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Barbour County, Alabama

Barbour County, AL: non-irrigated cash rent $59 an acre (2026); land and buildings $2,617 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 166.3 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 01005. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Cash rent, non-irrigated
$59/ac
2026 county average
AL median $46 · 19th highest of 59
Cash rent, irrigated
$131/ac
2023 county average
too few 2023 county surveys in the state to compare
Land and buildings
$2,617/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
AL median $3,400 · 16th lowest of 67
Corn yield, 2009–2023 median
166.3 bu/ac
recent level 2019–2023: 177.0
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$10.05
2016–2025, closed crop years
AL median $10.32 · tied for 25th lowest of 53
Farmland rented
18%
2022 census, rented from others
AL median 26% · 17th lowest of 67

Cash rent

$0$10$20$30$40$50$602010201520202025$30$59 dry

Dollars per acre, USDA NASS county survey. A break in a line is a year with no published survey; nothing is drawn across it.

Non-irrigated, 2026$59/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+69.6%nominal, $35 to $59
Irrigated, 2023$131/ac
Pasture, 2026$38/ac
Dry rent per bushel of corn$0.33$59 ÷ 177.0 bu, county yield 2019–2023

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$2,617/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$2,261/ac
Census 2017$2,233/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+17.2%+3.2% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 26% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield

20092011201320152017201920212023109.0192.3186.9median 166.3

Bushels per acre, USDA NASS county yields, all practices. The dashed line is the median of the published years.

Median, 2009–2023166.3 bu/ac13 published years
Recent level, 2019–2023177.0 bu/ac5 published years, high and low dropped
Lowest published year2010: 79.4 bu/ac48% of median
Trend, 2009–2023+5.5 bu/ac a year±3.6 (95% interval)

Crop insurance record

1995200020052010201520201.480.361.031.390.210.670.560.340.280.911.481.00: claims equal premium

Claims paid divided by total premium (the farmer share plus the federal subsidy), each closed crop year since 1989. Above the dashed line, the county's insurance book paid out more than it took in. 2026, still open, is left out.

Claims paid per $100 of coverage, 2016–2025$10.05
Loss ratio, 2016–20250.69claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20251.22$40.0 million paid
Years claims exceeded premium4 of 11
Worst year1995ratio 1.48
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025heat and drought 58% · other 22% · excess moisture 13%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

20002005201020152020202538525

Weeks per year, U.S. Drought Monitor, with half the county or more in D2 (severe) drought or worse.

D2 or worse for half the county, 2000–2025233 of 1,357 weeks17% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks201252 weeks
Last five years, 2021–20257 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202670.9 °F1991–2020 normal 70.6 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.23 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September26.8 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 110% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.3 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 2022— NASS suppressed the irrigated acres to protect individual farms
Drained by tile, 20225% of cropland2,558 ac
Farmed no-till, 202233% of cropland18,121 ac
Cover crops, 20229% of cropland5,209 ac
1986199119962001200620112016202191119,6313,799

Acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, USDA FSA, by fiscal year.

CRP enrolled, 20253,799 ac8.1% of harvested cropland + CRP
CRP expiring FY2026–2028675 ac18% of enrolled acres
CRP average rental payment, FY2025$51/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer
Cattle and calves, 202227,451+21.7% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202218%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Barbour County$59$131 2023$2,617—$10.05
Bullock County$33 2025—$2,258—$10.32
Dale County$55$72 2024$3,912122.2$13.20
Henry County$52$129 2025$3,328—$17.29
Pike County$40—$3,381—$15.87
Russell County$42—$2,820—$10.88
Clay County, GA$83—$3,401—$12.61
Quitman County, GA——$3,653—$11.09
Stewart County, GA—$152$3,010—$21.02
Median next door$52$152 1 co.$3,355122.2 1 co.$12.91

Counties that share a stretch of boundary. An older rent carries its year and stays out of the median.

Cite this page

AGSIST Farmland Atlas. Barbour County, Alabama. Figures as of 2026-09-20, from USDA NASS, USDA RMA, USDA FSA, the U.S. Drought Monitor and NOAA. https://agsist.com/farmland-atlas/alabama/barbour-county
Every figure is a county average from the sources named below. Ranks count counties with 10,000 acres or more in farms, in the same survey year for rent, within the state. Methods: how each figure is built. Downloads: all counties, CSV.
Sources, dates and arithmetic

"Figures as of" is the date this page's numbers last changed; it moves only when a figure on the page does. Source files and their retrieval dates are listed on the data page.

Rent: USDA NASS Cash Rents Survey, county. Land value: Census of Agriculture, operators' estimate of land and buildings. Yield: NASS county corn yields, trend fitted here over every published year since 2008. Loss ratio: claims (indemnity) divided by total premium, USDA RMA Summary of Business, 1989 on, open crop year left out. Drought: U.S. Drought Monitor, weeks with half the county or more in D2 or worse. July lows: NOAA nClimDiv county monthly minimum temperature. A dash means the record does not carry the figure or the source withheld it; the reason is printed beside it.