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Ohio County, Indiana

Ohio County, IN: non-irrigated cash rent $90 an acre (2025); land and buildings $6,126 an acre in the 2022 census; corn 15-yr trend 138.9 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 18115. Figures as of 2026-10-06.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$90/ac
2025 county average
too few 2025 county surveys in the state to compare
Land and buildings
$6,126/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
IN median $8,158 · 11th lowest of 89
Dry rent per bushel of corn
$0.65
$90 ÷ 138.9 bu, 15-yr trend (projected 2026)
Corn yield, 15-yr trend (projected 2026)
138.9 bu/ac
all practices trend · 2024 county yield 139.6 · 2020-24 average 147.9 (all practices)
IN median 213.9 · lowest of 60
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$4.77
2016–2025, closed crop years
IN median $2.54 · 18th highest of 92
Farmland rented
29%
2022 census, rented from others
IN median 51% · 9th lowest of 92
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In Ohio County, non-irrigated cash rent is $90 per acre, against a census land value of $6,126 per acre in 2022. Land value rose 40.2 percent from 2017-2022, 7 percent a year. Cropland here is not irrigated; the 2022 census found 0 percent of harvested cropland irrigated. Heat and drought is the largest cause of crop insurance indemnities from 1989-2025 at 45 percent, though its share by period moved 49 percent, 41 percent, 50 percent, then 33 percent, not a steady climb. July nights have warmed: the 1991-2020 normal low is 65.2 F, the 2017-2026 average is 67.4 F, and the trend since 1976 is 0.56 F per decade. Solar and wind operating capacity is 0 MW.

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Cash rent

$0$20$40$60$80$100$12020212022202320242025$100$90 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, 2025$90/ac
Dry rent per bushel of corn$0.65$90 ÷ 138.9 bu, 15-yr trend (projected 2026), all practices
Rent as a share of corn gross, 202416.7%$101 non-irrigated rent 2024 ÷ (139.6 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$6,126/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$3,560/ac
Census 2017$4,368/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+40.2%+7.0% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census valueCropland is 45% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield

200820102012201420162018202020222024131.0182.8139.6median 150.0

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

15-yr trend (projected 2026)138.9 bu/acall practices county yields, 10 years, R² 0.28; the figure rent per bushel uses
2024 county yield139.6 bu/acall practices
2020-24 average147.9 bu/ac4 published years, high and low dropped
Median, 2008–2024150.0 bu/ac13 published years
Lowest published year2011: 97.0 bu/ac65% of median
Trend, 2008–2024+1.9 bu/ac a year±3.0 (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$4.77
Loss ratio, 2016–20250.47claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20250.71$3.5 million paid
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025heat and drought 45% · excess moisture 42% · other 8%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

2000200520102015202020250100

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, 2000–202533 of 1,357 weeks2% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks201010 weeks
Last five years, 2021–20252 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202667.4 °F1991–2020 normal 65.2 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.56 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September25.7 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 106% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.1 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 2022none reported
Farmed no-till, 202243% of cropland3,176 ac
Cover crops, 20222% of cropland112 ac
19861991199620012006201120162021413660

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac
CRP expiring FY2027–20290 ac
Cattle and calves, 20221,605−30.0% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202229%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Ohio County$90 2025$6,126n/a$4.77
Dearborn County$147$6,735160.6$10.02
Ripley County$174$6,590168.6$8.05
Switzerland County$134$7,606158.2$6.70
Boone County, KY$45$8,920145.1$8.74
Median next door$141$7,171159.4$8.40

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. Ohio 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/ohio-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.