Greene County, Missouri
Greene County, MO: non-irrigated cash rent $50 an acre (2026); land and buildings $7,004 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 135.6 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 29077. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Non-irrigated cash rent in Greene County stands at $50 per acre, up 35.6 percent from 2016 to 2026. Heat and drought drove 86 percent of crop insurance indemnities over 1995-2025, and that share rose to 89 percent in 2020-2025 from 82 percent in 2010-2019. The corn yield trend on published years 2008-2021 ran down 0.5 bushels per acre a year, with a median of 135.6 bushels per acre and a worst year of 66.7 in 2018. July nightly lows averaged 67.9 F over 2017-2026, above the 1991-2020 normal of 66.5 F, and the county has warmed 0.42 F per decade since 1976. No cropland here is irrigated, per the 2022 census. Land value rose 47.6 percent from 2017 to 2022, 8.1 percent a year.
MO median $117 · 25th lowest of 109
MO median $4,459 · 2nd highest of 113
MO median $6.71 · 4th highest of 96
MO median 32% · 34th 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 1995. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greene County | $50 | $7,004 | — | $24.42 |
| Christian County | $46 | $5,535 | — | $29.43 |
| Dade County | $66 | $3,520 | 118.5 | $11.62 |
| Dallas County | $32 | $4,179 | — | — |
| Lawrence County | $68 | $4,465 | — | $23.38 |
| Polk County | $48 | $3,857 | — | $25.62 |
| Webster County | $37 | $4,559 | — | $32.31 |
| Median next door | $47 | $4,322 | 118.5 1 co. | $25.62 |
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. Greene 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/greene-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.