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One of the most common questions I am asked is how much a person should charge (if a landowner) or pay (if a tenant) for an agricultural lease.\u00a0 To help folks answer this question, I have put together a fact sheet listing several free resources available to Texas landowners that may help in this process.\u00a0 From who to talk to at the coffee shop, to the United States Department of Agriculture surveys, to a Texas Land Value Trend report, to Agricultural Economics Department budgets, this fact sheet will help landowners and tenants find information related to average lease rates across the state.<\/p>\n

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One of the most common questions I am asked is how much a person should charge (if a landowner) or pay (if a tenant) for an agricultural lease.\u00a0 To help folks answer this question, I have put together a fact sheet listing several free resources available to Texas landowners that may help in this process.\u00a0 From who to talk to at the coffee shop, to the United States Department of Agriculture surveys, to a Texas Land Value Trend report, to Agricultural Economics Department budgets, this fact sheet will… Read More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2443,"featured_media":5889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-extension-publications","category-leases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNegotiating a Fair Cash Lease Rate in Texas - Texas Agriculture Law<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2018\/04\/09\/negotiating-fair-cash-lease-rate-texas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Negotiating a Fair Cash Lease Rate in Texas - Texas Agriculture Law\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One of the most common questions I am asked is how much a person should charge (if a landowner) or pay (if a tenant) for an agricultural lease.\u00a0 To help folks answer this question, I have put together a fact sheet listing several free resources available to Texas landowners that may help in this process.\u00a0 From who to talk to at the coffee shop, to the United States Department of Agriculture surveys, to a Texas Land Value Trend report, to Agricultural Economics Department budgets, this fact sheet will... 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