Farmland Atlas · county record

Scott County, Arkansas

Scott County, AR: non-irrigated cash rent $23 an acre (2026); land and buildings $3,109 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 05127. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in Scott County, AR stands at $23 per acre in 2026, up 31.4 percent from 2016. Only 1 percent of harvested cropland is irrigated, and all irrigation water in 2015 came from groundwater. The county spent 139 of 1357 weeks in severe drought or worse over 2000-2025, with 2012 the worst year at 28 weeks; the July nightly low trend since 1976 runs 0.52 F per decade, warming.

Cash rent, non-irrigated

$23/ac

2026 county average
AR median $30 · tied for 9th lowest of 61

Land and buildings

$3,109/ac

2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
AR median $3,631 · 19th lowest of 75

Rent as % of land value

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not shown: cropland is 29% 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

20%

2022 census, rented from others
AR median 29% · 14th 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$23/ac

Change 2016 to 2026+31.4%nominal, $18 to $23

Pasture, 2026$22/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$3,109/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price

Census 2012$2,197/ac

Census 2017$2,454/ac

Change 2017 to 2022+26.7%+4.8% a year, nominal

Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 29% 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, 2000–2025139 of 1,357 weeks10% of weeks

Year with the most D2+ weeks201228 weeks

Last five years, 2021–202513 weeks

July average of daily lows, 2017–202669.7 °F1991–2020 normal 68.7 °F

Trend in July lows since 1976+0.52 °F a decadewarming

Rain, April to September28.3 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 110% of it

Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.9 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 20221%

Drained by tile, 20222% of cropland550 ac

Farmed no-till, 20222% of cropland560 ac

Cover crops, 20221% of cropland240 ac

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

CRP enrolled, 2025323 ac1.2% of harvested cropland + CRP

CRP expiring FY2026–20280 ac0% of enrolled acres

CRP average rental payment, FY2025$42/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer

Cattle and calves, 202225,991+18.3% since 2017

Farmland rented from others, 202220%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

County	Dry rent	Land value	Claims per $100
Scott County	$23	$3,109	—
Logan County	$33	$3,129	$12.72
Montgomery County	$29	$3,481	—
Polk County	$31	$3,901	—
Sebastian County	$35	$4,298	$20.11
Yell County	$26	$3,691	$16.16
Le Flore County, OK	$22	$2,896	$16.13
Median next door	$30	$3,586	$16.15

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. Scott 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/scott-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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