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Morehouse Parish, Louisiana

Morehouse Parish, LA: non-irrigated cash rent $75 an acre (2026); land and buildings $3,492 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 178.3 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 22067. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in Morehouse Parish stands at $75 per acre in 2026, down 16.2 percent from 2016. Irrigated cash rent runs $150 per acre, and the irrigated multiple over non-irrigated rent has moved from 1.25 in 2009 to 2.00 in 2026, direction rising. Corn yields carry a fitted trend of 2.1 bushels per acre a year on published years 2008-2025, with a median of 178.3 bushels per acre and a worst year of 156 in 2008. Crop insurance history shows $303.7 million in indemnities from 1989-2025, with excess moisture and flood the largest cause at 65 percent, and a loss ratio of 1.32 over that span, rising to 1.47 in 2016-2025. Census land value sits at $3,492 per acre, up 9.8 percent from 2017 to 2022.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$75/ac
2026 county average
LA median $56 · 18th highest of 46
Cash rent, irrigated
$150/ac
2026 county average
LA median $134 · 8th highest of 21
Land and buildings
$3,492/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
LA median $3,628 · 27th lowest of 63
Corn yield, 2008–2025 median
178.3 bu/ac
recent level 2021–2025: 192.4 · irrigated and dryland combined
LA median 174.1 · 5th highest of 13
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$14.49
2016–2025, closed crop years
LA median $8.82 · 9th highest of 43
Farmland rented
68%
2022 census, rented from others
LA median 51% · 16th highest of 63

Cash rent

$0$50$100$1502010201520202025$87$75 dry$109$150 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$75/ac
Change 2016 to 2026−16.2%nominal, $90 to $75
Irrigated, 2026$150/ac
Pasture, 2026$37/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$3,492/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$2,367/ac
Census 2017$3,180/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+9.8%+1.9% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— about 44% of cropland is irrigated (USGS 2015 irrigated acres over 2022 harvested cropland), so dry rent over the all-land census value is not a yield on anything

Corn yield

200820102012201420162018202020222024156.0211.8median 178.3

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

Median, 2008–2025178.3 bu/ac18 published years, irrigated and dryland combined
Recent level, 2021–2025192.4 bu/ac5 published years, high and low dropped
Lowest published year2008: 156.0 bu/ac88% of median
Trend, 2008–2025+2.1 bu/ac a year±1.0 (95% interval)

Crop insurance record

199019952000200520102015202020252.515.581.911.00: 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$14.49
Loss ratio, 2016–20251.47claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20251.32$303.7 million paid
Years claims exceeded premium21 of 36
Worst year1991ratio 5.58
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025excess moisture 65% · heat and drought 19% · wind 7%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

20002005201020152020202524450

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, 2000–2025182 of 1,357 weeks13% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks201145 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202538 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202672.8 °F1991–2020 normal 71.8 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.38 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September25.7 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 112% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger1.8 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
Farmed no-till, 202210% of cropland21,418 ac
Cover crops, 20221% of cropland1,632 ac
1986199119962001200620112016202120813,6219,381

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

CRP enrolled, 20259,381 ac4.7% of harvested cropland + CRP
CRP expiring FY2026–2028371 ac4% of enrolled acres
CRP average rental payment, FY2025$117/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer
Solar and wind operating, 202598.1 MW solar · 0 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860
Cattle and calves, 20228,550
Farmland rented from others, 202268%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Morehouse Parish$75$150$3,492178.3$14.49
Ashley County, AR—$170$4,172187.8$8.90
Chicot County, AR$159$165$4,081179.4$7.75
Ouachita Parish$85$130 2023$4,018—$12.43
Richland Parish$80$148$3,401180.2$12.72
Union Parish$27—$3,928——
West Carroll Parish$98$176$3,030169.1$11.72
Median next door$85$168$3,973179.8$11.72

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. Morehouse 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/morehouse-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.
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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.