Pulaski County, Illinois
Pulaski County, IL: non-irrigated cash rent $152 an acre (2026); land and buildings $5,494 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 169.9 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 17153. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Non-irrigated cash rent in Pulaski County runs $152 per acre in 2026, up 16.9 percent from 2016. The census value of land and buildings sits at $5,494 per acre for 2022, and land value rose 33.9 percent from 2017 to 2022, 6 percent a year. Most cropland here is not irrigated: only 6 percent of harvested cropland carried irrigation in the 2022 census, and where irrigation runs, it draws on groundwater at 100 percent. Crop insurance indemnities from 1989-2025 total $25.6 million, with excess moisture and flood the largest cause at 54 percent. The July average nightly low has moved from 68.8 F under the 1991-2020 normal to 70.2 F over 2017-2026, part of a warming trend of 0.5 F per decade since 1976.
IL median $254 · 9th lowest of 86
too few 2025 county surveys in the state to compare
IL median $8,638 · 11th lowest of 91
IL median 190.2 · 18th lowest of 82
IL median $2.04 · 21st highest of 101
IL median 55% · 38th highest of 101
Cash rent
Dollars per acre, USDA NASS county survey. A break in a line is a year with no published survey; nothing is drawn across it.
Land value
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulaski County | $152 | $196 2025 | $5,494 | 169.9 | $5.63 |
| Alexander County | $189 2025 | $200 2024 | $5,148 | — | $12.07 |
| Johnson County | $129 2025 | — | $4,327 | — | $13.45 |
| Massac County | $121 2025 | $203 2024 | $4,582 | — | $7.58 |
| Union County | $87 | — | $5,116 | — | $12.50 |
| Ballard County, KY | $161 | — | $4,478 | — | $3.94 |
| McCracken County, KY | $140 | — | $5,673 | — | $6.35 |
| Median next door | $140 | — | $4,849 | — | $9.83 |
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. Pulaski County, Illinois. 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/illinois/pulaski-countyEvery 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.