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Holmes County, Ohio

Holmes County, OH: non-irrigated cash rent $127 an acre (2026); land and buildings $9,808 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 151.4 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 39075. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Cash rent, non-irrigated

$127/ac

2026 county average
OH median $168 · 27th lowest of 76

Land and buildings

$9,808/ac

2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
OH median $7,956 · 12th highest of 87

Dry rent per bushel of corn

$0.77

$127 ÷ 164.6 bu, recent yield 2021–2025

Corn yield, 2008–2025 median

151.4 bu/ac

recent level 2021–2025: 164.6
OH median 169.9 · 13th lowest of 69

Claims paid per $100 of coverage

$4.69

2016–2025, closed crop years
OH median $4.69 · 42nd lowest of 83

Farmland rented

23%

2022 census, rented from others
OH median 37% · 17th 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, 2026$127/ac

Change 2016 to 2026+15.5%nominal, $110 to $127

Pasture, 2026$66/ac

Dry rent per bushel of corn$0.77$127 ÷ 164.6 bu, county yield 2021–2025

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$9,808/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price

Census 2012$5,822/ac

Census 2017$7,741/ac

Change 2017 to 2022+26.7%+4.8% a year, nominal

Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 46% 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, 2008–2025151.4 bu/ac18 published years

Recent level, 2021–2025164.6 bu/ac5 published years, high and low dropped

Lowest published year2012: 127.2 bu/ac84% of median

Trend, 2008–2025+0.8 bu/ac a year±1.4 (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$4.69

Loss ratio, 2016–20250.51claims ÷ total premium

Loss ratio, 1989–20250.54$15.5 million paid

Years claims exceeded premium2 of 18

Worst year2008ratio 1.24

Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025excess moisture 39% · heat and drought 35% · price decline (revenue policies) 15%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, 2000–202511 of 1,357 weeks1% of weeks

Year with the most D2+ weeks20026 weeks

Last five years, 2021–20255 weeks

July average of daily lows, 2017–202662.7 °F1991–2020 normal 60.9 °F

Trend in July lows since 1976+0.58 °F a decadewarming

Rain, April to September23.9 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 101% of it

Days with hail 1 inch or larger1.1 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, 202234% of cropland28,530 ac

Farmed no-till, 202226% of cropland22,350 ac

Cover crops, 202212% of cropland10,380 ac

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

CRP enrolled, 2025642 ac0.9% of harvested cropland + CRP

CRP expiring FY2026–2028258 ac40% of enrolled acres

CRP average rental payment, FY2025$95/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer

Irrigation wells on record158Ohio DNR water well logs

Median well depth161 ft

Cattle and calves, 202234,280−30.9% since 2017

Farmland rented from others, 202223%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

County	Dry rent	Land value	Corn yield	Claims per $100
Holmes County	$127	$9,808	151.4	$4.69
Ashland County	$129	$7,886	—	$4.63
Coshocton County	$95	$6,755	159.4	$5.37
Knox County	$149 2025	$7,956	165.1	$2.36
Stark County	$88	$10,369	151.0	$4.51
Tuscarawas County	$120	$7,082	151.2	$6.49
Wayne County	$154	$12,012	161.4	$3.20
Median next door	$120	$7,921	159.4	$4.57

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. Holmes 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/holmes-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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