County farm facts

Worth County, Georgia

Worth County, GA: non-irrigated cash rent $113 an acre (2026); land and buildings $3,837 an acre in the 2022 census. Bids, weather, crops, land and programs for one county. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 13321. Figures as of Oct 19, 2026; the rows marked with a date load the newest reading when the page opens.

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Stands out against its own record

22 weeks

With half the county or more in severe drought (D2) or worse in 2026 so far, the most since 2012 (37 weeks).

U.S. Drought Monitor weekly maps, 2000 to 2026 (40 maps this year)

As of Oct 16, cash rent in Worth County runs $113 an acre for 2026, tied for 8th highest of 105 in Georgia and well above the $58 state median. That is up 29.9% from $87 in 2016. The census value of land and buildings came to $3,837 an acre in 2022, up 27.8% from $3,003 in 2017. Corn made 181.5 bu in 2024, a touch under the county median of 183.1 bu going back to 2008.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$113/ac
2026 county average
GA median $58 · tied for 8th highest of 105
Cash rent, irrigated
$251/ac
2026 county average
GA median $231 · 16th highest of 39
Land and buildings
$3,837/ac
2022: operators' own estimate of what land and buildings were worth · GA farm real estate 2026: $4,950 (land and buildings, state survey)
GA median $4,057 · 58th lowest of 135
Corn yield, 2020-24 average
187.9 bu/ac
high and low dropped · 2024 county yield 181.5 · irrigated and dryland combined · rent-per-bushel trend withheld: county yield mixes irrigated and dryland acres
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$10.94
2016–2025, closed crop years
GA median $13.24 · 24th lowest of 85
Farmland rented
31%
2022 census, rented from others
GA median 24% · 29th highest of 138
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Grain and prices within 50 miles

Corn bid
Soybean bid
Corn basis
Soybean basis
Corn futures
Soybean futures

Bids are posted elevator prices within 50 miles of the county middle, or of your own field or saved place in this county when this device has one (each row says which), best and nearest, never a buyer's name. Not a contract; call before you haul. Livestock lines show where the 2022 Census counts 1,000 head or more: milk for milk cows, feeder cattle for beef cows, live cattle for cattle on feed, hogs for hogs, hay for all cattle.

Georgia cash bids by town · Bids from your own ZIP or farm, in Fast Facts

Cash bids by town near the middle of Worth County: Valdosta (60 mi).

Weather and the season

Rain since Jan 1
Drought this week
Hail, last 30 days

Rain so far this year in Worth County, Georgia

Drought, year by year

2000200520102015202020254611

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, 2000–2025230 of 1,357 weeks17% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks200046 weeks
Last five full years, 2021–202512 weeks
2026 so far22 weekshalf the county or more in D2, 40 weekly maps
July average of daily lows, 2017–202672.1 °F1991–2020 normal 70.9 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.38 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September, usual25.5 in1991–2020 county normal, NOAA; the 2017–2026 seasons averaged 27.8 in
Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.5 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail
Corn growing degree days, May to September4,009middle of 1996–2025; 2016–2025 averaged 4,085

Crops

Corn harvested
Soybeans harvested

Corn yield

200820102012201420162018202020222024131.0213.7181.5median 183.1

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

Trend for rent per bushelCounty yield mixes irrigated and dryland acres
2024 county yield181.5 bu/acall practices
2020-24 average187.9 bu/ac5 published years, high and low dropped
Median, 2008–2024183.1 bu/ac17 published years, irrigated and dryland combined
Lowest published year2008: 131.0 bu/ac72% of median
Trend, 2008–2024+2.0 bu/ac a year±1.8 (95% interval)

Land rent, value, sales

Cash rent

$0$50$100$150$200$2502010201520202025$67$113 dry$154$251 irrigated

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$113/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+29.9%nominal, $87 to $113
Irrigated, 2026$251/ac
Pasture, 2026$55/ac
Rent as a share of corn grossCounty yield mixes irrigated and dryland acres (2024)

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 is withheld here: it needs the county trend, and the trend is withheld (see the corn yield section). The calculator below takes your own yield and price.

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$3,837/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$2,584/ac
Census 2017$3,003/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+27.8%+5.0% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census valueAbout 26% of cropland is irrigated (2022 census), so dry rent over the all-land census value is not a yield on anything
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.

Programs and risk

ARC or PLC sign-up

Benchmarks, payments and the choice for each crop: ARC or PLC in Worth County.

Insuring pasture or hay? PRF rainfall insurance for pasture and hay in Worth County: its grids, county values and record are on the county PRF page.

Crop insurance record

198919941999200420092014201920248.510.661.00: claims equal premium

Claims paid divided by total premium (the farmer share plus the federal subsidy), each closed crop year since 1989 with at least $1,000,000 of premium; a year under that has no bar and no ratio. 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$10.94
Loss ratio, 2016–20251.07claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20251.04$172.2 million paid
Years claims exceeded premium16 of 37crop years 1989–2025 with a loss ratio
Worst year1990ratio 8.51, of the 37 crop years with at least $1,000,000 of premium
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025heat and drought 45% · wind 16% · excess moisture 13%share of dollars paid

Conservation Reserve Program

198619911996200120062011201620214129,4833,480

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

CRP enrolled, 20253,480 ac3.2% of harvested cropland + CRP
CRP expiring FY2027–2029316 ac9% of enrolled acres
CRP average rental payment, FY2025$106/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer

What farms here look like

Harvested cropland irrigated, 202226%
Drained by tile, 20224% of cropland5,391 ac
Farmed no-till, 202223% of cropland28,930 ac
Cover crops, 202213% of cropland16,424 ac
Cattle and calves, 20226,944−38.5% since 2017
Hogs and pigs, 202217head, Census of Agriculture
Farmland rented from others, 202231%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

USDA Census of Agriculture 2022, except wells (state well register) and power (EIA Form 860).

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Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueCorn yield, medianClaims per $100
Worth County$113$251$3,837183.1$10.94
Colquitt County$120$255$4,183193.7$12.32
Crisp County$83$242 2025$3,063n/a$6.79
Dougherty Countyn/an/a$4,051n/a$17.02
Lee County$74$270$3,563n/a$14.69
Mitchell County$112$260$4,002n/a$11.52
Tift County$111$256$4,310n/a$16.43
Turner County$91$284$3,300n/a$10.66
Median next door$101$260$4,002193.7 1 co.$12.32

Counties that share a stretch of boundary. A rent from an older survey year carries its year and stays out of the median; one more than three survey years old shows n/a. The corn median here needs 15 published years, so a county with fewer shows n/a even where its own page gives a median.

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AGSIST Farmland Atlas. Worth County, Georgia. Figures as of Oct 19, 2026, from USDA NASS, USDA RMA, USDA FSA, the U.S. Drought Monitor and NOAA. https://agsist.com/farmland-atlas/georgia/worth-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.

This product uses the NASS API but is not endorsed or certified by NASS. Averages, trends, ranks and estimates are calculations by AGSIST.

Rent: USDA NASS Cash Rents Survey, county. Land value: Census of Agriculture, operators' estimate of land and buildings. Yield: NASS county corn yields. The headline trend, the one rent per bushel uses, is fitted here over the published years in the 15 years ending this year; the yearly trend card uses 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. Claims paid per $100 of coverage: claims divided by liability (the insured value), times 100, same source. 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 missing figure is named with its reason (in a table it reads n/a).