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Craighead County, Arkansas

Craighead County, AR: non-irrigated cash rent $55 an acre (2023); land and buildings $4,451 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 184.4 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 05031. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Cash rent, non-irrigated

$55/ac

2023 county average
too few 2023 county surveys in the state to compare

Cash rent, irrigated

$159/ac

2026 county average
AR median $158 · 13th highest of 27

Land and buildings

$4,451/ac

2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
AR median $3,631 · 11th highest of 75

Corn yield, 2008–2025 median

184.4 bu/ac

15 published years · irrigated and dryland combined
AR median 180.1 · 9th highest of 21

Claims paid per $100 of coverage

$9.27

2016–2025, closed crop years
AR median $13.59 · 11th lowest of 41

Farmland rented

83%

2022 census, rented from others
AR median 29% · 3rd highest of 75

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, 2023$55/ac

Change 2012 to 2023−12.8%nominal, $63 to $55

Irrigated, 2026$159/ac

Pasture, 2026$20/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$4,451/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price

Census 2012$3,208/ac

Census 2017$4,613/ac

Change 2017 to 2022−3.5%−0.7% a year, nominal

Dry rent ÷ census value— about 100% 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, 2008–2025184.4 bu/ac15 published years, irrigated and dryland combined

Lowest published year2011: 147.3 bu/ac80% of median

Trend, 2008–2025+1.3 bu/ac a year±1.4 (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$9.27

Loss ratio, 2016–20251.42claims ÷ total premium

Loss ratio, 1989–20251.07$137.0 million paid

Years claims exceeded premium10 of 29

Worst year2025ratio 2.60

Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025excess moisture 82% · heat and drought 9% · wind 3%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, 2000–202594 of 1,357 weeks7% of weeks

Year with the most D2+ weeks201221 weeks

Last five years, 2021–202514 weeks

July average of daily lows, 2017–202672.1 °F1991–2020 normal 71.1 °F

Trend in July lows since 1976+0.34 °F a decadeno clear direction

Rain, April to September25.4 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 113% of it

Days with hail 1 inch or larger2.6 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, 202219% of cropland51,222 ac

Farmed no-till, 202213% of cropland35,641 ac

Cover crops, 202216% of cropland43,116 ac

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

CRP enrolled, 20251,441 ac0.6% of harvested cropland + CRP

CRP expiring FY2026–2028582 ac40% of enrolled acres

CRP average rental payment, FY2025$82/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer

Solar and wind operating, 202511 MW solar · 0 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860

Cattle and calves, 20223,325−34.0% since 2017

Farmland rented from others, 202283%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

County	Dry rent	Irr. rent	Land value	Corn yield	Claims per $100
Craighead County	$55 2023	$159	$4,451	184.4	$9.27
Greene County	$105	$192	$4,818	176.0	$10.77
Jackson County	$114 2025	$185	$4,007	168.9	$24.25
Lawrence County	$90	$150	$4,609	—	$16.05
Mississippi County	$169	$184	$4,584	174.5	$3.74
Poinsett County	$110	$184	$4,440	180.1	$7.51
Dunklin County, MO	$131 2025	$203 2024	$6,938	173.0	$8.36
Median next door	$108	$184	$4,597	174.5	$9.57

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. Craighead County, Arkansas. 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/arkansas/craighead-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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