Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana
Pointe Coupee Parish, LA: non-irrigated cash rent $85 an acre (2026); land and buildings $3,727 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 179.3 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 22077. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Non-irrigated cash rent in Pointe Coupee Parish averages $84 per acre in 2026, up 20.7 percent from 2016. Irrigated cash rent in 2024 runs $182 per acre, though only 9 percent of harvested cropland is irrigated as of the 2022 census, and all of that water comes from groundwater. Corn yields show a fitted trend of 1.1 bushels per acre a year over 2008-2025, with a median of 179.3 bushels per acre and a worst year of 149.6 in 2011. Crop insurance indemnities from 1989-2025 total $73.7 million, driven mostly by excess moisture and flood at 39 percent; the loss ratio over 2016-2025 was 1.05, higher than the 0.85 ratio for the full 1989-2025 period. Census land value reached $3,727 per acre in 2022, up 20.6 percent from 2017.
LA median $56 · tied for 12th highest of 46
too few 2024 county surveys in the state to compare
LA median $3,628 · 29th highest of 63
LA median 174.1 · 3rd highest of 13
LA median $8.82 · 11th lowest of 43
LA median 51% · 18th highest 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
Bushels per acre, USDA NASS county yields, all practices. The dashed line is the median of the published years.
Crop insurance record
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.
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 | Irr. rent | Land value | Corn yield | Claims per $100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pointe Coupee Parish | $85 | $182 2024 | $3,727 | 179.3 | $6.62 |
| Avoyelles Parish | $115 | $155 | $3,193 | 159.0 | $11.25 |
| Concordia Parish | $119 | $185 | $3,245 | 169.5 | $8.82 |
| Iberville Parish | $32 | — | $2,562 | — | $5.83 |
| St. Landry Parish | $89 | $90 | $3,540 | 167.4 | $12.35 |
| St. Martin Parish | $73 | $95 2025 | $3,630 | — | $7.87 |
| West Baton Rouge Parish | $67 2023 | — | $4,693 | — | $1.93 |
| West Feliciana Parish | $20 | — | $3,197 | — | $17.90 |
| Median next door | $81 | $155 | $3,245 | 167.4 | $8.82 |
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. Pointe Coupee 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/pointe-coupee-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.