The ecosystem services of the cropland under different farming modes in the rainfed region in southern Henan Province were evaluated using monetary normalization method. In this region, winter wheatsummer maize rotation is the major farming practice. Data of field experiment during 2007-2014 were used. Six farming modes were designed: traditional tillage (T₁), nonstraw mulching and non-subsoiling before sowing for corn + straw mulching and nontillage for wheat (T₂), straw mulching and nonsubsoiling for corn + nonstraw mulching and nontillage for wheat (T₃), nonstraw mulching and subsoiling before sowing for corn + nonstraw mulching and nontillage for wheat (T₄), straw mulching and subsoiling before sowing for corn + straw mulching and nontillage for wheat (T₅), and nonstraw mulching and nonsubsoiling for corn + strawreturn and rotary tilling (T₆). The ecosystem service values of agricultural production, organic matter accumulation, nutrition accumulation and cycling, water storage, and air regulation were assessed. The results showed that T₅ had the highest value of total ecosystem services (49326 yuan·hm^-2), followed by T₁ (45345 yuan·hm^-2), and then T₄, T₂, T₃, and T₆ in order. The total ecosystem services value of T₅ was 8.78%, 9.67%, 13.46%, 13.57% and 19.03% higher than T₁, T₄, T₂, T₃ and T₆, respectively. The results suggested that mode T₅ is extendable in the rainfed region in southern Henan Province because it fits the ecological and climatic features and the local crop production system.