FarmRent

Illinois farmer tools

Five ungated calculators — max cash rent you can pay, lease style, county rent context, basis & storage, and input sensitivity.

Free planning tools · not a lease, bid, or advice

Own farmland?

Break-even cash rent

Max cash rent ($/acre) you can pay given price, yield, non-land costs, and an optional profit target.

Blank counts as 0. Must be 0 or more.

Enter price, yield, and non-land cost to see max cash rent.

How this works

Max cash rent ≈ (crop price × yield) − non-land production cost − profit target. Change any input to see how the ceiling moves. Not advice.

Cash vs share

Compare cash rent to a crop-share split on the same ground — your operator net side by side.

What you’d pay on a cash lease

Your share: 50%

Expected sale price

Who pays listed costs

Enter cash rent, landowner share, price, and yield to compare.

Planning comparison from the numbers you enter. Not a lease offer, not an appraisal, and not legal or tax advice. Who pays what should match your written lease. Talk with your attorney, lender, or farm advisor before you sign or change a lease.

How this works

Cash: you pay the cash rent you enter, cover the non-land costs in the model, and keep what’s left of crop value. Share: landowner share % sets how crop value splits; your share is the rest. Under farmer pays all listed costs, you cover those inputs on both cards. Under share listed costs 50/50, listed inputs (fertilizer, seed, chemicals) split half-and-half on the share card. Nets use the price, yield, and costs you enter — not a survey rent pasted in as output. Confirm locally before you sign.

Crop share & P&L

County rent context

Published Illinois cash-rent context for any county — same honesty as our county pages.

Pick a county.

How this works

Same published honesty as county pages. Null-both counties never get a fake county $.

Basis & storage

See basis (cash − futures) and a plain sell-now vs store comparison.

Optional. May be negative. Blank counts as 0.

Enter cash and futures to see basis.

How this works

Basis = local cash bid − futures reference. Store adjusts cash by expected basis change minus storage cost × months. Local elevators set real bids — confirm before you price grain.

Input sensitivity

If nitrogen cost moves, how much does max cash rent move.

Example: nitrogen

Optional. Leave blank to see the cost change only.

Enter N rate and price change to see the rent impact.

How this works

Delta ≈ N rate (lb/acre) × N price change ($/lb). Revised max rent ≈ baseline max rent − delta when costs rise. Example crop: nitrogen.