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Hall County, Georgia

Hall County, GA: non-irrigated cash rent $41 an acre (2026); land and buildings $13,855 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 112.0 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 13139. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Heat and drought drove 63 percent of the 1 million dollars in crop insurance indemnities paid 1995-2025, and the county spent 248 of 1357 weeks in severe drought or worse from 2000-2025, with 2008 alone logging 53 such weeks. The July nightly low trend since 1976 runs 0.49 F per decade warming, with the 2017-2026 average at 68.9 F against the 1991-2020 normal of 67.8 F. Only 1 percent of harvested cropland was irrigated at the 2022 census.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$41/ac
2026 county average
GA median $58 · tied for 33rd lowest of 103
Land and buildings
$13,855/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
GA median $4,057 · highest of 135
Dry rent per bushel of corn
$0.42
$41 ÷ 98.3 bu, recent yield 2020–2024
Corn yield, 2010–2024 median
112.0 bu/ac
recent level 2020–2024: 98.3
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
—
under the premium floor for a figure
Farmland rented
19%
2022 census, rented from others
GA median 24% · 44th lowest of 138

Cash rent

$0$10$20$30$40$502010201520202025$30$41 dry

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$41/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+57.7%nominal, $26 to $41
Pasture, 2026$46/ac
Dry rent per bushel of corn$0.42$41 ÷ 98.3 bu, county yield 2020–2024

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$13,855/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$8,212/ac
Census 2017$9,332/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+48.5%+8.2% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 28% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield

2010201220142016201820202022202468.0114.7128.0110.097.2125.0120.8114.195.9100.7129.078.8median 112.0

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

Median, 2010–2024112.0 bu/ac12 published years
Recent level, 2020–202498.3 bu/ac4 published years, high and low dropped
Lowest published year2010: 68.0 bu/ac61% of median
Trend, 2010–2024+0.3 bu/ac a year±3.0 (95% interval)

Crop insurance record

Claims paid divided by total premium (the farmer share plus the federal subsidy), each closed crop year since 1995. Above the dashed line, the county's insurance book paid out more than it took in. 2026, still open, is left out.

Loss ratio, 1995–20250.92$1.0 million paid
Largest causes of loss, 1995–2025heat and drought 63% · freeze 18% · wind 8%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

20002005201020152020202532530

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, 2000–2025248 of 1,357 weeks18% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks200853 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202511 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202668.9 °F1991–2020 normal 67.8 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.49 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September27.2 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 106% 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, 20221% of cropland82 ac
Farmed no-till, 20226% of cropland733 ac
Cover crops, 20225% of cropland610 ac
198619911996200120062011201620210497497

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

CRP enrolled, 2025497 ac5% of harvested cropland + CRP
CRP average rental payment, FY2025$16/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer
Cattle and calves, 202213,094+10.4% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202219%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentLand value
Hall County$41$13,855
Banks County$28$6,926
Dawson County$46 2025$9,260
Forsyth County$47$12,514
Gwinnett County—$16,242
Habersham County$41$8,912
Jackson County$32 2024$8,356
Lumpkin County$26 2025$9,926
White County$53$11,468
Median next door$44$9,593

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. Hall 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/hall-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.