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Darke County, Ohio

Darke County, OH: non-irrigated cash rent $287 an acre (2025); land and buildings $10,913 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 174.9 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 39037. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in Darke County is $287 per acre in 2025, up 48.7 percent from 2014. Land value in 2022 is $10,913 per acre, up 31.2 percent from 2017, 5.6 percent a year.

Cash rent, non-irrigated

$287/ac

2025 county average
too few 2025 county surveys in the state to compare

Land and buildings

$10,913/ac

2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
OH median $7,956 · 6th highest of 87

Dry rent per bushel of corn

$1.50

$287 ÷ 191.6 bu, recent yield 2019–2023

Corn yield, 2008–2023 median

174.9 bu/ac

recent level 2019–2023: 191.6
OH median 169.9 · tied for 17th highest of 69

Claims paid per $100 of coverage

$2.24

2016–2025, closed crop years
OH median $4.69 · 7th lowest of 83

Farmland rented

44%

2022 census, rented from others
OH median 37% · 38th highest of 87

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.

Non-irrigated, 2025$287/ac

Change 2014 to 2025+48.7%nominal, $193 to $287

Pasture, 2024$60/ac

Dry rent per bushel of corn$1.50$287 ÷ 191.6 bu, county yield 2019–2023

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$10,913/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price

Census 2012$7,097/ac

Census 2017$8,319/ac

Change 2017 to 2022+31.2%+5.6% a year, nominal

Dry rent ÷ census value— NASS published no non-irrigated cash rent for this county in 2022

Corn yield

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

Median, 2008–2023174.9 bu/ac16 published years

Recent level, 2019–2023191.6 bu/ac5 published years, high and low dropped

Lowest published year2012: 100.1 bu/ac57% of median

Trend, 2008–2023+3.9 bu/ac a year±2.7 (95% interval)

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.

Claims paid per $100 of coverage, 2016–2025$2.24

Loss ratio, 2016–20250.29claims ÷ total premium

Loss ratio, 1989–20250.56$122.4 million paid

Years claims exceeded premium4 of 27

Worst year2002ratio 5.90

Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025heat and drought 53% · excess moisture 18% · area plans 10%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

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, 2000–20256 of 1,357 weeks0% of weeks

Year with the most D2+ weeks20124 weeks

Last five years, 2021–20250 weeks

July average of daily lows, 2017–202664.0 °F1991–2020 normal 62.7 °F

Trend in July lows since 1976+0.31 °F a decadeno clear direction

Rain, April to September23.4 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 100% of it

Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.7 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, 202260% of cropland201,527 ac

Farmed no-till, 202249% of cropland163,848 ac

Cover crops, 20225% of cropland17,703 ac

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

CRP enrolled, 20253,220 ac1% of harvested cropland + CRP

CRP expiring FY2026–20281,366 ac42% of enrolled acres

CRP average rental payment, FY2025$227/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer

Irrigation wells on record264Ohio DNR water well logs

Median well depth141 ft

Solar and wind operating, 20251.8 MW solar · 4.5 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860

Cattle and calves, 202254,582+33.9% since 2017

Farmland rented from others, 202244%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

County	Dry rent	Land value	Corn yield	Claims per $100
Darke County	$287 2025	$10,913	174.9	$2.24
Jay County, IN	$217	$10,478	166.0	$2.85
Randolph County, IN	$209	$9,308	172.2	$1.65
Wayne County, IN	$214	$7,341	179.3	$2.42
Mercer County	$280 2025	$12,513	175.0	$2.40
Miami County	$212	$10,549	179.4	$2.09
Montgomery County	$215	$7,918	170.2	$1.60
Preble County	$232	$8,645	182.2	$1.42
Shelby County	$256	$10,560	172.7	$3.13
Median next door	$215	$9,893	173.9	$2.25

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. Darke 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/darke-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.

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