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Columbiana County, Ohio

Columbiana County, OH: non-irrigated cash rent $94 an acre (2026); land and buildings $7,379 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 148.8 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 39029. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in Columbiana County is $94 per acre in 2026, up 24.5 percent from 2016. Census land value came in at $7,379 per acre in 2022, with a 27.9 percent change from 2017 to 2022, 5 percent a year. Corn yields show a fitted trend of 0.8 bushels per acre a year on published years 2008-2025, with a median of 148.8 bushels per acre and a worst year of 123 in 2008. Heat and drought stand as the largest cause of indemnities across 1989-2025 at 41 percent, and the share by period runs 38 percent, 41 percent, 21 percent, 67 percent across 1989-1999, 2000-2009, 2010-2019, and 2020-2025. Solar and wind operating capacity are both 0 MW, with 0 MW proposed to EIA for each.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$94/ac
2026 county average
OH median $168 · 19th lowest of 76
Land and buildings
$7,379/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
OH median $7,956 · 29th lowest of 87
Rent as % of land value
1.21%
$89 dry rent ÷ $7,379 land and buildings, both 2022
Corn yield, 2008–2025 median
148.8 bu/ac
recent level 2021–2025: 164.6
OH median 169.9 · 9th lowest of 69
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$4.70
2016–2025, closed crop years
OH median $4.69 · 41st highest of 83
Farmland rented
35%
2022 census, rented from others
OH median 37% · 37th lowest of 87

Cash rent

$0$20$40$60$80$1002010201520202025$40$94 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$94/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+24.5%nominal, $76 to $94
Pasture, 2025$40/ac
Dry rent per bushel of corn$0.57$94 ÷ 164.6 bu, county yield 2021–2025

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$7,379/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$4,861/ac
Census 2017$5,769/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+27.9%+5.0% a year, nominal
Dry cropland rent ÷ census value, 20221.21%$89 ÷ $7,379; cropland 65% of land in farms

Corn yield

200820102012201420162018202020222024123.0181.1126.5median 148.8

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

Median, 2008–2025148.8 bu/ac18 published years
Recent level, 2021–2025164.6 bu/ac5 published years, high and low dropped
Lowest published year2008: 123.0 bu/ac83% of median
Trend, 2008–2025+0.8 bu/ac a year±1.7 (95% interval)

Crop insurance record

20072012201720220.291.981.00: 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$4.70
Loss ratio, 2016–20250.49claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20250.55$18.8 million paid
Years claims exceeded premium1 of 19
Worst year2025ratio 1.98
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025heat and drought 41% · excess moisture 30% · price decline (revenue policies) 10%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

200020052010201520202025043

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, 2000–202511 of 1,357 weeks1% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks20244 weeks
Last five years, 2021–20257 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202662.0 °F1991–2020 normal 60.8 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.54 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September23.9 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 103% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger1.3 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, 202230% of cropland30,382 ac
Farmed no-till, 202241% of cropland41,043 ac
Cover crops, 202210% of cropland10,128 ac
19861991199620012006201120162021122955148

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

CRP enrolled, 2025148 ac0.2% of harvested cropland + CRP
CRP expiring FY2026–202826 ac18% of enrolled acres
CRP average rental payment, FY2025$66/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer
Irrigation wells on record108Ohio DNR water well logs
Median well depth159 ft
Cattle and calves, 202225,068−14.4% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202235%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Columbiana County$94$7,379148.8$4.70
Carroll County$65$5,992123.5$15.49
Jefferson County$46$5,780139.3$24.60
Mahoning County$102$8,291152.9$5.40
Stark County$88$10,369151.0$4.51
Beaver County, PA$71$7,099124.1$8.73
Lawrence County, PA$54$5,532144.1$7.30
Hancock County, WV—$4,294——
Median next door$68$5,992141.7$8.02

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. Columbiana County, Ohio. 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/ohio/columbiana-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.