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Jeff Davis County, Georgia

Jeff Davis County, GA: non-irrigated cash rent $111 an acre (2026); land and buildings $3,127 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 141.1 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 13161. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in Jeff Davis County sits at $111 per acre in 2026, up 19.4 percent from 2016. The county held 412.5 MW of solar operating and 62 percent of irrigation water came from groundwater as of 2015.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$111/ac
2026 county average
GA median $58 · tied for 12th highest of 103
Cash rent, irrigated
$224/ac
2026 county average
GA median $231 · 18th lowest of 39
Land and buildings
$3,127/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
GA median $4,057 · 31st lowest of 135
Corn yield, 2008–2025 median
141.1 bu/ac
11 published years · irrigated and dryland combined
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$18.64
2016–2025, closed crop years
GA median $13.24 · tied for 13th highest of 85
Farmland rented
45%
2022 census, rented from others
GA median 24% · 3rd highest of 138

Cash rent

$0$50$100$150$200$2502010201520202025$62$111 dry$81$224 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$111/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+19.4%nominal, $93 to $111
Irrigated, 2026$224/ac
Pasture, 2025$51/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$3,127/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$3,321/ac
Census 2017$2,505/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+24.8%+4.5% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— about 21% of cropland is irrigated (2022 census), so dry rent over the all-land census value is not a yield on anything

Corn yield

200820102012201420162018202020222024122.0141.1139.6192.4111.1174.1104.7138.9179.3151.9177.1median 141.1

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

Median, 2008–2025141.1 bu/ac11 published years, irrigated and dryland combined
Lowest published year2017: 104.7 bu/ac74% of median
Trend, 2008–2025+2.1 bu/ac a year±3.7 (95% interval)

Crop insurance record

200420092014201920241.122.940.871.00: 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$18.64
Loss ratio, 2016–20251.39claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20251.28$62.5 million paid
Years claims exceeded premium11 of 19
Worst year2024ratio 2.94
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025heat and drought 37% · excess moisture 26% · wind 22%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

20002005201020152020202532520

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, 2000–2025190 of 1,357 weeks14% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks201152 weeks
Last five years, 2021–20250 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202672.5 °F1991–2020 normal 71.3 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.54 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September25.8 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 112% 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, 202221%
Drained by tile, 20221% of cropland270 ac
Farmed no-till, 202225% of cropland7,086 ac
Cover crops, 202210% of cropland2,933 ac
198619911996200120062011201620218823,876470

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

CRP enrolled, 2025470 ac1.7% of harvested cropland + CRP
CRP expiring FY2026–2028194 ac41% of enrolled acres
CRP average rental payment, FY2025$108/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer
Solar and wind operating, 2025412.5 MW solar · 0 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860
Cattle and calves, 20224,368+26.1% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202245%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Jeff Davis County$111$224$3,127—$18.64
Appling County$101$254 2025$3,332—$18.41
Bacon County$88$200$3,663—$22.61
Coffee County$108$231$4,133158.6$17.86
Montgomery County$81—$3,312—$14.09
Telfair County$59 2024—$2,451—$23.77
Toombs County$68$242$3,365—$14.11
Wheeler County——$3,641—$34.68
Median next door$88$231$3,365158.6 1 co.$18.41

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. Jeff Davis 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/jeff-davis-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.
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"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.