Farmland Atlas · county record

Quitman County, Georgia

Quitman County, GA: land and buildings $3,653 an acre in the 2022 census; crop insurance loss ratio 1.28 since 1989. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 13239. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Quitman County had no acres published in farms in the 2022 census. County averages here describe very little farmland; read them with care.

Land in Quitman County was valued at $3,653 per acre in 2022, up 58.3 percent from 2017, or 9.6 percent a year.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
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county not in the NASS cash rents survey frame
Land and buildings
$3,653/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
GA median $4,057
Rent as % of land value
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not shown: NASS published no non-irrigated cash rent for this county in 2022
Corn yield, median
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NASS publishes no county corn yield series for this county
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$11.09
2016–2025, closed crop years
GA median $13.24
Farmland rented
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suppressed by NASS

Cash rent

Cash rent— county not in the NASS cash rents survey frame

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$3,653/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$2,133/ac
Census 2017$2,307/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+58.3%+9.6% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— NASS published no non-irrigated cash rent for this county in 2022

Corn yield

County corn yield— NASS publishes no county corn yield series for this county

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$11.09
Loss ratio, 2016–20250.96claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20251.28$4.7 million paid
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025heat and drought 66% · other 19% · excess moisture 8%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

200020052010201520202025526

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, 2000–2025265 of 1,357 weeks20% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks201252 weeks
Last five years, 2021–20257 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202671.2 °F1991–2020 normal 70.6 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.30 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September26.2 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 108% 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 published no harvested cropland for this county
Farmed no-till, 20224% of cropland120 ac
1986199119962001200620112016202101,101177

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

CRP enrolled, 2025177 ac
CRP expiring FY2026–202817 ac10% of enrolled acres
CRP average rental payment, FY2025$60/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer
Cattle and calves, 20221,596+103.3% since 2017

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueClaims per $100
Quitman County——$3,653$11.09
Barbour County, AL$59$131 2023$2,617$10.05
Clay County$83—$3,401$12.61
Randolph County$63$207$2,912$9.77
Stewart County—$152$3,010$21.02
Median next door$63$180 2 co.$2,961$11.33

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. Quitman 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/quitman-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.