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Appling County, Georgia

Appling County, GA: non-irrigated cash rent $101 an acre (2026); land and buildings $3,332 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 130.0 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 13001. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in Appling County runs $101 per acre, up 20.2 percent from 2016 to 2026. Irrigated ground rents higher, at $254 per acre in 2025, and 90 percent of irrigation water came from groundwater in 2015. Corn yields show a trend of 1.9 bushels per acre a year over 2008-2020, with a median of 130 bushels per acre and a worst year of 79 in 2008. Heat and drought's share of crop insurance indemnities has moved the same direction across every period given: 67 percent in 1989-1999, 45 percent in 2000-2009, 33 percent in 2010-2019, and 11 percent in 2020-2025. Land value, per the Census operator estimate, sits at $3,332 per acre, up 2.6 percent from 2017 to 2022.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$101/ac
2026 county average
GA median $58 · tied for 19th highest of 103
Cash rent, irrigated
$254/ac
2025 county average
too few 2025 county surveys in the state to compare
Land and buildings
$3,332/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
GA median $4,057 · 38th lowest of 135
Corn yield, 2008–2020 median
130.0 bu/ac
10 published years · irrigated and dryland combined
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$18.41
2016–2025, closed crop years
GA median $13.24 · 18th highest of 85
Farmland rented
31%
2022 census, rented from others
GA median 24% · 28th highest of 138

Cash rent

$0$50$100$150$200$2502010201520202025$58$101 dry$94$254 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, 2026$101/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+20.2%nominal, $84 to $101
Irrigated, 2025$254/ac
Pasture, 2026$60/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$3,332/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$2,341/ac
Census 2017$3,249/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+2.6%+0.5% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— about 17% 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

200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202079.093.0125.0200.0156.6142.4201.5135.0119.190.0median 130.0

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

Median, 2008–2020130.0 bu/ac10 published years, irrigated and dryland combined
Lowest published year2008: 79.0 bu/ac61% of median
Trend, 2008–2020+1.9 bu/ac a year±9.0 (95% interval)

Crop insurance record

1999200420092014201920241.952.180.801.00: 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$18.41
Loss ratio, 2016–20251.35claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20251.15$99.1 million paid
Years claims exceeded premium14 of 27
Worst year2024ratio 2.18
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025heat and drought 25% · wind 23% · excess moisture 22%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

20002005201020152020202528527

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, 2000–2025186 of 1,357 weeks14% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks201152 weeks
Last five years, 2021–20257 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202672.7 °F1991–2020 normal 71.5 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.59 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September26.8 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 110% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.4 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, 20228% of cropland5,423 ac
Farmed no-till, 202227% of cropland17,908 ac
Cover crops, 202214% of cropland9,670 ac
198619911996200120062011201620218814,027586

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

CRP enrolled, 2025586 ac1% of harvested cropland + CRP
CRP expiring FY2026–2028403 ac69% of enrolled acres
CRP average rental payment, FY2025$105/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer
Solar and wind operating, 202525 MW solar · 0 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860
Cattle and calves, 20227,167−23.2% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202231%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueClaims per $100
Appling County$101$254 2025$3,332$18.41
Bacon County$88$200$3,663$22.61
Jeff Davis County$111$224$3,127$18.64
Pierce County$119—$3,076$20.75
Tattnall County$61$220$3,656$15.48
Toombs County$68$242$3,365$14.11
Wayne County$76—$3,579$13.77
Median next door$82$222$3,472$17.06

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. Appling County, Georgia. 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/georgia/appling-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.