Farmland Atlas · county record

Concordia Parish, Louisiana

Concordia Parish, LA: non-irrigated cash rent $119 an acre (2026); land and buildings $3,245 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 169.5 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 22029. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Cash rent, non-irrigated
$119/ac
2026 county average
LA median $56 · 3rd highest of 46
Cash rent, irrigated
$185/ac
2026 county average
LA median $134 · highest of 21
Land and buildings
$3,245/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
LA median $3,628 · 23rd lowest of 63
Corn yield, 2008–2025 median
169.5 bu/ac
recent level 2021–2025: 187.9 · irrigated and dryland combined
LA median 174.1 · 5th lowest of 13
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$8.82
2016–2025, closed crop years
LA median $8.82 · 22nd lowest of 43
Farmland rented
56%
2022 census, rented from others
LA median 51% · 29th highest of 63

Cash rent

$0$50$100$150$2002010201520202025$73$119 dry$85$185 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$119/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+20.2%nominal, $99 to $119
Irrigated, 2026$185/ac
Pasture, 2023$20/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$3,245/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$2,308/ac
Census 2017$2,802/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+15.8%+3.0% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— about 24% of cropland is irrigated (2022 census), so dry rent over the all-land census value is not a yield on anything

Corn yield

200820102012201420162018202020222024134.0197.4median 169.5

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

Median, 2008–2025169.5 bu/ac17 published years, irrigated and dryland combined
Recent level, 2021–2025187.9 bu/ac4 published years, high and low dropped
Lowest published year2009: 121.0 bu/ac71% of median
Trend, 2008–2025+4.0 bu/ac a year±1.1 (95% interval)

Crop insurance record

19952000200520102015202020250.482.270.861.00: 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$8.82
Loss ratio, 2016–20250.93claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20250.80$112.8 million paid
Years claims exceeded premium7 of 31
Worst year2008ratio 2.27
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025excess moisture 49% · heat and drought 28% · wind 11%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

200020052010201520202025260

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, 2000–2025112 of 1,357 weeks8% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks200026 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202537 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202673.1 °F1991–2020 normal 72.3 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.34 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September27.1 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 110% 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, 202224%
Drained by tile, 20224% of cropland7,400 ac
Farmed no-till, 20226% of cropland11,789 ac
Cover crops, 20225% of cropland9,723 ac
19861991199620012006201120162021036,93435,329

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

CRP enrolled, 202535,329 ac15.8% of harvested cropland + CRP
CRP expiring FY2026–20281,691 ac5% of enrolled acres
CRP average rental payment, FY2025$149/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer
Cattle and calves, 20222,113
Farmland rented from others, 202256%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Concordia Parish$119$185$3,245169.5$8.82
Avoyelles Parish$115$155$3,193159.0$11.25
Catahoula Parish$88$147 2025$2,908174.1$11.89
Pointe Coupee Parish$85$182 2024$3,727179.3$6.62
Tensas Parish$104$175$2,843172.8$7.76
West Feliciana Parish$20—$3,197—$17.90
Adams County, MS$62 2023—$3,265—$25.25
Wilkinson County, MS$15—$2,905—$42.16
Median next door$86$165 2 co.$3,193173.5$11.89

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. Concordia 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/concordia-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.