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Iredell County, North Carolina

Iredell County, NC: non-irrigated cash rent $86 an acre (2026); land and buildings $7,124 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 119.2 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 37097. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Cash rent, non-irrigated
$86/ac
2026 county average
NC median $80 · tied for 38th highest of 85
Cash rent, irrigated
$100/ac
2019 county average
too few 2019 county surveys in the state to compare
Land and buildings
$7,124/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
NC median $5,711 · 23rd highest of 92
Corn yield, 2008–2023 median
119.2 bu/ac
recent level 2019–2023: 141.8
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$7.99
2016–2025, closed crop years
NC median $14.91 · 19th lowest of 78
Farmland rented
40%
2022 census, rented from others
NC median 35% · 35th highest of 94

Cash rent

$0$20$40$60$802010201520202025$50$86 dry

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, 2026$86/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+52.7%nominal, $56 to $86
Irrigated, 2019$100/ac
Pasture, 2026$44/ac
Dry rent per bushel of corn$0.60$86 ÷ 141.8 bu, county yield 2019–2023

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$7,124/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$6,014/ac
Census 2017$5,438/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+31.0%+5.5% a year, nominal
Dry cropland rent ÷ census value, 20220.99%$71 ÷ $7,124; cropland 57% of land in farms

Corn yield

20082010201220142016201820202022109.0156.4median 119.2

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

Median, 2008–2023119.2 bu/ac14 published years
Recent level, 2019–2023141.8 bu/ac4 published years, high and low dropped
Lowest published year2010: 89.1 bu/ac75% of median
Trend, 2008–2023+2.6 bu/ac a year±2.1 (95% interval)

Crop insurance record

2011201620210.100.320.370.210.340.720.770.390.290.434.740.351.00: 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$7.99
Loss ratio, 2016–20250.92claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20250.77$18.8 million paid
Years claims exceeded premium1 of 12
Worst year2024ratio 4.74
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025heat and drought 58% · excess moisture 20% · wind 14%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

20002005201020152020202515450

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, 2000–2025164 of 1,357 weeks12% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks200245 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202514 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202668.3 °F1991–2020 normal 66.9 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.65 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September24.7 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 110% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger1.8 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 2022— NASS suppressed the irrigated acres to protect individual farms
Drained by tile, 2022under 1% of cropland217 ac
Farmed no-till, 202248% of cropland32,756 ac
Cover crops, 20228% of cropland5,557 ac
19861991199620012006201120162021803,11666

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

CRP enrolled, 202566 ac
CRP expiring FY2026–20280 ac
Solar and wind operating, 20259.9 MW solar · 0 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860
Cattle and calves, 202240,002−9.8% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202240%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Iredell County$86$7,124—$7.99
Alexander County$56$6,886—$26.23
Cabarrus County$70$9,055125.2$9.20
Catawba County$47$7,785131.4$10.63
Davie County$67$5,867118.5$7.81
Lincoln County$49$8,442—$18.24
Mecklenburg County—$27,096——
Rowan County$74$6,780114.8$7.25
Wilkes County$62$5,664—$22.85
Yadkin County$91$6,239130.9$10.33
Median next door$65$6,886125.2$10.48

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. Iredell County, North Carolina. 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/north-carolina/iredell-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.