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Kentucky farmland values by county

Name: Kentucky county farmland record
Creator: AGSIST
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Kentucky: 120 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 Kentucky county rate side by side, with history back to 2008, irrigated and pasture shown apart: Kentucky cash rent by county.

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Kentucky at a glance

Median dry cash rent$125median of the 86 counties with a published 2026 non-irrigated rent, the same counties as the Kentucky rent page

Median land and buildings, 2022 census$4,449median of 114 counties with 10,000+ farm acres, value not flagged

Median corn yield161.4median of 50 counties with 10,000+ farm acres, 15+ published years

Median claims per $100 of coverage$8.45median of 86 counties with 10,000+ farm acres

Kentucky cropland, 2026 state survey$6,630/ac+2.8% from 2025 · USDA NASS Land Values, state average

Kentucky farm real estate, 2026$5,600/acland and buildings, state average

Kentucky pasture, 2026$4,050/acstate average

Farm bankruptcies (Chapter 12)3 filingsfamily farm and fishing cases filed, 12 months to Sep 30, 2026 · 0 in 2025, 2 in 2024 · Kentucky's two federal court districts added together · U.S. Courts, Table F-2

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. Parts of Kentucky are in the St. Louis and Cleveland Fed districts. The Cleveland district has no farm credit survey in the Kansas City Fed's table, so only St. Louis is shown.

St. Louis Fed district 8th · 2026 Q2

Tighter for borrowers than a year earlier.

Loan repayment rate66.67Under 100: more bankers said repayment rates fell than rose.

Renewals or extensions126.19Over 100: more bankers said renewals or extensions rose than fell.

Collateral required138.1Over 100: more bankers asked for more collateral than less.

Source: St. Louis 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.

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

Color by

$17–$70$70–$101$101–$142$142–$174$174–$259

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

County	Dry rent	Irr. rent	Land value	Median corn yield	Claims per $100	Drought 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.