Boyd County, Kentucky
Boyd County, KY: non-irrigated cash rent $38 an acre (2024); land and buildings $3,181 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 21019. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Non-irrigated cash rent in Boyd County averages $38 per acre in 2024, up 31 percent from 2013. Census land and buildings values stand at $3,181 per acre, up 32.3 percent from 2017 to 2022, or 5.8 percent a year. Crop insurance paid $119,641 in indemnities across 1995-2019, with excess moisture and flood the largest cause at 77 percent. Drought has been a small factor: severe drought or worse covered 3.6 percent of weeks from 2000-2025, with 7 weeks from 2021-2025. July nights are warming, up from a 1991-2020 normal of 64.3 F to 66.3 F in 2017-2026, a trend of 0.56 F per decade. No solar or wind capacity operates or is proposed here.
too few 2024 county surveys in the state to compare
KY median $4,449 · 22nd lowest of 114
KY median 25% · 2nd 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.
Land value
Corn yield
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 | Claims per $100 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boyd County | $38 2024 | $3,181 | — |
| Carter County | $28 2025 | $3,064 | — |
| Greenup County | $43 | $3,615 | $15.41 |
| Lawrence County | $44 2025 | $2,800 | — |
| Lawrence County, OH | $51 | $3,357 | $8.89 |
| Wayne County, WV | $31 2025 | $2,644 | — |
| Median next door | $47 2 co. | $3,064 | $12.15 2 co. |
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. Boyd 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/boyd-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.