Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Schuylkill County, PA: non-irrigated cash rent $82 an acre (2026); land and buildings $8,075 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 128.7 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 42107. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Non-irrigated cash rent here runs $82 per acre, up 59.8 percent from 2016 to 2026. Land carries a census value of $8,075 per acre, up 21.5 percent from 2017 to 2022, 4 percent a year. Corn yields hold a median of 128.7 bushels per acre over 2008-2025, with a trend of 0.3 bushels per acre a year and a worst year of 78 in 2011. July nights average 63.4 F over 2017-2026, against a 1991-2020 normal of 61.4 F, and the long trend since 1976 runs 0.84 F per decade, warming. Heat and drought drove 87 percent of indemnities in 1989-1999, 66 percent in 2000-2009, 48 percent in 2010-2019, and 81 percent in 2020-2025.
PA median $68 · 23rd highest of 60
too few 2012 county surveys in the state to compare
PA median $7,064 · 25th highest of 63
PA median 135.7 · 13th lowest of 45
PA median $8.42 · 19th lowest of 52
PA median 30% · 11th highest of 63
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.
Land value
Corn yield
Bushels per acre, USDA NASS county yields, all practices. The dashed line is the median of the published years.
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.
Drought and weather
Weeks per year, U.S. Drought Monitor, with half the county or more in D2 (severe) drought or worse.
Land, water and programs
Acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, USDA FSA, by fiscal year.
Next door
| County | Dry rent | Irr. rent | Land value | Corn yield | Claims per $100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schuylkill County | $82 | — | $8,075 | 128.7 | $7.98 |
| Berks County | $155 | — | $13,449 | 162.3 | $6.07 |
| Carbon County | $60 | — | $8,381 | — | $24.77 |
| Columbia County | $78 | — | $7,413 | 133.1 | $8.33 |
| Dauphin County | $88 | $70 2024 | $10,895 | 130.9 | $4.60 |
| Lebanon County | $206 | — | $16,709 | 173.0 | $3.28 |
| Lehigh County | $121 | — | $9,925 | 152.5 | $6.07 |
| Luzerne County | $66 | — | $5,786 | 123.8 | $10.64 |
| Northumberland County | $111 | — | $8,292 | 140.4 | $8.33 |
| Median next door | $99 | — | $9,153 | 140.4 | $7.20 |
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. Schuylkill 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/schuylkill-countyEvery 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.