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Marion County, Arkansas

Marion County, AR: non-irrigated cash rent $30 an acre (2026); land and buildings $2,692 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 05089. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in Marion County, AR stands at $30 per acre in 2026, up 76.5 percent from 2016. Land value reached $2,692 per acre in 2022, a gain of 10.4 percent over 2017-2022, or 2 percent a year. Severe drought touched the county during 87 of 1357 weeks in 2000-2025, with 2012 carrying 28 of those weeks; the July nightly low trend since 1976 shows no clear direction, and the 2017-2026 average of 68.1 F runs above the 1991-2020 normal of 67 F.

Cash rent, non-irrigated

$30/ac

2026 county average
AR median $30 · tied for 30th highest of 61

Land and buildings

$2,692/ac

2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
AR median $3,631 · 6th lowest of 75

Rent as % of land value

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not shown: cropland is 13% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield, median

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fewer than 8 published county corn yields

Claims paid per $100 of coverage

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RMA Summary of Business has no rows for this county

Farmland rented

18%

2022 census, rented from others
AR median 29% · 11th lowest 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, 2026$30/ac

Change 2016 to 2026+76.5%nominal, $17 to $30

Pasture, 2026$32/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$2,692/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price

Census 2012$2,014/ac

Census 2017$2,438/ac

Change 2017 to 2022+10.4%+2.0% a year, nominal

Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 13% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield

County corn yield— fewer than 8 published county corn yields

Crop insurance record

Premium and payouts— RMA Summary of Business has no rows for this county

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, 2000–202587 of 1,357 weeks6% of weeks

Year with the most D2+ weeks201228 weeks

Last five years, 2021–202518 weeks

July average of daily lows, 2017–202668.1 °F1991–2020 normal 67.0 °F

Trend in July lows since 1976+0.37 °F a decadeno clear direction

Rain, April to September25.0 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 107% of it

Days with hail 1 inch or larger1.0 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, 2022none reported

Farmed no-till, 20221% of cropland264 ac

Cover crops, 20222% of cropland339 ac

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac

Cattle and calves, 202227,618−34.7% since 2017

Farmland rented from others, 202218%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

County	Dry rent	Land value
Marion County	$30	$2,692
Baxter County	$26	$3,094
Boone County	$36	$3,933
Searcy County	$19	$2,700
Ozark County, MO	$32	$2,762
Taney County, MO	$24	$3,385
Median next door	$26	$3,094

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. Marion 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/marion-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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