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Livingston County, Kentucky

Livingston County, KY: non-irrigated cash rent $168 an acre (2026); land and buildings $4,592 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 144.6 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 21139. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in Livingston County runs $168 per acre for 2026, up 40 percent from 2016. Census land value stood at $4,592 per acre in 2022, and rent equals 3.35 percent of that value. Corn yield has trended up 3 bushels per acre a year on published years 2008-2025, with a median of 144.6 bushels per acre and a worst year of 29.2 in 2012. Solar and wind operating capacity are both 0 MW.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$168/ac
2026 county average
KY median $125 · tied for 22nd highest of 86
Land and buildings
$4,592/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
KY median $4,449 · 53rd highest of 114
Rent as % of land value
3.35%
$154 dry rent ÷ $4,592 land and buildings, both 2022
Corn yield, 2008–2025 median
144.6 bu/ac
recent level 2021–2025: 151.1
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$9.53
2016–2025, closed crop years
KY median $8.45 · 33rd highest of 86
Farmland rented
46%
2022 census, rented from others
KY median 25% · 10th highest of 115

Cash rent

$0$50$100$1502010201520202025$70$168 dry

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$168/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+40.0%nominal, $120 to $168
Pasture, 2026$46/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$4,592/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$2,128/ac
Census 2017$2,812/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+63.3%+10.3% a year, nominal
Dry cropland rent ÷ census value, 20223.35%$154 ÷ $4,592; cropland 53% of land in farms

Corn yield

200820102012201420162018202020222024143.0176.9134.8median 144.6

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

Median, 2008–2025144.6 bu/ac14 published years
Recent level, 2021–2025151.1 bu/ac4 published years, high and low dropped
Lowest published year2012: 29.2 bu/ac20% of median
Trend, 2008–2025+3.0 bu/ac a year±3.8 (95% interval)

Crop insurance record

20082013201820230.644.811.561.00: 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$9.53
Loss ratio, 2016–20250.64claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20250.91$42.8 million paid
Years claims exceeded premium5 of 18
Worst year2012ratio 4.81
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025excess moisture 49% · heat and drought 44% · price decline (revenue policies) 2%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

2000200520102015202020250201

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, 2000–202557 of 1,357 weeks4% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks201220 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202510 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202670.0 °F1991–2020 normal 68.9 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.34 °F a decadeno clear direction
Rain, April to September25.4 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 104% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.7 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 2022— NASS suppressed the irrigated acres to protect individual farms
Drained by tile, 20222% of cropland1,834 ac
Farmed no-till, 202238% of cropland29,077 ac
Cover crops, 20224% of cropland3,201 ac
198619911996200120062011201620211,87817,8772,787

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

CRP enrolled, 20252,787 ac4.3% of harvested cropland + CRP
CRP expiring FY2026–2028332 ac12% of enrolled acres
CRP average rental payment, FY2025$134/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer
Cattle and calves, 202213,864−12.7% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202246%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Livingston County$168—$4,592—$9.53
Hardin County, IL——$4,632—$14.84
Massac County, IL$121 2025$203 2024$4,582—$7.58
Pope County, IL$92 2025—$4,224—$10.13
Crittenden County$168—$3,369160.5$7.12
Lyon County$144 2025—$4,987—$5.50
Marshall County$131—$5,272—$6.60
McCracken County$140—$5,673—$6.35
Median next door$140—$4,632160.5 1 co.$7.12

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. Livingston 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/livingston-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.
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"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.