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Woodford County, Illinois

Woodford County, IL: non-irrigated cash rent $290 an acre (2025); land and buildings $10,987 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 206.0 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 17203. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in Woodford County averages $290 per acre in 2025, up 18.4 percent from 2014. Census value of land and buildings was $10,987 per acre in 2022, up 22.5 percent from 2017, or 4.1 percent a year. The corn yield trend runs 3.4 bushels per acre a year on published years 2008-2025, with a median of 206 bushels per acre and a worst year of 102.5 in 2012. Heat and drought caused 58 percent of crop insurance indemnities across 1989-2025, with the share at 50 percent in 1989-1999, 41 percent in 2000-2009, 68 percent in 2010-2019, and 23 percent in 2020-2025. Weeks in severe drought or worse ran 88 of 1357 from 2000-2025, with 16 of those weeks falling in 2021-2025.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$290/ac
2025 county average
IL median of 2025 surveys $193 · 3rd highest of 10
Land and buildings
$10,987/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
IL median $8,638 · 9th highest of 91
Rent as % of land value
2.48%
$273 dry rent ÷ $10,987 land and buildings, both 2022
Corn yield, 2008–2025 median
206.0 bu/ac
recent level 2021–2025: 229.2
IL median 190.2 · 10th highest of 82
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$1.08
2016–2025, closed crop years
IL median $2.04 · 17th lowest of 101
Farmland rented
54%
2022 census, rented from others
IL median 55% · 50th lowest of 101

Cash rent

$0$50$100$150$200$250$300$3502010201520202025$194$290 dry

Dollars per acre, USDA NASS county survey. A break in a line is a year with no published survey; nothing is drawn across it.

Non-irrigated, 2025$290/ac
Change 2014 to 2025+18.4%nominal, $245 to $290
Pasture, 2026$46/ac
Dry rent per bushel of corn$1.27$290 ÷ 229.2 bu, county yield 2021–2025

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$10,987/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$7,750/ac
Census 2017$8,972/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+22.5%+4.1% a year, nominal
Dry cropland rent ÷ census value, 20222.48%$273 ÷ $10,987; cropland 88% of land in farms

Corn yield

200820102012201420162018202020222024206.0235.7235.1median 206.0

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

Median, 2008–2025206.0 bu/ac17 published years
Recent level, 2021–2025229.2 bu/ac4 published years, high and low dropped
Lowest published year2012: 102.5 bu/ac50% of median
Trend, 2008–2025+3.4 bu/ac a year±2.9 (95% interval)

Crop insurance record

1996200120062011201620210.146.230.021.00: claims equal premium

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$1.08
Loss ratio, 2016–20250.21claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20250.46$84.8 million paid
Years claims exceeded premium2 of 29
Worst year2012ratio 6.23
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025heat and drought 58% · area plans 13% · price decline (revenue policies) 10%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

20002005201020152020202582711

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, 2000–202588 of 1,357 weeks7% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks200527 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202516 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202664.9 °F1991–2020 normal 63.8 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.26 °F a decadeno clear direction
Rain, April to September23.5 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 97% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger1.3 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 2022— NASS suppressed the irrigated acres to protect individual farms
Drained by tile, 202267% of cropland163,294 ac
Farmed no-till, 202221% of cropland52,279 ac
Cover crops, 20226% of cropland13,717 ac
19861991199620012006201120162021606,7085,455

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

CRP enrolled, 20255,455 ac2.3% of harvested cropland + CRP
CRP expiring FY2026–20282,467 ac45% of enrolled acres
CRP average rental payment, FY2025$274/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer
Solar and wind operating, 20250 MW solar · 200 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860
Cattle and calves, 20226,845−12.5% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202254%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Woodford County$290 2025—$10,987206.0$1.08
LaSalle County$277—$10,136192.0$1.38
Livingston County$278 2023—$10,108197.2$1.21
Marshall County$293—$10,448202.2$1.11
McLean County$326—$7,074203.2$0.49
Peoria County$253—$7,216210.8$1.33
Tazewell County$266$268$10,389205.2$0.90
Median next door$277$268 1 co.$10,122202.7$1.16

Counties that share a stretch of boundary. An older rent carries its year and stays out of the median.

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AGSIST Farmland Atlas. Woodford 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/woodford-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.
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"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.