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Acadia Parish, Louisiana

Acadia Parish, LA: non-irrigated cash rent $54 an acre (2026); land and buildings $3,046 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 22001. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in Acadia Parish runs $54 per acre in 2026, up 67.2 percent from 2016. Irrigated land rents at $88 per acre, a multiple of 1.64 over non-irrigated in 2026, against 1.31 in 2009, with no clear direction in that multiple over time. Seventy percent of harvested cropland is irrigated, and 70 percent of that irrigation water comes from groundwater. Crop insurance losses since 1989 total $48.3 million, with excess moisture and flood the largest cause at 58 percent; heat and drought shares moved 12 percent, 21 percent, 10 percent, then 23 percent across the four listed periods. Land value reached $3,046 per acre in 2022, up 10.3 percent from 2017.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$54/ac
2026 county average
LA median $56 · 23rd lowest of 46
Cash rent, irrigated
$88/ac
2026 county average
LA median $134 · 6th lowest of 21
Land and buildings
$3,046/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
LA median $3,628 · 14th lowest of 63
Corn yield, median
—
fewer than 8 published county corn yields
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$4.93
2016–2025, closed crop years
LA median $8.82 · 4th lowest of 43
Farmland rented
72%
2022 census, rented from others
LA median 51% · 12th highest of 63

Cash rent

$0$20$40$60$802010201520202025$48$54 dry$77$88 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$54/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+67.2%nominal, $32 to $54
Irrigated, 2026$88/ac
Pasture, 2026$21/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$3,046/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$2,219/ac
Census 2017$2,762/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+10.3%+2.0% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— about 70% of cropland is irrigated (2022 census), so dry rent over the all-land census value is not a yield on anything

Corn yield

County corn yield— fewer than 8 published county corn yields

Crop insurance record

20082013201820230.292.290.311.00: 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$4.93
Loss ratio, 2016–20250.68claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20250.72$48.3 million paid
Years claims exceeded premium6 of 18
Worst year2020ratio 2.29
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025excess moisture 58% · heat and drought 17% · other 11%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

200020052010201520202025442

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, 2000–2025159 of 1,357 weeks12% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks200044 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202557 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202674.8 °F1991–2020 normal 73.7 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.48 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September33.0 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 114% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.8 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 202270%
Drained by tile, 20223% of cropland6,346 ac
Farmed no-till, 202211% of cropland20,033 ac
Cover crops, 20222% of cropland3,464 ac
198619911996200120062011201620211417080

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac
Cattle and calves, 202210,726
Farmland rented from others, 202272%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Acadia Parish$54$88$3,046—$4.93
Evangeline Parish$44$90$3,186—$7.13
Jefferson Davis Parish$18$71$2,980—$8.14
Lafayette Parish$74$99$8,291—$7.37
St. Landry Parish$89$90$3,540167.4$12.35
Vermilion Parish$87$86$2,876—$13.78
Median next door$74$90$3,186167.4 1 co.$8.14

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. Acadia Parish, Louisiana. 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/louisiana/acadia-parish
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.