Farmland Atlas · county record

West Carroll Parish, Louisiana

West Carroll Parish, LA: non-irrigated cash rent $98 an acre (2026); land and buildings $3,030 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 169.1 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 22123. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Cash rent, non-irrigated

$98/ac

2026 county average
LA median $56 · 7th highest of 46

Cash rent, irrigated

$176/ac

2026 county average
LA median $134 · 3rd highest of 21

Land and buildings

$3,030/ac

2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
LA median $3,628 · 13th lowest of 63

Corn yield, 2008–2025 median

169.1 bu/ac

recent level 2021–2025: 186.9 · irrigated and dryland combined
LA median 174.1 · 4th lowest of 13

Claims paid per $100 of coverage

$11.72

2016–2025, closed crop years
LA median $8.82 · 17th highest of 43

Farmland rented

37%

2022 census, rented from others
LA median 51% · 23rd 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.

Non-irrigated, 2026$98/ac

Change 2016 to 2026+47.7%nominal, $66 to $98

Irrigated, 2026$176/ac

Pasture, 2026$42/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$3,030/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price

Census 2012$2,135/ac

Census 2017$3,296/ac

Change 2017 to 2022−8.1%−1.7% a year, nominal

Dry rent ÷ census value— about 38% 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

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

Median, 2008–2025169.1 bu/ac18 published years, irrigated and dryland combined

Recent level, 2021–2025186.9 bu/ac5 published years, high and low dropped

Lowest published year2011: 112.2 bu/ac66% of median

Trend, 2008–2025+3.1 bu/ac a year±1.6 (95% interval)

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$11.72

Loss ratio, 2016–20251.12claims ÷ total premium

Loss ratio, 1989–20250.92$85.0 million paid

Years claims exceeded premium10 of 30

Worst year2024ratio 1.83

Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025excess moisture 66% · heat and drought 21% · other 5%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, 2000–2025160 of 1,357 weeks12% of weeks

Year with the most D2+ weeks201027 weeks

Last five years, 2021–202541 weeks

July average of daily lows, 2017–202673.1 °F1991–2020 normal 72.2 °F

Trend in July lows since 1976+0.30 °F a decadewarming

Rain, April to September25.9 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 110% of it

Days with hail 1 inch or larger1.4 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

Drained by tile, 20221% of cropland681 ac

Farmed no-till, 202212% of cropland8,624 ac

Cover crops, 20222% of cropland1,472 ac

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

CRP enrolled, 202534,038 ac35.8% of harvested cropland + CRP

CRP expiring FY2026–20285,446 ac16% of enrolled acres

CRP average rental payment, FY2025$74/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer

Cattle and calves, 20225,156

Farmland rented from others, 202237%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

County	Dry rent	Irr. rent	Land value	Corn yield	Claims per $100
West Carroll Parish	$98	$176	$3,030	169.1	$11.72
Chicot County, AR	$159	$165	$4,081	179.4	$7.75
East Carroll Parish	$130	$183	$4,631	178.5	$6.19
Morehouse Parish	$75	$150	$3,492	178.3	$14.49
Richland Parish	$80	$148	$3,401	180.2	$12.72
Median next door	$105	$158	$3,787	179.0	$10.24

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. West Carroll 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/west-carroll-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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