East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
East Baton Rouge Parish, LA: non-irrigated cash rent $18 an acre (2026); land and buildings $8,027 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 22033. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Non-irrigated cash rent here runs $18 per acre, up 56.5 percent from 2016 to 2026. Land and buildings value came in at $8,027 per acre in the census year 2022, down 2.7 percent from 2017 to 2022. July nights average 74 F over 2017-2026, against a 1991-2020 normal of 72.7 F, with a warming trend of 0.57 F per decade since 1976. Drought weeks were 111 of 1357 from 2000-2025, with 42 of those weeks falling in 2021-2025, and heat and drought's share of indemnities moved 14 percent in 1989-1999, 0 percent in 2010-2019, and 21 percent in 2020-2025.
LA median $56 · tied for 2nd lowest of 46
LA median $3,628 · 3rd highest of 63
LA median 51% · 13th lowest of 63
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 1990. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Baton Rouge Parish | $18 | $8,027 | — |
| Ascension Parish | — | $5,985 | $7.33 |
| East Feliciana Parish | $22 | $4,244 | — |
| Iberville Parish | $32 | $2,562 | $5.83 |
| Livingston Parish | — | $6,940 | — |
| St. Helena Parish | $24 | $4,232 | — |
| West Baton Rouge Parish | $67 2023 | $4,693 | $1.93 |
| Median next door | $24 | $4,469 | $5.83 |
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. East Baton Rouge 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/east-baton-rouge-parishEvery 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.