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Lafayette County, Arkansas

Lafayette County, AR: non-irrigated cash rent $58 an acre (2025); land and buildings $2,940 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 148.4 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 05073. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Cash rent, non-irrigated
$58/ac
2025 county average
too few 2025 county surveys in the state to compare
Cash rent, irrigated
$174/ac
2026 county average
AR median $158 · tied for 8th highest of 27
Land and buildings
$2,940/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
AR median $3,631 · 14th lowest of 75
Corn yield, 2008–2024 median
148.4 bu/ac
9 published years · irrigated and dryland combined
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$18.64
2016–2025, closed crop years
AR median $13.59 · 12th highest of 41
Farmland rented
59%
2022 census, rented from others
AR median 29% · 23rd highest of 75

Cash rent

$0$50$100$1502010201520202025$29$58 dry$124$174 irrigated

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, 2025$58/ac
Change 2014 to 2025+79.7%nominal, $32 to $58
Irrigated, 2026$174/ac
Pasture, 2026$35/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$2,940/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$2,022/ac
Census 2017$2,547/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+15.4%+2.9% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— about 18% 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

200820102012201420162018202020222024142.0127.0130.0129.7165.9148.4150.9149.7159.4median 148.4

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

Median, 2008–2024148.4 bu/ac9 published years, irrigated and dryland combined
Lowest published year2009: 127.0 bu/ac86% of median

Crop insurance record

20082013201820230.172.901.071.00: 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$18.64
Loss ratio, 2016–20251.44claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20251.23$44.8 million paid
Years claims exceeded premium8 of 17
Worst year2020ratio 2.90
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025excess moisture 63% · heat and drought 21% · other 7%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

2000200520102015202020255510

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, 2000–2025164 of 1,357 weeks12% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks201151 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202517 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202672.9 °F1991–2020 normal 71.6 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.59 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September24.9 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 120% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.8 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, 20221% of cropland508 ac
Farmed no-till, 20228% of cropland4,340 ac
Cover crops, 20222% of cropland1,141 ac
19861991199620012006201120162021737360

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac
Cattle and calves, 202226,544−17.2% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202259%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueClaims per $100
Lafayette County$58 2025$174$2,940$18.64
Columbia County$17—$2,902—
Hempstead County$30—$2,902—
Miller County$32—$3,500$39.67
Nevada County$19—$2,507—
Bossier Parish, LA$38—$3,746$35.95
Webster Parish, LA$22 2025—$4,320—
Median next door$30—$3,201$37.81 2 co.

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. Lafayette 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/lafayette-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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