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Harrison County, Kentucky

Harrison County, KY: non-irrigated cash rent $101 an acre (2026); land and buildings $4,169 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 163.6 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 21097. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Cash rent, non-irrigated
$101/ac
2026 county average
KY median $125 · 35th lowest of 86
Cash rent, irrigated
$300/ac
2014 county average
too few 2014 county surveys in the state to compare
Land and buildings
$4,169/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
KY median $4,449 · 46th lowest of 114
Corn yield, 2008–2023 median
163.6 bu/ac
recent level 2019–2023: 167.5
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$10.88
2016–2025, closed crop years
KY median $8.45 · 22nd highest of 86
Farmland rented
28%
2022 census, rented from others
KY median 25% · 47th highest of 115

Cash rent

$0$50$100$150$200$250$300$3502010201520202025$58$101 dry$275$300 irrigated

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, 2026$101/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+34.7%nominal, $75 to $101
Irrigated, 2014$300/ac
Pasture, 2026$29/ac
Dry rent per bushel of corn$0.60$101 ÷ 167.5 bu, county yield 2019–2023

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$4,169/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$2,730/ac
Census 2017$3,100/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+34.5%+6.1% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 41% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield

20082010201220142016201820202022104.0166.0136.5147.856.4168.0168.3170.3173.7160.0161.2195.8median 163.6

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

Median, 2008–2023163.6 bu/ac12 published years
Recent level, 2019–2023167.5 bu/ac4 published years, high and low dropped
Lowest published year2012: 56.4 bu/ac35% of median
Trend, 2008–2023+3.7 bu/ac a year±4.1 (95% interval)

Crop insurance record

20142019202420251.160.350.231.280.721.00: claims equal premium

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$10.88
Loss ratio, 2016–20250.73claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20251.02$18.8 million paid
Worst year2024ratio 1.28
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025heat and drought 47% · excess moisture 42% · freeze 3%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

2000200520102015202020250190

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, 2000–202537 of 1,357 weeks3% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks200719 weeks
Last five years, 2021–20254 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202666.2 °F1991–2020 normal 64.9 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.46 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September26.5 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 104% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.4 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 20223%
Drained by tile, 20221% of cropland666 ac
Farmed no-till, 202213% of cropland8,650 ac
Cover crops, 20225% of cropland3,487 ac
19861991199620012006201120162021034147

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

CRP enrolled, 202547 ac
CRP expiring FY2026–202833 ac
Solar and wind operating, 2025100 MW solar · 0 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860
Cattle and calves, 202229,986−10.8% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202228%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Harrison County$101$4,169—$10.88
Bourbon County$105$7,039—$9.59
Bracken County$71$3,229—$10.41
Grant County$76$5,003——
Nicholas County$120 2025$4,706—$27.70
Pendleton County$50$4,055—$10.03
Robertson County$75 2025$3,643——
Scott County$110$6,387155.0$9.03
Median next door$76$4,706155.0 1 co.$10.03

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. Harrison 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/harrison-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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