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Barrow County, Georgia

Barrow County, GA: non-irrigated cash rent $31 an acre (2026); land and buildings $10,026 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 13013. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent for 2026 in Barrow County runs $31 per acre. Census value of land and buildings in 2022 stood at $10,026 per acre, with land value change 2017-2022 at 52.9 percent, 8.9 percent a year. The July average nightly low ran 68.8 F under the 1991-2020 normal and 70.1 F for 2017-2026, with a warming trend of 0.53 F per decade since 1976. Drought weeks fell to 11 for 2021-2025, down from 285 of 1357 weeks in severe drought or worse over 2000-2025, worst year 2008 with 53 weeks.

Cash rent, non-irrigated

$31/ac

2026 county average
GA median $58 · tied for 12th lowest of 103

Land and buildings

$10,026/ac

2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
GA median $4,057 · 5th highest of 135

Rent as % of land value

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not shown: cropland is 22% 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

22%

2022 census, rented from others
GA median 24% · 66th lowest of 138

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$31/ac

Pasture, 2026$24/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$10,026/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price

Census 2012$5,493/ac

Census 2017$6,557/ac

Change 2017 to 2022+52.9%+8.9% a year, nominal

Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 22% 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, 2000–2025285 of 1,357 weeks21% of weeks

Year with the most D2+ weeks200853 weeks

Last five years, 2021–202511 weeks

July average of daily lows, 2017–202670.1 °F1991–2020 normal 68.8 °F

Trend in July lows since 1976+0.53 °F a decadewarming

Rain, April to September25.5 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 109% 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, 2022none reported

Farmed no-till, 20224% of cropland199 ac

Cover crops, 2022under 1% of cropland19 ac

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac

Solar and wind operating, 20252 MW solar · 0 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860

Cattle and calves, 20226,910−14.9% since 2017

Farmland rented from others, 202222%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

County	Dry rent	Land value
Barrow County	$31	$10,026
Gwinnett County	—	$16,242
Jackson County	$32 2024	$8,356
Oconee County	$35 2025	$6,873
Walton County	$34	$6,750
Median next door	$34 1 co.	$7,615

Counties that share a stretch of boundary. An older rent carries its year and stays out of the median.

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AGSIST Farmland Atlas. Barrow 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/barrow-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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