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Wilson County, North Carolina

Wilson County, NC: non-irrigated cash rent $154 an acre (2026); land and buildings $4,325 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 106.5 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 37195. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in Wilson County reached $154 per acre in 2026, up 52.5 percent from 2016. Land value stood at $4,325 per acre in 2022, up 14.3 percent from 2017, and rent takes 3.12 percent of that value.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$154/ac
2026 county average
NC median $80 · 3rd highest of 85
Cash rent, irrigated
$150/ac
2022 county average
too few 2022 county surveys in the state to compare
Land and buildings
$4,325/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
NC median $5,711 · 22nd lowest of 92
Corn yield, 2008–2025 median
106.5 bu/ac
recent level 2021–2025: 115.5
NC median 114.8 · 13th lowest of 49
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$9.98
2016–2025, closed crop years
NC median $14.91 · 25th lowest of 78
Farmland rented
61%
2022 census, rented from others
NC median 35% · 9th highest of 94

Cash rent

$0$50$100$1502010201520202025$64$154 dry$74$150 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, 2026$154/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+52.5%nominal, $101 to $154
Irrigated, 2022$150/ac
Dry rent per bushel of corn$1.33$154 ÷ 115.5 bu, county yield 2021–2025

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$4,325/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$3,817/ac
Census 2017$3,784/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+14.3%+2.7% a year, nominal
Dry cropland rent ÷ census value, 20223.12%$135 ÷ $4,325; cropland 86% of land in farms

Corn yield

20082010201220142016201820202022202465.0152.2median 106.5

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

Median, 2008–2025106.5 bu/ac18 published years
Recent level, 2021–2025115.5 bu/ac5 published years, high and low dropped
Lowest published year2024: 54.6 bu/ac51% of median
Trend, 2008–2025+0.9 bu/ac a year±2.9 (95% interval)

Crop insurance record

1996200120062011201620213.730.701.00: 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$9.98
Loss ratio, 2016–20251.12claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20251.14$127.1 million paid
Years claims exceeded premium15 of 30
Worst year1996ratio 3.73
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025excess moisture 33% · heat and drought 30% · wind 25%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

2000200520102015202020250304

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, 2000–202587 of 1,357 weeks6% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks200230 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202512 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202670.5 °F1991–2020 normal 69.4 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.59 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September28.2 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 110% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger1.0 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, 20225% of cropland5,791 ac
Farmed no-till, 202251% of cropland54,875 ac
Cover crops, 202211% of cropland12,023 ac
19861991199620012006201120162021611,08745

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

CRP enrolled, 202545 ac
CRP expiring FY2026–202820 ac
Solar and wind operating, 2025128.4 MW solar · 0 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860
Cattle and calves, 20223,222+79.6% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202261%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Wilson County$154—$4,325106.5$9.98
Edgecombe County$122—$3,445102.6$9.44
Greene County$136—$4,677104.5$15.84
Johnston County$114—$6,813104.5$15.48
Nash County$126$135 2023$4,436—$7.64
Pitt County$123—$4,126105.9$15.47
Wayne County$134—$4,258107.2$13.94
Median next door$125—$4,347104.5$14.71

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. Wilson 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/wilson-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.