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Pike County, Alabama

Pike County, AL: non-irrigated cash rent $40 an acre (2026); land and buildings $3,381 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 101.9 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 01109. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Cash rent, non-irrigated

$40/ac

2026 county average
AL median $46 · tied for 22nd lowest of 59

Land and buildings

$3,381/ac

2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
AL median $3,400 · 33rd lowest of 67

Rent as % of land value

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not shown: about 13% of cropland is irrigated (USGS 2015 irrigated acres over 2022 harvested cropland), so dry rent over the all-land census value is not a yield on anything

Corn yield, 2009–2025 median

101.9 bu/ac

13 published years · irrigated and dryland combined

Claims paid per $100 of coverage

$15.87

2016–2025, closed crop years
AL median $10.32 · 12th highest of 53

Farmland rented

15%

2022 census, rented from others
AL median 26% · 9th lowest of 67

Cash rent

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$40/ac

Change 2016 to 2026+37.9%nominal, $29 to $40

Pasture, 2026$36/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$3,381/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price

Census 2012$2,278/ac

Census 2017$2,620/ac

Change 2017 to 2022+29.0%+5.2% a year, nominal

Dry rent ÷ census value— about 13% of cropland is irrigated (USGS 2015 irrigated acres over 2022 harvested cropland), so dry rent over the all-land census value is not a yield on anything

Corn yield

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

Median, 2009–2025101.9 bu/ac13 published years, irrigated and dryland combined

Lowest published year2011: 64.8 bu/ac64% of median

Trend, 2009–2025+3.1 bu/ac a year±2.8 (95% interval)

Crop insurance record

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$15.87

Loss ratio, 2016–20250.75claims ÷ total premium

Loss ratio, 1989–20251.28$43.7 million paid

Years claims exceeded premium3 of 10

Worst year2011ratio 1.45

Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025heat and drought 55% · other 20% · excess moisture 18%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

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, 2000–2025187 of 1,357 weeks14% of weeks

Year with the most D2+ weeks201239 weeks

Last five years, 2021–202510 weeks

July average of daily lows, 2017–202670.7 °F1991–2020 normal 70.1 °F

Trend in July lows since 1976+0.29 °F a decadewarming

Rain, April to September27.3 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 117% of it

Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.6 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, 20229% of cropland3,212 ac

Farmed no-till, 202218% of cropland6,231 ac

Cover crops, 202213% of cropland4,531 ac

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

CRP enrolled, 20251,534 ac5.8% of harvested cropland + CRP

CRP expiring FY2026–2028216 ac14% of enrolled acres

CRP average rental payment, FY2025$40/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer

Cattle and calves, 202222,628−7.3% since 2017

Farmland rented from others, 202215%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

County	Dry rent	Irr. rent	Land value	Corn yield	Claims per $100
Pike County	$40	—	$3,381	—	$15.87
Barbour County	$59	$131 2023	$2,617	—	$10.05
Bullock County	$33 2025	—	$2,258	—	$10.32
Coffee County	$50	—	$3,859	—	$22.74
Crenshaw County	$30	—	$3,002	—	$23.80
Dale County	$55	$72 2024	$3,912	122.2	$13.20
Montgomery County	$30	—	$3,146	—	$10.66
Median next door	$50	—	$3,074	122.2 1 co.	$11.93

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. Pike 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/pike-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.

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