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Hart County, Georgia

Hart County, GA: non-irrigated cash rent $40 an acre (2026); land and buildings $7,267 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 152.1 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 13147. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in Hart County stands at $40 per acre in 2026, up 40.4 percent from 2016, against a Census land value of $7,267 per acre in 2022, which itself rose 29.3 percent from 2017-2022. The July average nightly low over 2017-2026 was 70.2 F, above the 1991-2020 normal of 69 F, on a warming trend of 0.42 F per decade since 1976.

Cash rent, non-irrigated

$40/ac

2026 county average
GA median $58 · tied for 31st lowest of 103

Land and buildings

$7,267/ac

2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
GA median $4,057 · 18th highest of 135

Rent as % of land value

—

not shown: cropland is 45% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield, 2008–2025 median

152.1 bu/ac

12 published years

Claims paid per $100 of coverage

$13.90

2016–2025, closed crop years
GA median $13.24 · 40th highest of 85

Farmland rented

27%

2022 census, rented from others
GA median 24% · 49th highest 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$40/ac

Change 2016 to 2026+40.4%nominal, $29 to $40

Pasture, 2026$29/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$7,267/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price

Census 2012$5,181/ac

Census 2017$5,622/ac

Change 2017 to 2022+29.3%+5.3% a year, nominal

Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 45% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield

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

Median, 2008–2025152.1 bu/ac12 published years

Lowest published year2022: 72.3 bu/ac48% of median

Trend, 2008–2025+1.4 bu/ac a year±5.4 (95% interval)

Crop insurance record

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$13.90

Loss ratio, 2016–20250.80claims ÷ total premium

Loss ratio, 1989–20250.82$1.7 million paid

Largest causes of loss, 1990–2025heat and drought 70% · excess moisture 21% · other 5%share of dollars paid

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, 2000–2025288 of 1,357 weeks21% of weeks

Year with the most D2+ weeks200853 weeks

Last five years, 2021–202515 weeks

July average of daily lows, 2017–202670.2 °F1991–2020 normal 69.0 °F

Trend in July lows since 1976+0.42 °F a decadewarming

Rain, April to September23.7 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 102% of it

Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.3 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, 2022under 1% of cropland119 ac

Farmed no-till, 202224% of cropland7,547 ac

Cover crops, 20223% of cropland818 ac

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac

CRP expiring FY2026–20280 ac

Cattle and calves, 202213,200−37.2% since 2017

Farmland rented from others, 202227%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

County	Dry rent	Land value	Claims per $100
Hart County	$40	$7,267	$13.90
Elbert County	$37	$4,492	—
Franklin County	$34	$7,127	—
Madison County	$36	$7,085	—
Anderson County, SC	$24	$7,011	$26.42
Oconee County, SC	$33	$7,485	—
Median next door	$34	$7,085	$26.42 1 co.

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. Hart 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/hart-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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