Farmland Atlas · county record

Union County, Georgia

Union County, GA: non-irrigated cash rent $45 an acre (2026); land and buildings $8,109 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 13291. Figures as of 2026-10-14.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$45/ac
2026 county average
GA median $58 · 39th lowest of 105
Land and buildings
$8,109/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth · GA cropland 2026: $4,670 (state survey)
GA median $4,057 · 14th highest of 135
Rent as % of land value
n/a
not shown: cropland is 49% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland
Corn yield
n/a
fewer than 8 published county corn yields
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
n/a
under the premium floor for a figure
Farmland rented
30%
2022 census, rented from others
GA median 24% · 33rd highest of 138
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Non-irrigated cash rent in Union County is $45 per acre. Land value has climbed 40.5 percent since 2017, a 7 percent yearly gain, while rent has stayed flat. July nights are warming. The county has no irrigated acres, no CRP, and no wind or solar power.

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Cash rent

$0$10$20$30$40$50$60202120222023202420252026$43$45 dry

Dollars per acre, USDA NASS county survey. A break in a line is a year with no published survey.

Every published Georgia county rate, side by side: Georgia cash rent by county.

Non-irrigated, 2026$45/ac
Pasture, 2026$24/ac

Insuring pasture or hay? See PRF rainfall insurance in Union County: its grids, county values and record.

Rent as a share of corn gross, 20248.3%$59 non-irrigated rent 2024 ÷ (141.5 bu, 2024 county yield, all practices × $5.00 Georgia price received); the county reports no irrigated corn

Share of gross is a past year, all observed: that year's rent, that year's county corn yield of the same practice and the state price received, USDA NASS. Rent per bushel uses this year's rent over the 14-yr trend. The calculator below starts from that trend and lets you put in your own yield and price.

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$8,109/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$6,015/ac
Census 2017$5,771/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+40.5%+7.0% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census valueCropland is 49% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland
Georgia cropland, 2026 state survey$4,670/ac+3.3% from 2025 · USDA NASS Land Values, state average
Georgia farm real estate, 2026$4,950/acland and buildings, state average
Georgia pasture, 2026$5,100/acstate average

The census value is this county's, from 2022. The survey figures are the Georgia average for 2026, from the USDA NASS Land Values report. NASS publishes that survey by state, not by county, so this page does not scale one into the other.

Corn yield

County corn yieldFewer than 8 published county corn yields

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.

Drought and weather

20002005201020152020202519530

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, 2000–2025210 of 1,304 weeks16% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks200853 weeks
Last five years, 2020–202513 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202663.8 °F1991–2020 normal 62.4 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.54 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September30.5 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 111% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.8 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Rain so far this year in Georgia, county by county

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 20221%
Drained by tile, 20222% of cropland306 ac
Farmed no-till, 202211% of cropland1,607 ac
Cover crops, 20222% of cropland300 ac
198619911996200120062011201620210590

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac
Cattle and calves, 20226,032+37.7% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202230%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentLand value
Union County$45$8,109
Fannin Countyn/a$10,817
Lumpkin County$26 2025$9,926
Towns County$46$7,672
White County$53$11,468
Cherokee County, NC$74$6,855
Clay County, NC$65 2024$6,386
Median next door$53$8,799

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. Union County, Georgia. Figures as of 2026-10-14, from USDA NASS, USDA RMA, USDA FSA, the U.S. Drought Monitor and NOAA. https://agsist.com/farmland-atlas/georgia/union-county
Every figure is a county average from the sources named below. Rent ranks count every county with a published rent in the same survey year, within the state (the same counties as the state rent page); other ranks count counties with 10,000 acres or more in farms. 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.