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Hall County, Nebraska

Hall County, NE: non-irrigated cash rent $130 an acre (2025); land and buildings $5,923 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 199.8 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 31079. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Hall County irrigates 83 percent of harvested cropland, all of it from groundwater, and that shapes the rent picture. Non-irrigated rent is up 31.3 percent from 2014 to 2025.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$130/ac
2025 county average
too few 2025 county surveys in the state to compare
Cash rent, irrigated
$279/ac
2026 county average
NE median $272 · 33rd highest of 78
Land and buildings
$5,923/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
NE median $4,499 · 32nd highest of 93
Corn yield, 2008–2025 median
199.8 bu/ac
recent level 2021–2025: 212.6 · irrigated and dryland combined
NE median 179.3 · 5th highest of 67
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$3.74
2016–2025, closed crop years
NE median $4.74 · 25th lowest of 90
Farmland rented
54%
2022 census, rented from others
NE median 49% · 33rd highest of 93

Cash rent

$0$50$100$150$200$250$3002010201520202025$95$130 dry$163$279 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, 2025$130/ac
Change 2014 to 2025+31.3%nominal, $99 to $130
Irrigated, 2026$279/ac
Pasture, 2023$42/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$5,923/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$4,470/ac
Census 2017$5,083/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+16.5%+3.1% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— about 83% of cropland is irrigated (2022 census), so dry rent over the all-land census value is not a yield on anything

Corn yield

200820102012201420162018202020222024171.0217.5210.4median 199.8

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

Median, 2008–2025199.8 bu/ac17 published years, irrigated and dryland combined
Recent level, 2021–2025212.6 bu/ac4 published years, high and low dropped
Lowest published year2008: 171.0 bu/ac86% of median
Trend, 2008–2025+1.8 bu/ac a year±1.1 (95% interval)

Crop insurance record

1996200120062011201620210.391.440.721.00: 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$3.74
Loss ratio, 2016–20250.66claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20250.64$127.3 million paid
Years claims exceeded premium4 of 30
Worst year2019ratio 1.44
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025hail 36% · heat and drought 17% · excess moisture 16%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

20002005201020152020202539528

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, 2000–2025264 of 1,357 weeks20% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks202352 weeks
Last five years, 2021–2025107 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202664.4 °F1991–2020 normal 63.9 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.14 °F a decadeno clear direction
Rain, April to September20.3 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 95% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger2.6 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 202283%
Drained by tile, 2022under 1% of cropland426 ac
Farmed no-till, 202213% of cropland30,106 ac
Cover crops, 20224% of cropland9,178 ac
19861991199620012006201120162021182,411676

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

CRP enrolled, 2025676 ac0.3% of harvested cropland + CRP
CRP expiring FY2026–202866 ac10% of enrolled acres
CRP average rental payment, FY2025$43/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer
Irrigation wells in use (Nebraska register)4,403
Median well depth79 ft
Solar and wind operating, 202510.9 MW solar · 0 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860
Cattle and calves, 202267,025−2.0% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202254%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Hall County$130 2025$279$5,923199.8$3.74
Adams County$144$307$6,544195.9$4.12
Buffalo County$138$271$4,857195.4$3.21
Hamilton County$174$304$8,963212.9$2.33
Howard County$132$245$4,372183.6$4.73
Merrick County—$272$5,476—$3.60
Median next door$141$272$5,476195.7$3.60

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. Hall County, Nebraska. 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/nebraska/hall-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.