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Butler County, Missouri

Butler County, MO: non-irrigated cash rent $75 an acre (2026); land and buildings $5,085 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 160.9 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 29023. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Cash rent, non-irrigated
$75/ac
2026 county average
MO median $117 · tied for 40th lowest of 109
Cash rent, irrigated
$226/ac
2025 county average
too few 2025 county surveys in the state to compare
Land and buildings
$5,085/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
MO median $4,459 · 34th highest of 113
Corn yield, 2008–2022 median
160.9 bu/ac
10 published years · irrigated and dryland combined
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$7.60
2016–2025, closed crop years
MO median $6.71 · 41st highest of 96
Farmland rented
61%
2022 census, rented from others
MO median 32% · 7th highest of 114

Cash rent

$0$50$100$150$2002010201520202025$82$75 dry$130$226 irrigated

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$75/ac
Change 2016 to 2026−17.7%nominal, $91 to $75
Irrigated, 2025$226/ac
Pasture, 2025$14/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$5,085/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$3,184/ac
Census 2017$4,695/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+8.3%+1.6% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— about 64% of cropland is irrigated (2022 census), so dry rent over the all-land census value is not a yield on anything

Corn yield

20082010201220142016201820202022160.0138.0126.0133.1156.9174.2161.8173.1192.1176.2median 160.9

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

Median, 2008–2022160.9 bu/ac10 published years, irrigated and dryland combined
Lowest published year2010: 126.0 bu/ac78% of median
Trend, 2008–2022+3.0 bu/ac a year±2.1 (95% interval)

Crop insurance record

20072012201720220.162.301.651.00: claims equal premium

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$7.60
Loss ratio, 2016–20251.06claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20250.87$72.9 million paid
Years claims exceeded premium7 of 19
Worst year2019ratio 2.30
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025excess moisture 80% · heat and drought 11% · wind 4%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

2000200520102015202020255223

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, 2000–202589 of 1,357 weeks7% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks201222 weeks
Last five years, 2021–20257 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202670.5 °F1991–2020 normal 69.3 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.40 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September25.7 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 111% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger1.7 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 202264%
Drained by tile, 20227% of cropland14,082 ac
Farmed no-till, 202211% of cropland23,303 ac
Cover crops, 2022under 1% of cropland761 ac
198619911996200120062011201620212531,537442

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

CRP enrolled, 2025442 ac0.2% of harvested cropland + CRP
CRP expiring FY2026–2028170 ac39% of enrolled acres
CRP average rental payment, FY2025$117/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer
Cattle and calves, 20225,867+13.1% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202261%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Butler County$75$226 2025$5,085—$7.60
Clay County, AR$42 2025$195$4,788183.0$7.12
Carter County$19—$2,342——
Dunklin County$131 2025$203 2024$6,938173.0$8.36
Ripley County$74—$2,855—$16.90
Stoddard County$113$208$6,814172.5$6.69
Wayne County$42—$2,495—$20.58
Median next door$58$202 2 co.$3,822173.0$8.36

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. Butler County, Missouri. 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/missouri/butler-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.
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.