Lafayette County, Missouri
Lafayette County, MO: non-irrigated cash rent $226 an acre (2026); land and buildings $7,328 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 173.3 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 29107. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Non-irrigated cash rent in Lafayette County is $226 per acre for 2026, up 59.2 percent from 2016. The census value of land and buildings was $7,328 per acre in 2022, and land value rose 61.6 percent from 2017 to 2022, 10.1 percent a year. Crop insurance indemnities from 1989-2025 total $80.6 million, with heat and drought the largest cause at 51 percent; that share moved 21 percent, 33 percent, 59 percent, 51 percent across the listed periods. The loss ratio for 2016-2025 was 0.22, below the 1989-2025 figure of 0.43. Irrigation draws entirely on groundwater as of 2015, and irrigation failure claims across all closed years total $14,750.
MO median $117 · 2nd highest of 109
too few 2011 county surveys in the state to compare
MO median $4,459 · highest of 113
MO median 148.2 · 3rd highest of 39
MO median $6.71 · lowest of 96
MO median 32% · 20th 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lafayette County | $226 | $7,328 | 173.3 | $1.69 |
| Carroll County | $192 | $5,366 | 147.0 | $5.90 |
| Jackson County | $158 | $6,658 | — | $4.00 |
| Johnson County | $105 | $4,787 | 136.1 | $7.73 |
| Pettis County | $149 | $4,906 | 133.7 | $6.20 |
| Ray County | $187 | $5,276 | — | $4.58 |
| Saline County | $196 | $6,325 | 170.3 | $2.43 |
| Median next door | $173 | $5,321 | 141.6 | $5.24 |
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. Lafayette 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/lafayette-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.