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Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma

Pottawatomie County, OK: non-irrigated cash rent $21 an acre (2025); land and buildings $3,181 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 105.7 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 40125. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent here is $21 per acre, down 33.3 percent from 2014 to 2025. Solar and wind operating capacity are both 0 MW, with 0 MW proposed to EIA for either.

Cash rent, non-irrigated

$21/ac

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

Land and buildings

$3,181/ac

2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
OK median $2,515 · 15th highest of 77

Rent as % of land value

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not shown: cropland is 27% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield, 2008–2023 median

105.7 bu/ac

13 published years

Claims paid per $100 of coverage

$10.18

2016–2025, closed crop years
OK median $19.63 · 3rd lowest of 55

Farmland rented

19%

2022 census, rented from others
OK median 35% · 6th lowest of 77

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$21/ac

Change 2014 to 2025−33.3%nominal, $32 to $21

Pasture, 2026$17/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$3,181/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price

Census 2012$1,756/ac

Census 2017$2,254/ac

Change 2017 to 2022+41.1%+7.1% a year, nominal

Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 27% 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, 2008–2023105.7 bu/ac13 published years

Lowest published year2011: 22.5 bu/ac21% of median

Trend, 2008–2023+5.1 bu/ac a year±3.9 (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$10.18

Loss ratio, 2016–20250.53claims ÷ total premium

Loss ratio, 1989–20250.88$6.9 million paid

Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025heat and drought 48% · excess moisture 32% · freeze 13%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, 2000–2025216 of 1,357 weeks16% of weeks

Year with the most D2+ weeks200641 weeks

Last five years, 2021–202560 weeks

July average of daily lows, 2017–202671.1 °F1991–2020 normal 70.6 °F

Trend in July lows since 1976+0.14 °F a decadeno clear direction

Rain, April to September25.1 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 104% of it

Days with hail 1 inch or larger2.8 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 20222%

Drained by tile, 20221% of cropland614 ac

Farmed no-till, 20226% of cropland4,365 ac

Cover crops, 20224% of cropland2,746 ac

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

CRP enrolled, 202537 ac

CRP expiring FY2026–202837 ac

Irrigation wells on record100Oklahoma Water Resources Board groundwater wells

Median well depth113 ft

Cattle and calves, 202243,367−17.7% since 2017

Farmland rented from others, 202219%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

County	Dry rent	Land value	Claims per $100
Pottawatomie County	$21 2025	$3,181	$10.18
Cleveland County	$41	$6,757	—
Lincoln County	$29	$3,128	—
McClain County	$33	$3,806	$9.36
Okfuskee County	$14	$2,545	—
Oklahoma County	$43	$8,800	$13.94
Pontotoc County	$18	$2,534	—
Seminole County	$13	$2,633	—
Median next door	$29	$3,128	$11.65 2 co.

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. Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma. 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/oklahoma/pottawatomie-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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