DeKalb County, Missouri
DeKalb County, MO: non-irrigated cash rent $156 an acre (2026); land and buildings $4,456 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 127.0 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 29063. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Non-irrigated cash rent in DeKalb County runs $156 per acre for 2026, down 6.6 percent from 2016. Land value, by the operators' own estimate, stood at $4,456 per acre in 2022, up 36.1 percent from 2017, or 6.4 percent a year. Cropland here is not irrigated, so production rests on rainfall, and drought weeks over 2000-2025 came to 144 of 1357, with zero from 2021-2025. Heat and drought has driven crop insurance losses, rising in share from 1989-1999 through 2010-2019 before falling in 2020-2025. Corn yields trended up 4 bushels per acre a year over 2008-2023, though 2012 dropped to 56.4 against a median of 127.
MO median $117 · tied for 34th highest of 109
MO median $4,459 · 56th lowest of 113
MO median $6.71 · 22nd lowest of 96
MO median 32% · 52nd highest of 114
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 | Land value | Corn yield | Claims per $100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeKalb County | $156 | $4,456 | — | $4.63 |
| Andrew County | $175 | $5,070 | — | $3.56 |
| Buchanan County | $164 | $5,382 | — | $3.80 |
| Caldwell County | $158 | $4,467 | 143.3 | $6.62 |
| Clinton County | $200 | $5,692 | 162.5 | $3.77 |
| Daviess County | $175 | $4,517 | — | $6.66 |
| Gentry County | $160 | $4,448 | — | $6.97 |
| Median next door | $170 | $4,794 | 152.9 2 co. | $5.21 |
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. DeKalb 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/dekalb-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.