County farm facts

St. Martin Parish, Louisiana

St. Martin Parish, LA: non-irrigated cash rent $73 an acre (2026); land and buildings $3,630 an acre in the 2022 census. Bids, weather, crops, land and programs for one county. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 22099. Figures as of Oct 19, 2026; the rows marked with a date load the newest reading when the page opens.

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Cash rent, non-irrigated
$73/ac
2026 county average
LA median $56 · 20th highest of 46
Cash rent, irrigated
$95/ac
2025 county average
too few 2025 county surveys in the state to compare
Land and buildings
$3,630/ac
2022: operators' own estimate of what land and buildings were worth · LA farm real estate 2026: $3,950 (land and buildings, state survey)
LA median $3,628 · 31st highest of 63
Corn yield
n/a
fewer than 8 published county corn yields
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$7.87
2016–2025, closed crop years
LA median $8.82 · 18th lowest of 43
Farmland rented
77%
2022 census, rented from others
LA median 51% · 8th highest of 63
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Grain and prices within 50 miles

Corn bid
Soybean bid
Corn basis
Soybean basis
Corn futures
Soybean futures
Feeder cattle futures

Bids are posted elevator prices within 50 miles of the county middle, or of your own field or saved place in this county when this device has one (each row says which), best and nearest, never a buyer's name. Not a contract; call before you haul. Livestock lines show where the 2022 Census counts 1,000 head or more: milk for milk cows, feeder cattle for beef cows, live cattle for cattle on feed, hogs for hogs, hay for all cattle.

Louisiana cash bids by town · Bids from your own ZIP or farm, in Fast Facts

Nearby buyers within 50 miles: 1 export elevator
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Straight-line miles from the middle of St. Martin Parish to each buyer’s town point (the middle of its town, not the gate), rounded. Capacity as published. Where the buyers are, not what they pay. Lists from port and terminal pages, read Oct 28, 2026.

Weather and the season

Rain since Jan 1
Drought this week
Hail, last 30 days

Rain so far this year in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana

Drought, year by year

200020052010201520202025390

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, 2000–2025109 of 1,357 weeks8% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks200039 weeks
Last five full years, 2021–202535 weeks
2026 so far0 weekshalf the county or more in D2, 40 weekly maps
July average of daily lows, 2017–202674.7 °F1991–2020 normal 73.7 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.50 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September, usual34.4 in1991–2020 county normal, NOAA; the 2017–2026 seasons averaged 37.4 in
Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.6 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail
Corn growing degree days, May to September4,285middle of 1996–2025; 2016–2025 averaged 4,365

Crops

Corn harvested
Soybeans harvested

Corn yield

County corn yieldFewer than 8 published county corn yields

Land rent, value, sales

Cash rent

$0$20$40$60$80$1002010201520202025$42$73 dry$50$95 irrigated

Dollars per acre, USDA NASS county survey. A break in a line is a year with no published survey.

Every published Louisiana county rate, side by side: Louisiana cash rent by county.

Non-irrigated, 2026$73/ac
Change 2016 to 2026−3.3%nominal, $75 to $73
Irrigated, 2025$95/ac
Pasture, 2026$31/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$3,630/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$2,473/ac
Census 2017$3,205/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+13.3%+2.5% a year, nominal
Dry cropland rent ÷ census value, 20222.33%$85 ÷ $3,630; cropland 78% of land in farms
Louisiana cropland, 2026 state survey$3,660/ac+2.5% from 2025 · USDA NASS Land Values, state average
Louisiana farm real estate, 2026$3,950/acland and buildings, state average
Louisiana pasture, 2026$3,600/acstate average

The census value is this county's, from 2022. The survey figures are the Louisiana average for 2026, from the USDA NASS Land Values report. NASS publishes that survey by state, not by county, so this page does not scale one into the other.

Programs and risk

ARC or PLC sign-up

Benchmarks, payments and the choice for each crop: ARC or PLC in St. Martin Parish.

Insuring pasture or hay? PRF rainfall insurance for pasture and hay in St. Martin Parish: its grids, county values and record are on the county PRF page.

Crop insurance record

20220.760.602.690.261.00: claims equal premium

Claims paid divided by total premium (the farmer share plus the federal subsidy), each closed crop year since 2022 with at least $1,000,000 of premium; a year under that has no bar and no ratio. 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$7.87
Loss ratio, 2016–20251.24claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20250.92$21.3 million paid
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025wind 37% · excess moisture 31% · heat and drought 15%share of dollars paid

Conservation Reserve Program

1986199119962001200620112016202104541

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

CRP enrolled, 202541 ac
CRP expiring FY2027–20290 ac0% of enrolled acres

What farms here look like

Harvested cropland irrigated, 20229%
Drained by tile, 20222% of cropland1,268 ac
Farmed no-till, 20229% of cropland7,564 ac
Cover crops, 2022under 1% of cropland316 ac
Cattle and calves, 20223,141+14.5% since 2017
Beef cows, 20221,844head, Census of Agriculture
Hogs and pigs, 202283head, Census of Agriculture
Farmland rented from others, 202277%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

USDA Census of Agriculture 2022, except wells (state well register) and power (EIA Form 860).

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Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueCorn yield, medianClaims per $100
St. Martin Parish$73$95 2025$3,630n/a$7.87
Assumption Parishn/an/a$3,251n/a$4.98
Iberia Parish$94$69 2025$3,624n/a$4.47
Iberville Parish$32n/a$2,562n/a$5.83
Lafayette Parish$74$99$8,291n/a$7.37
Pointe Coupee Parish$85$182 2024$3,727179.3$6.62
St. Landry Parish$89$90$3,540167.4$12.35
St. Mary Parish$81n/a$3,498n/a$4.25
Median next door$83$94 2 co.$3,540173.4 2 co.$5.83

Counties that share a stretch of boundary. A rent from an older survey year carries its year and stays out of the median; one more than three survey years old shows n/a. The corn median here needs 15 published years, so a county with fewer shows n/a even where its own page gives a median.

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AGSIST Farmland Atlas. St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. Figures as of Oct 19, 2026, from USDA NASS, USDA RMA, USDA FSA, the U.S. Drought Monitor and NOAA. https://agsist.com/farmland-atlas/louisiana/st-martin-parish
Every figure is a county average from the sources named below. Rent ranks count every county with a published rent in the same survey year, within the state (the same counties as the state rent page); other ranks count counties with 10,000 acres or more in farms. 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.

This product uses the NASS API but is not endorsed or certified by NASS. Averages, trends, ranks and estimates are calculations by AGSIST.

Rent: USDA NASS Cash Rents Survey, county. Land value: Census of Agriculture, operators' estimate of land and buildings. Yield: NASS county corn yields. The headline trend, the one rent per bushel uses, is fitted here over the published years in the 15 years ending this year; the yearly trend card uses 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. Claims paid per $100 of coverage: claims divided by liability (the insured value), times 100, same source. 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 missing figure is named with its reason (in a table it reads n/a).