Farmland Atlas · county record

Vermilion Parish, Louisiana

Vermilion Parish, LA: non-irrigated cash rent $87 an acre (2026); land and buildings $2,876 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 22113. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Cash rent, non-irrigated

$87/ac

2026 county average
LA median $56 · 11th highest of 46

Cash rent, irrigated

$86/ac

2026 county average
LA median $134 · 5th lowest of 21

Land and buildings

$2,876/ac

2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
LA median $3,628 · 9th lowest of 63

Corn yield, median

—

fewer than 8 published county corn yields

Claims paid per $100 of coverage

$13.78

2016–2025, closed crop years
LA median $8.82 · 11th highest of 43

Farmland rented

73%

2022 census, rented from others
LA median 51% · 10th 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.

Non-irrigated, 2026$87/ac

Change 2016 to 2026+38.1%nominal, $63 to $87

Irrigated, 2026$86/ac

Pasture, 2026$25/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$2,876/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price

Census 2012$2,599/ac

Census 2017$2,877/ac

Change 2017 to 20220.0%0.0% a year, nominal

Dry rent ÷ census value— about 53% of cropland is irrigated (2022 census), so dry rent over the all-land census value is not a yield on anything

Corn yield

County corn yield— fewer than 8 published county corn yields

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.

Claims paid per $100 of coverage, 2016–2025$13.78

Loss ratio, 2016–20251.73claims ÷ total premium

Loss ratio, 1989–20251.54$115.3 million paid

Years claims exceeded premium10 of 16

Worst year2021ratio 3.32

Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025wind 30% · excess moisture 29% · heat and drought 16%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

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, 2000–2025144 of 1,357 weeks11% of weeks

Year with the most D2+ weeks200039 weeks

Last five years, 2021–202542 weeks

July average of daily lows, 2017–202675.8 °F1991–2020 normal 74.7 °F

Trend in July lows since 1976+0.54 °F a decadewarming

Rain, April to September35.1 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 111% of it

Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.4 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 202253%

Drained by tile, 20222% of cropland3,594 ac

Farmed no-till, 202212% of cropland22,412 ac

Cover crops, 20221% of cropland1,921 ac

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac

Cattle and calves, 202223,326

Farmland rented from others, 202273%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

County	Dry rent	Irr. rent	Land value	Claims per $100
Vermilion Parish	$87	$86	$2,876	$13.78
Acadia Parish	$54	$88	$3,046	$4.93
Cameron Parish	$12 2024	$84	$2,737	$28.19
Iberia Parish	$94	$69 2025	$3,624	$4.47
Jefferson Davis Parish	$18	$71	$2,980	$8.14
Lafayette Parish	$74	$99	$8,291	$7.37
Median next door	$64	$86	$3,046	$7.37

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. Vermilion 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/vermilion-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.

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