

The Corn Suitability Rating 2 (CSR2) is a soil productivity index from 5 to 100 maintained by Iowa State University. It is multiplied by a per-index-point rental rate to estimate a baseline cash rent. This cropland rent estimator applies the CSR2 method only for Iowa farms, using county average CSR2 values computed from NRCS Web Soil Survey data.

Enter your farm name, your name and email, choose whether you are growing one or two crops, name the crops, and provide crop acres, expected yields, grain prices, current rent, and per-acre production costs. Iowa farms can also select their county to apply the CSR2 method.

The estimator is an educational and negotiation tool. It uses the inputs you provide and does not pull live market data. Always verify figures with current USDA NASS data and your own farm records before signing a lease.

Oaken is a digital farmland lease management platform and agribusiness CRM designed for farm managers, agricultural investors, and landowners. It replaces manual spreadsheets by automating agricultural lease agreements, calculating market-aligned rental rates, tracking flexible and crop-share payments, and organizing landowner communications in one centralized system.