Davis County, Iowa
Davis County, IA: non-irrigated cash rent $182 an acre (2026); land and buildings $5,154 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 152.5 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 19051. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Non-irrigated cash rent in Davis County runs $182 per acre, up 19.7 percent from 2016 to 2026. The census value of land and buildings stood at $5,154 per acre in 2022, after a 31.6 percent rise from 2017 to 2022. Heat and drought drove 55 percent of the county's crop insurance indemnities over 1989-2025, and that cause's share moved from 14 percent in 1989-1999, to 15 percent in 2000-2009, to 66 percent in 2010-2019, to 65 percent in 2020-2025. The corn yield trend on published years 2008-2025 runs 4.5 bushels per acre a year, against a worst year of 52.4 in 2012. Drought weeks ran 167 of 1357 county-weeks from 2000-2025, with 42 of those weeks falling in 2021-2025. No cropland acres were irrigated as of the 2022 census.
IA median $266 · 6th lowest of 99
IA median $9,410 · 2nd lowest of 99
IA median 190.1 · lowest of 95
IA median $2.49 · 5th highest of 99
IA median 51% · 2nd lowest of 99
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 | Land value | Corn yield | Claims per $100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davis County | $182 | $5,154 | 152.5 | $5.02 |
| Appanoose County | $173 | $4,927 | 153.0 | $5.03 |
| Van Buren County | $197 | $5,451 | 152.7 | $4.29 |
| Wapello County | $247 | $6,657 | 164.9 | $2.79 |
| Schuyler County, MO | $97 | $4,152 | — | $6.49 |
| Scotland County, MO | $175 | $5,438 | — | $3.78 |
| Median next door | $175 | $5,438 | 153.0 | $4.29 |
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. Davis County, Iowa. 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/iowa/davis-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.