Kankakee County, Illinois
Kankakee County, IL: non-irrigated cash rent $250 an acre (2026); land and buildings $6,734 an acre in the 2022 census, flagged to read with care. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 17091. Figures as of 2026-10-14.
IL median $254 · 42nd lowest of 86
IL median $275 · 4th highest of 9
IL median $2.04 · tied for 45th highest of 101
IL median 55% · 17th highest of 101
Corn here has been climbing at 3.4 bushels per acre a year from 2008 to 2023, with a median yield of 174.3 bushels. The worst year was 2015 at 92.5 bushels, when drought hit hard. Heat and drought made up 53 percent of crop insurance payouts in 1989-1999 but have eased to 37 percent in 2020-2025. Excess moisture and flood is now the largest cause at 44 percent of all indemnities paid since 1989. Non-irrigated cash rent is $250 per acre in 2026, up 37.4 percent since 2016, while irrigated ground rents for $290 per acre. The loss ratio over 2016-2025 was 0.36, well below the long-term average.
Cash rent
Dollars per acre, USDA NASS county survey. A break in a line is a year with no published survey.
Every published Illinois county rate, side by side: Illinois cash rent by county.
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
The census value is this county's, from 2022. The survey figures are the Illinois 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
Bushels per acre, USDA NASS county yields, all practices. The dashed line is the median of the published years.
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.
Drought and weather
Weeks per year, U.S. Drought Monitor, with half the county or more in D2 (severe) drought or worse.
Rain so far this year in Illinois, county by county
Land, water and programs
Acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, USDA FSA, by fiscal year.
Next door
| County | Dry rent | Irr. rent | Land value | Corn yield | Claims per $100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kankakee County | $250 | $290 | $6,734 | 174.3 | $2.24 |
| Ford County | $294 | n/a | $9,956 | 186.7 | $1.11 |
| Grundy County | $291 | n/a | $10,311 | 188.0 | $2.09 |
| Iroquois County | n/a | n/a | $8,638 | 186.2 | $1.54 |
| Livingston County | $278 2023 | n/a | $10,108 | 197.2 | $1.21 |
| Will County | $231 | n/a | $10,259 | 177.8 | $3.38 |
| Lake County, IN | $186 | n/a | $7,916 | 167.4 | $2.73 |
| Newton County, IN | $235 | n/a | $8,765 | 185.1 | $1.32 |
| Median next door | $235 | n/a | $9,956 | 186.2 | $1.54 |
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. Kankakee County, Illinois. 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/illinois/kankakee-countyEvery 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.