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Hocking County, Ohio

Hocking County, OH: non-irrigated cash rent $101 an acre (2025); land and buildings $6,488 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 153.6 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 39073. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in Hocking County averages $101 per acre in 2025, up 8.6 percent from 2014. Corn yields show a median of 153.6 bushels per acre over 2008-2022, with a worst year of 110 in 2012. July nights average 63.9 F over 2017-2026 against a 1991-2020 normal of 62.3 F, part of a warming trend of 0.45 F per decade since 1976. Drought has been rare: 17 of 1357 weeks since 2000 crossed the severe threshold, 13 of them in 2024. No solar or wind capacity operates or is proposed here.

Cash rent, non-irrigated

$101/ac

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

Land and buildings

$6,488/ac

2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
OH median $7,956 · 26th lowest of 87

Rent as % of land value

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not shown: cropland is 33% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield, 2008–2022 median

153.6 bu/ac

9 published years

Claims paid per $100 of coverage

$9.87

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

Farmland rented

10%

2022 census, rented from others
OH median 37% · lowest 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$101/ac

Change 2014 to 2025+8.6%nominal, $93 to $101

Pasture, 2025$63/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$6,488/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price

Census 2012$3,585/ac

Census 2017$4,527/ac

Change 2017 to 2022+43.3%+7.5% a year, nominal

Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 33% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield

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

Median, 2008–2022153.6 bu/ac9 published years

Lowest published year2012: 110.0 bu/ac72% of median

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$9.87

Loss ratio, 2016–20251.04claims ÷ total premium

Loss ratio, 1989–20250.98$4.9 million paid

Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025excess moisture 57% · heat and drought 25% · freeze 8%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, 2000–202517 of 1,357 weeks1% of weeks

Year with the most D2+ weeks202413 weeks

Last five years, 2021–202513 weeks

July average of daily lows, 2017–202663.9 °F1991–2020 normal 62.3 °F

Trend in July lows since 1976+0.45 °F a decadewarming

Rain, April to September23.6 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 102% of it

Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.5 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 20221%

Drained by tile, 202211% of cropland1,445 ac

Farmed no-till, 202222% of cropland2,957 ac

Cover crops, 20222% of cropland245 ac

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

CRP enrolled, 20251,075 ac9.6% of harvested cropland + CRP

CRP expiring FY2026–2028195 ac18% of enrolled acres

CRP average rental payment, FY2025$96/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer

Irrigation wells on record33Ohio DNR water well logs

Median well depth260 ft

Cattle and calves, 20222,489+13.0% since 2017

Farmland rented from others, 202210%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

County	Dry rent	Land value	Corn yield	Claims per $100
Hocking County	$101 2025	$6,488	—	$9.87
Athens County	$55	$4,123	151.8	$8.47
Fairfield County	$188	$7,551	175.0	$2.68
Perry County	$103	$6,172	—	$5.49
Pickaway County	$218	$8,962	174.2	$5.13
Ross County	$174	$6,424	174.5	$4.54
Vinton County	$56 2025	$4,236	—	$10.40
Median next door	$174	$6,298	174.4	$5.31

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. Hocking 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/hocking-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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