Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota
Yellow Medicine County, MN: non-irrigated cash rent $230 an acre (2025); land and buildings $7,062 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 174.0 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 27173. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Non-irrigated cash rent in Yellow Medicine County averages $230 per acre in 2025, up 13.3 percent from 2014. The census value of land and buildings was $7,062 per acre in 2022, after a change of 30.6 percent from 2017 to 2022, or 5.5 percent a year. Rent equals 2.82 percent of that census value. Corn yields show a fitted trend of 2.2 bushels per acre a year on published years 2008-2023, with a median of 174 bushels per acre and a worst year of 143 in 2008. No cropland here is irrigated, and crop insurance indemnities since 1989 total $225.8 million, with excess moisture and flood the largest cause at 41 percent.
too few 2025 county surveys in the state to compare
MN median $6,372 · 36th highest of 84
MN median 180.7 · 22nd lowest of 64
MN median $4.92 · 41st highest of 82
MN median 47% · 27th highest of 84
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow Medicine County | $230 2025 | — | $7,062 | 174.0 | $4.93 |
| Chippewa County | $212 | — | $7,742 | 184.6 | $5.77 |
| Lac qui Parle County | $215 | $183 2025 | $6,362 | 177.3 | $4.10 |
| Lincoln County | $223 | — | $6,365 | 161.9 | $6.12 |
| Lyon County | $230 | — | $7,146 | 172.2 | $5.87 |
| Redwood County | $251 2025 | — | $8,408 | 176.0 | $5.08 |
| Renville County | $268 | — | $8,138 | 185.1 | $4.68 |
| Deuel County, SD | $181 | — | $5,470 | — | $4.01 |
| Median next door | $219 | — | $7,146 | 176.7 | $5.08 |
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. Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. 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/minnesota/yellow-medicine-countyEvery 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.