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Clinton County, Missouri

Clinton County, MO: non-irrigated cash rent $200 an acre (2026); land and buildings $5,692 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 162.5 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 29049. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in Clinton County averages $200 per acre for 2026, up 28.2 percent from 2016. Land value per the 2022 census sits at $5,692 per acre, with the 2022 rent-to-value ratio at 3.46 percent. Corn yield trend over 2008-2025 runs 3.4 bushels per acre a year, with a median of 162.5 bushels per acre and a worst year of 57.6 in 2012. Heat and drought accounts for 61 percent of crop insurance indemnities paid from 1989-2025, and that share moved from 25 percent in 1989-1999, to 62 percent in 2000-2009, to 62 percent in 2010-2019, to 53 percent in 2020-2025. No solar or wind capacity is operating or proposed in the county.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$200/ac
2026 county average
MO median $117 · 4th highest of 109
Land and buildings
$5,692/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
MO median $4,459 · 23rd highest of 113
Rent as % of land value
3.46%
$197 dry rent ÷ $5,692 land and buildings, both 2022
Corn yield, 2008–2025 median
162.5 bu/ac
recent level 2021–2025: 185.7
MO median 148.2 · 10th highest of 39
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$3.77
2016–2025, closed crop years
MO median $6.71 · 10th lowest of 96
Farmland rented
40%
2022 census, rented from others
MO median 32% · 29th highest of 114

Cash rent

$0$50$100$150$2002010201520202025$95$200 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$200/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+28.2%nominal, $156 to $200
Pasture, 2026$46/ac
Dry rent per bushel of corn$1.08$200 ÷ 185.7 bu, county yield 2021–2025

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$5,692/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$3,427/ac
Census 2017$3,721/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+53.0%+8.9% a year, nominal
Dry cropland rent ÷ census value, 20223.46%$197 ÷ $5,692; cropland 70% of land in farms

Corn yield

200820102012201420162018202020222024157.0191.0185.1median 162.5

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

Median, 2008–2025162.5 bu/ac18 published years
Recent level, 2021–2025185.7 bu/ac5 published years, high and low dropped
Lowest published year2012: 57.6 bu/ac35% of median
Trend, 2008–2025+3.4 bu/ac a year±3.0 (95% interval)

Crop insurance record

200420092014201920240.045.220.141.00: 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$3.77
Loss ratio, 2016–20250.34claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20250.69$69.6 million paid
Years claims exceeded premium3 of 22
Worst year2012ratio 5.22
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025heat and drought 61% · excess moisture 33% · price decline (revenue policies) 4%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

2000200520102015202020258370

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, 2000–2025129 of 1,357 weeks10% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks200337 weeks
Last five years, 2021–20255 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202666.5 °F1991–2020 normal 66.7 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.03 °F a decadeno clear direction
Rain, April to September27.1 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 89% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger1.3 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, 202224% of cropland31,801 ac
Farmed no-till, 202255% of cropland72,111 ac
Cover crops, 20224% of cropland5,605 ac
1986199119962001200620112016202132622,6642,860

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

CRP enrolled, 20252,860 ac2.3% of harvested cropland + CRP
CRP expiring FY2026–2028413 ac14% of enrolled acres
CRP average rental payment, FY2025$169/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer
Cattle and calves, 202225,850+2.9% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202240%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Clinton County$200$5,692162.5$3.77
Buchanan County$164$5,382—$3.80
Caldwell County$158$4,467143.3$6.62
Clay County$175$6,629—$5.71
DeKalb County$156$4,456—$4.63
Platte County$168$5,713160.1$3.90
Ray County$187$5,276—$4.58
Median next door$166$5,329151.7 2 co.$4.61

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. Clinton 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/clinton-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.