Explore 2026 agricultural values, historical benchmarks and current catalog coverage for New York. Each measure keeps its own definition and source.
USDA reports a 2026 farm real estate value of $4,500 per acre in New York. Cropland is $4,150 per acre and pasture is $2,040 per acre. These are agricultural survey estimates; a buildable residential lot or development site can belong to a very different market.
Farm real estate$4,5002026 nominal USD per acre. U.S. reference: $4,500.
Cropland$4,1502026 nominal USD per acre. U.S. reference: $6,020.
Pasture$2,0402026 nominal USD per acre. U.S. reference: $2,000.
Farm real estate change+87.5%2010 to 2026, nominal benchmark change. Not a parcel return; source vintages may differ.
New York land values over time.
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New York: annual agricultural values
USD per acre, nominal. Farm real estate includes buildings. A state benchmark does not appraise an individual property.
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New York: annual agricultural values · USD per acre
Date / year
Farm real estate
Cropland
Pasture
2010
$2,400
$2,400
$1,100
2011
$2,450
$2,400
$1,200
2012
$2,650
$2,600
$1,250
2013
$2,600
$2,550
$1,240
2014
$2,740
$2,570
$1,350
2015
$3,090
$2,680
$1,470
2016
$3,110
$2,690
$1,460
2017
$3,160
$2,740
$1,480
2018
$3,230
$2,800
$1,560
2019
$3,310
$2,860
$1,560
2020
$3,270
$2,910
$1,600
2021
$3,460
$3,080
$1,670
2022
$3,720
$3,400
$1,750
2023
$3,960
$3,630
$1,840
2024
$4,150
$3,850
$1,910
2025
$4,300
$4,010
$1,950
2026
$4,500
$4,150
$2,040
How New York compares with the national benchmark.
2026 USDA survey estimates. Same category and year, different geographic populations.
Measure
New York
United States
Difference from U.S.
Farm real estate
$4,500
$4,500
0.0%
Cropland
$4,150
$6,020
-31.1%
Pasture
$2,040
$2,000
2.0%
A percentage below the U.S. benchmark is not a discount to fair value. It reflects the different mix of agricultural land, improvements and local conditions included in each estimate. Compare all reported states.
Sources & definitions
Figures are nominal dollars per acre, not adjusted for inflation. USDA agricultural averages describe a different population from the parcels in our listing catalog.
Farm real estate includes agricultural land and buildings. Cropland and pasture are separate agricultural categories. Values are annual survey estimates, not an appraisal of a specific property, a vacant-lot median, or a closed-sale price index. Missing or withheld values remain missing. Each exported record preserves its report, table and page reference.
Coverage, revisions and missing values
Farm real estate includes farm buildings and dwellings. It is not a benchmark for unimproved vacant land alone.
Values are statewide or national agricultural survey estimates, not asking prices, closed-sale comparables, parcel appraisals or an automated valuation model.
All dollars are nominal. Historical changes do not remove inflation or differences in land quality, improvements, access, rights, use or location.
Alaska and Hawaii are excluded from these land-value state tables and from the national aggregate.
Earlier reports group some Northeast states as Other States. Individual values for those states are null; a group average is never assigned to each state. (D) values are also null and are explicitly labeled withheld.
Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah estimates exclude American Indian Reservation land.
Survey methods and reporting coverage changed over this history. The 2021 report describes the June Area Survey; the 2026 report describes the Agricultural Land Values Survey collected April–June. Interpret changes with the source vintage and methodology.
National and regional agricultural estimates use acreage-based weighting; the national number is not the simple mean of the displayed states.
The most recent annual estimates may be revised in later USDA publications. This is a dated source snapshot, not a live Quick Stats connection.
2010–2013 use the 2014 final-estimates bulletin; 2014–2018 use the 2019 final-estimates bulletin; 2019 uses the current Quick Stats final estimates. 2020, 2021, and 2022–2026 use the 2024, 2025, and 2026 annual reports respectively. All extracted numeric report values were cross-checked against the 2026-10-01 Quick Stats economics download. Newer selected report suppression takes precedence over an earlier numeric publication.
What this sample measures. Source-listed full cash asking prices observed in the last 30 days. Auction bids, down payments, leases, sold/closed records, owner submissions and unknown acreage are excluded. Known parcel identities are deduplicated; unresolved identities can still overlap. This is a limited source sample, not a national market census. Read the method.
Use completed sales with similar location, usable area, rights and intended use. A state agricultural average cannot replace local comparable-sale review.
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