Farmland Atlas · county record

Monroe County, Indiana

Monroe County, IN: non-irrigated cash rent $149 an acre (2026); land and buildings $6,514 an acre in the 2022 census; corn 15-yr trend 199.7 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 18105. Figures as of 2026-10-06.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$149/ac
2026 county average
IN median $217 · 6th lowest of 89
Land and buildings
$6,514/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
IN median $8,158 · 15th lowest of 89
Dry rent per bushel of corn
$0.75
$149 ÷ 199.7 bu, 15-yr trend (projected 2026)
Corn yield, 15-yr trend (projected 2026)
199.7 bu/ac
all practices trend · 2024 county yield 191.7 · 2020-24 average 177.9 (all practices)
IN median 213.9 · 15th lowest of 60
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$8.03
2016–2025, closed crop years
IN median $2.54 · 5th highest of 92
Farmland rented
20%
2022 census, rented from others
IN median 51% · 4th lowest of 92
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Non-irrigated cash rent in Monroe County, IN is $149 per acre in 2026, up 41.9 percent from 2014. The July nightly low trend since 1976 has had no clear trend, and no July since 1900 has averaged at or above 70 F.

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Cash rent

$0$20$40$60$80$100$120$140$1602010201520202025$105$149 dry

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

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

Non-irrigated, 2026$149/ac
Change 2014 to 2026+41.9%nominal, $105 to $149
Pasture, 2025$30/ac
Dry rent per bushel of corn$0.75$149 ÷ 199.7 bu, 15-yr trend (projected 2026), all practices
Rent as a share of corn gross, 202414.1%$117 non-irrigated rent 2024 ÷ (191.7 bu, 2024 county yield, all practices × $4.32 Indiana 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 15-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$6,514/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$4,831/ac
Census 2017$6,569/ac
Change 2017 to 2022−0.8%−0.2% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census valueCropland is 31% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield

200820102012201420162018202020222024143.0191.7median 160.7

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

15-yr trend (projected 2026)199.7 bu/acall practices county yields, 13 years, R² 0.24; the figure rent per bushel uses
2024 county yield191.7 bu/acall practices
2020-24 average177.9 bu/ac5 published years, high and low dropped
Median, 2008–2024160.7 bu/ac17 published years
Lowest published year2012: 44.7 bu/ac28% of median
Trend, 2008–2024+3.4 bu/ac a year±3.3 (95% interval)

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.

Claims paid per $100 of coverage, 2016–2025$8.03
Loss ratio, 2016–20250.61claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20250.72$9.9 million paid
Worst year2022ratio 0.19
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025excess moisture 55% · heat and drought 38% · price decline (revenue policies) 4%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

2000200520102015202020250110

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, 2000–202534 of 1,357 weeks3% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks201211 weeks
Last five years, 2021–20254 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202664.9 °F1991–2020 normal 63.9 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.04 °F a decadeno clear direction
Rain, April to September26.5 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 100% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger1.6 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 20221%
Drained by tile, 202220% of cropland4,017 ac
Farmed no-till, 202231% of cropland6,251 ac
Cover crops, 20223% of cropland566 ac
19861991199620012006201120162021741,942419

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

CRP enrolled, 2025419 ac2.3% of harvested cropland + CRP
CRP expiring FY2027–202942 ac10% of enrolled acres
CRP average rental payment, FY2025$138/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer
Solar and wind operating, 20251.1 MW solar · 0 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860
Cattle and calves, 20225,036−29.3% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202220%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Monroe County$149n/a$6,514160.7$8.03
Brown County$134n/a$7,090n/a$4.52
Greene County$197n/a$5,946n/a$7.81
Jackson County$196$200$6,958n/a$6.43
Lawrence County$179n/a$5,474n/a$5.42
Morgan County$190n/a$7,642179.8$1.43
Owen County$162n/a$5,396160.5$5.77
Median next door$185$200 1 co.$6,452170.2 2 co.$5.60

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. Monroe County, Indiana. Figures as of 2026-10-06, from USDA NASS, USDA RMA, USDA FSA, the U.S. Drought Monitor and NOAA. https://agsist.com/farmland-atlas/indiana/monroe-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.