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Bath County, Kentucky

Bath County, KY: non-irrigated cash rent $96 an acre (2023); land and buildings $3,111 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 139.5 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 21011. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in Bath County is $96 per acre in 2023, up 2.1 percent from 2013. Land value came in at $3,111 per acre in 2022, up 31.8 percent from 2017, 5.7 percent a year. Irrigation is 0 percent of harvested cropland, and drought weeks stayed low, 1 week from 2021-2025 against 49 of 1357 weeks from 2000-2025. Solar and wind operating and proposed are 0 MW.

Cash rent, non-irrigated

$96/ac

2023 county average
too few 2023 county surveys in the state to compare

Land and buildings

$3,111/ac

2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
KY median $4,449 · 19th lowest of 114

Rent as % of land value

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not shown: cropland is 39% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield, 2008–2025 median

139.5 bu/ac

15 published years
KY median 161.4 · 2nd lowest of 50

Claims paid per $100 of coverage

$11.14

2016–2025, closed crop years
KY median $8.45 · 20th highest of 86

Farmland rented

13%

2022 census, rented from others
KY median 25% · 15th lowest of 115

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.

Non-irrigated, 2023$96/ac

Change 2013 to 2023+2.1%nominal, $94 to $96

Pasture, 2025$22/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$3,111/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price

Census 2012$1,951/ac

Census 2017$2,360/ac

Change 2017 to 2022+31.8%+5.7% a year, nominal

Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 39% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield

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

Median, 2008–2025139.5 bu/ac15 published years

Lowest published year2012: 85.5 bu/ac61% of median

Trend, 2008–2025+4.5 bu/ac a year±2.1 (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$11.14

Loss ratio, 2016–20250.59claims ÷ total premium

Loss ratio, 1989–20251.30$14.9 million paid

Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025excess moisture 41% · heat and drought 37% · hail 9%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

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, 2000–202549 of 1,357 weeks4% of weeks

Year with the most D2+ weeks200717 weeks

Last five years, 2021–20251 weeks

July average of daily lows, 2017–202665.3 °F1991–2020 normal 64.2 °F

Trend in July lows since 1976+0.34 °F a decadeno clear direction

Rain, April to September27.1 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 112% of it

Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.9 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 20220%

Drained by tile, 20222% of cropland759 ac

Farmed no-till, 202217% of cropland8,260 ac

Cover crops, 20223% of cropland1,490 ac

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

CRP enrolled, 202556 ac

CRP expiring FY2026–202856 ac

Cattle and calves, 202226,239−13.6% since 2017

Farmland rented from others, 202213%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

County	Dry rent	Land value	Corn yield	Claims per $100
Bath County	$96 2023	$3,111	139.5	$11.14
Fleming County	$132	$3,780	139.6	$13.94
Menifee County	$41 2023	$2,876	—	—
Montgomery County	$60	$4,254	—	$11.94
Nicholas County	$120 2025	$4,706	—	$27.70
Rowan County	$43 2024	$6,055	—	$20.21
Median next door	$96 2 co.	$4,254	139.6 1 co.	$17.08

Counties that share a stretch of boundary. An older rent carries its year and stays out of the median.

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AGSIST Farmland Atlas. Bath County, Kentucky. 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/kentucky/bath-county

Every 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.

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