Warren County, New Jersey
Warren County, NJ: non-irrigated cash rent $129 an acre (2026); land and buildings $13,941 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 145.0 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 34041. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Non-irrigated cash rent in Warren County stands at $129 per acre for 2026, up 68.6 percent from 2016. Land value reached $13,941 per acre in the 2022 census, up 14.4 percent from 2017, or 2.7 percent a year, and that rent equals 0.62 percent of that value. July nights average 63.5 F for 2017-2026, above the 61.1 F normal for 1991-2020, and the trend since 1976 runs 1.05 F per decade, warming. Crop insurance shows a loss ratio of 0.65 over 1989-2025 but 1.02 over 2016-2025, with heat and drought at 98 percent of indemnities in 1989-1999, 60 percent in 2000-2009, 21 percent in 2010-2019, and 87 percent in 2020-2025. Only 5 percent of harvested cropland carries irrigation, and severe drought covered the county for 11 weeks between 2021-2025.
NJ median $84 · highest of 10
too few 2017 county surveys in the state to compare
NJ median $14,983 · 5th lowest of 13
NJ median $8.47 · 4th lowest of 12
NJ median 32% · 6th highest of 13
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 | Irr. rent | Land value | Corn yield | Claims per $100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warren County | $129 | — | $13,941 | — | $6.53 |
| Hunterdon County | $66 | — | $17,886 | — | $10.14 |
| Morris County | — | $130 2024 | $30,022 | — | $3.82 |
| Sussex County | $42 2025 | — | $13,039 | — | — |
| Bucks County, PA | $45 | $195 2024 | $15,277 | 113.3 | $6.11 |
| Monroe County, PA | $48 | — | $10,086 | — | $16.09 |
| Northampton County, PA | $90 | — | $11,794 | 148.3 | $10.19 |
| Pike County, PA | — | — | $3,130 | — | — |
| Median next door | $57 | — | $13,039 | 130.8 2 co. | $10.14 |
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. Warren County, New Jersey. 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/new-jersey/warren-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.