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Claiborne County, Mississippi

Claiborne County, MS: non-irrigated cash rent $102 an acre (2026); land and buildings $2,979 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 156.9 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 28021. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in Claiborne County runs $102 per acre in 2026, up 48.9 percent from 2016. Corn yields have trended up 3 bushels per acre a year over 2009-2025, with a median of 156.9 bushels per acre and a worst year of 90 in 2009. Heat and drought's share of crop insurance indemnities moved 11 percent, 23 percent, 19 percent, then 60 percent across 1989-1999, 2000-2009, 2010-2019, and 2020-2025. The county carries a crop insurance loss ratio of 0.64 over 1989-2025, and 0.68 over the ten closed crop years 2016-2025. Irrigation covers 5 percent of harvested cropland as of the 2022 census, and no solar or wind capacity operates or is proposed here.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$102/ac
2026 county average
MS median $67 · 20th highest of 71
Land and buildings
$2,979/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
MS median $3,313 · 28th lowest of 82
Dry rent per bushel of corn
$0.65
$102 ÷ 156.6 bu, recent yield 2021–2025
Corn yield, 2009–2025 median
156.9 bu/ac
recent level 2021–2025: 156.6
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$6.06
2016–2025, closed crop years
MS median $10.48 · 5th lowest of 59
Farmland rented
14%
2022 census, rented from others
MS median 24% · 21st lowest of 82

Cash rent

$0$20$40$60$80$1002010201520202025$44$102 dry

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$102/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+48.9%nominal, $69 to $102
Pasture, 2026$17/ac
Dry rent per bushel of corn$0.65$102 ÷ 156.6 bu, county yield 2021–2025

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$2,979/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$2,011/ac
Census 2017$2,708/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+10.0%+1.9% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 19% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield

20092011201320152017201920212023202590.0120.0120.7154.4164.1173.7172.9159.7159.4160.3153.7148.8median 156.9

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

Median, 2009–2025156.9 bu/ac12 published years
Recent level, 2021–2025156.6 bu/ac4 published years, high and low dropped
Lowest published year2009: 90.0 bu/ac57% of median
Trend, 2009–2025+3.0 bu/ac a year±2.5 (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$6.06
Loss ratio, 2016–20250.68claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20250.64$4.6 million paid
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025excess moisture 42% · heat and drought 32% · area plans 15%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

200020052010201520202025270

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, 2000–202596 of 1,357 weeks7% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks200027 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202532 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202672.6 °F1991–2020 normal 71.5 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.34 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September26.6 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 111% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.8 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 20225%
Cover crops, 202222% of cropland2,818 ac
1986199119962001200620112016202186514,3424,355

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

CRP enrolled, 20254,355 ac32.3% of harvested cropland + CRP
CRP expiring FY2026–2028206 ac5% of enrolled acres
CRP average rental payment, FY2025$57/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer
Cattle and calves, 20225,029−39.9% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202214%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Claiborne County$102—$2,979—$6.06
Tensas Parish, LA$104$175$2,843172.8$7.76
Copiah County$73—$3,412—$10.48
Hinds County$66—$3,474146.7$11.10
Jefferson County$50—$3,384—$25.33
Warren County$155$190$2,627—$20.48
Median next door$73$183 2 co.$3,384159.8 2 co.$11.10

Counties that share a stretch of boundary. An older rent carries its year and stays out of the median.

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AGSIST Farmland Atlas. Claiborne County, Mississippi. 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/mississippi/claiborne-county
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.
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"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.