Farmland Atlas · county record

Bradford County, Pennsylvania

Bradford County, PA: non-irrigated cash rent $30 an acre (2026); land and buildings $4,433 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 120.7 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 42015. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

Open on the map Compare Printable sheet
Cash rent, non-irrigated
$30/ac
2026 county average
PA median $68 · tied for 10th lowest of 60
Land and buildings
$4,433/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
PA median $7,064 · 12th lowest of 63
Rent as % of land value
0.62%
$28 dry rent ÷ $4,433 land and buildings, both 2022
Corn yield, 2010–2025 median
120.7 bu/ac
8 published years
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$10.37
2016–2025, closed crop years
PA median $8.42 · 18th highest of 52
Farmland rented
27%
2022 census, rented from others
PA median 30% · 24th lowest of 63

Cash rent

$0$10$20$30$40$502010201520202025$34$30 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$30/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+3.4%nominal, $29 to $30
Pasture, 2026$19/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$4,433/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$3,704/ac
Census 2017$3,623/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+22.4%+4.1% a year, nominal
Dry cropland rent ÷ census value, 20220.62%$28 ÷ $4,433; cropland 60% of land in farms

Corn yield

20102012201420162018202020222024128.2132.1141.1113.294.8108.1136.099.6median 120.7

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

Median, 2010–2025120.7 bu/ac8 published years
Lowest published year2020: 94.8 bu/ac79% 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$10.37
Loss ratio, 2016–20250.90claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20250.73$9.9 million paid
Worst year2022ratio 1.14
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025heat and drought 42% · excess moisture 38% · freeze 9%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, 2000–20250 of 1,357 weeks0% of weeks
Last five years, 2021–20250 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202659.8 °F1991–2020 normal 58.2 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.56 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September23.1 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 107% 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, 2022— NASS suppressed the irrigated acres to protect individual farms
Drained by tile, 20228% of cropland12,692 ac
Farmed no-till, 202220% of cropland33,075 ac
Cover crops, 20228% of cropland13,556 ac
1986199119962001200620112016202128720,0489,666

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

CRP enrolled, 20259,666 ac7% of harvested cropland + CRP
CRP expiring FY2026–20283,546 ac37% of enrolled acres
CRP average rental payment, FY2025$73/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer
Cattle and calves, 202243,450−8.3% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202227%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Bradford County$30$4,433—$10.37
Chemung County, NY$55$3,542—$5.49
Tioga County, NY$49$2,865——
Lycoming County$65$6,578131.0$10.92
Sullivan County$26$4,619——
Susquehanna County$18$5,274——
Tioga County$48$4,552128.5$16.68
Wyoming County$33$5,125——
Median next door$48$4,619129.8 2 co.$10.92

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. Bradford County, Pennsylvania. 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/pennsylvania/bradford-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.