Webster Parish, Louisiana
Webster Parish, LA: non-irrigated cash rent $22 an acre (2025); land and buildings $4,320 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 22119. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Non-irrigated cropland rents for $22 per acre in Webster Parish, up 209.9 percent from 2014 to 2025. Land and buildings carry a census value of $4,320 per acre, with the value up 47 percent from 2017 to 2022, or 8 percent a year. The July average nightly low has moved from 71.8 F under the 1991-2020 normal to 73.7 F over 2017-2026, and the trend since 1976 runs 0.68 F per decade, warming. Heat and drought drove 73 percent of crop insurance indemnities in 1991-2001, and their share of indemnities was 81 percent in 1989-1999 and 58 percent in 2000-2009. Only 3 percent of harvested cropland was irrigated as of the 2022 census.
too few 2025 county surveys in the state to compare
LA median $3,628 · 14th highest of 63
LA median 51% · 3rd 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 1991. Above the dashed line, the county's insurance book paid out more than it took in.
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 | Claims per $100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Webster Parish | $22 2025 | — | $4,320 | — |
| Columbia County, AR | $17 | — | $2,902 | — |
| Lafayette County, AR | $58 2025 | $174 | $2,940 | $18.64 |
| Bienville Parish | — | — | $3,628 | — |
| Bossier Parish | $38 | — | $3,746 | $35.95 |
| Claiborne Parish | $19 | — | $3,379 | — |
| Median next door | $19 | $174 1 co. | $3,379 | $27.30 2 co. |
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. Webster 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/webster-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.