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Iowa farmland values by county

Iowa: 99 counties, each with census land value, USDA cash rent, corn yield, crop insurance claims and drought weeks, from public records updated monthly. Click a heading to sort.

Cash rent: every published Iowa county rate side by side, with history back to 2008, irrigated and pasture shown apart: Iowa cash rent by county.

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Iowa at a glance

Median dry cash rent$266median of the 99 counties with a published 2026 non-irrigated rent, the same counties as the Iowa rent page
Median land and buildings, 2022 census$9,410median of 99 counties with 10,000+ farm acres, value not flagged
Median corn yield190.1median of 95 counties with 10,000+ farm acres, 15+ published years
Median claims per $100 of coverage$2.49median of 99 counties with 10,000+ farm acres
Iowa cropland, 2026 state survey$10,700/ac+3.9% from 2025 · USDA NASS Land Values, state average
Iowa farm real estate, 2026$10,100/acland and buildings, state average
Iowa pasture, 2026$3,800/acstate average
Farm bankruptcies (Chapter 12)11 filingsfamily farm and fishing cases filed, 12 months to Sep 30, 2026 · 18 in 2025, 7 in 2024 · Iowa's two federal court districts added together · U.S. Courts, Table F-2

Newer local survey: ISU Land Value Survey 2025, Iowa State University, released Dec 9, 2025: county land values, high, medium and low quality land. Their numbers, on their page; this page does not copy them.

Farm loans: what ag bankers report

Is farm credit getting tighter where you farm? Each quarter the Federal Reserve asks ag bankers how repayment and loan renewals compare with a year earlier. Iowa is in the Chicago Fed district (7th).

Chicago Fed district 7th · 2026 Q2

Tighter for borrowers than a year earlier.

Loan repayment rate73Under 100: more bankers said repayment rates fell than rose.
Renewals or extensions124Over 100: more bankers said renewals or extensions rose than fell.
Collateral required116Over 100: more bankers asked for more collateral than less.
20601001402010201420182022202673 repayment124 renewals

Source: Chicago Fed ag survey, 2026 Q2.

How this works

Each quarter, ag bankers in the district say whether each item was higher, lower or the same as a year earlier. The index is the percent saying higher, minus the percent saying lower, plus 100. Over 100 means more said higher; under 100, more said lower; 100 is an even split.

The numbers come from the Kansas City Fed's table of every district survey. Chicago and Dallas quarters are checked against those banks' own files; a quarter where the two disagree is left out rather than guessed, and shows as a gap in the chart, as does a quarter not reported. Left out where the two files disagree: Chicago: 2010 Q2, 2022 Q2, 2025 Q3.

Fed districts do not follow state lines: a split state shows each district that reports. Richmond and San Francisco have no reading in the table after 2021 Q4 and 2020 Q2, so they are not shown. Read 2026-10-28.

Map: every county is a link

Adair County: $237Adams County: $232Allamakee County: $252Appanoose County: $173Audubon County: $302Benton County: $303Black Hawk County: $257Boone County: $263Bremer County: $291Buchanan County: $293Buena Vista County: $260Butler County: $301Calhoun County: $267Carroll County: $305Cass County: $259Cedar County: $297Cerro Gordo County: $260Cherokee County: $301Chickasaw County: $284Clarke County: $167Clay County: $248Clayton County: $266Clinton County: $304Crawford County: $281Dallas County: $241Davis County: $182Decatur County: $167Delaware County: $298Des Moines County: $253Dickinson County: $247Dubuque County: $303Emmet County: $239Fayette County: $270Floyd County: $293Franklin County: $271Fremont County: $215Greene County: $268Grundy County: $322Guthrie County: $248Hamilton County: $301Hancock County: $265Hardin County: $280Harrison County: $255Henry County: $253Howard County: $283Humboldt County: $262Ida County: $291Iowa County: $269Jackson County: $275Jasper County: $264Jefferson County: $244Johnson County: $277Jones County: $279Keokuk County: $236Kossuth County: $282Lee County: $242Linn County: $258Louisa County: $242Lucas County: $176Lyon County: $284Madison County: $221Mahaska County: $244Marion County: $230Marshall County: $286Mills County: $258Mitchell County: $277Monona County: $272Monroe County: $174Montgomery County: $248Muscatine County: $288O'Brien County: $310Osceola County: $283Page County: $236Palo Alto County: $282Plymouth County: $288Pocahontas County: $269Polk County: $258Pottawattamie County: $255Poweshiek County: $278Ringgold County: $201Sac County: $290Scott County: $284Shelby County: $270Sioux County: $336Story County: $290Tama County: $257Taylor County: $228Union County: $266Van Buren County: $197Wapello County: $247Warren County: $218Washington County: $286Wayne County: $199Webster County: $275Winnebago County: $262Winneshiek County: $274Woodbury County: $288Worth County: $241Wright County: $267
$167–$241$241–$258$258–$274$274–$288$288–$336

Dry cash rent, 2026 survey. Five equal-count groups of the state's counties: each swatch shows the range it covers. Grey is a county with no figure. Land values flagged to read with care are left grey.

Every county

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueMedian corn yieldClaims per $100Drought weeks

Rent is dollars per acre, NASS county survey; an older year is shown beside the figure. Land value is the census of agriculture estimate; a star marks a value flagged to read with care. Corn yield is the median of published years. Claims per $100 of coverage are the last ten closed crop years. Drought weeks are the share of weeks since 2000 with half the county or more in D2 drought or worse. n/a means the source withheld the figure or the record does not carry it.

This product uses the NASS API but is not endorsed or certified by NASS. Averages, trends, ranks and estimates are calculations by AGSIST.