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Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

Westmoreland County, PA: non-irrigated cash rent $71 an acre (2026); land and buildings $6,940 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 130.2 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 42129. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Cash rent, non-irrigated
$71/ac
2026 county average
PA median $68 · tied for 27th highest of 60
Land and buildings
$6,940/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
PA median $7,064 · 31st lowest of 63
Rent as % of land value
0.57%
$40 dry rent ÷ $6,940 land and buildings, both 2022
Corn yield, 2009–2025 median
130.2 bu/ac
recent level 2021–2025: 130.7
PA median 135.7 · 15th lowest of 45
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$13.00
2016–2025, closed crop years
PA median $8.42 · 10th highest of 52
Farmland rented
33%
2022 census, rented from others
PA median 30% · 28th highest of 63

Cash rent

$0$20$40$602010201520202025$28$71 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$71/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+85.5%nominal, $38 to $71
Pasture, 2025$25/ac
Dry rent per bushel of corn$0.54$71 ÷ 130.7 bu, county yield 2021–2025

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$6,940/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$4,758/ac
Census 2017$5,909/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+17.4%+3.3% a year, nominal
Dry cropland rent ÷ census value, 20220.57%$40 ÷ $6,940; cropland 60% of land in farms

Corn yield

200920112013201520172019202120232025131.9157.5112.1median 130.2

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

Median, 2009–2025130.2 bu/ac17 published years
Recent level, 2021–2025130.7 bu/ac5 published years, high and low dropped
Lowest published year2024: 93.6 bu/ac72% of median
Trend, 2009–2025−0.2 bu/ac a year±2.0 (95% interval)

Crop insurance record

20112016202120230.330.190.520.240.551.00: claims equal premium

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$13.00
Loss ratio, 2016–20250.99claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20250.78$15.5 million paid
Worst year2023ratio 0.55
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025heat and drought 59% · excess moisture 30% · other 5%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

2000200520102015202020250170

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+ weeks202417 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202517 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202662.4 °F1991–2020 normal 60.5 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.54 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September25.4 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 112% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger2.2 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 20220%
Drained by tile, 20228% of cropland6,787 ac
Farmed no-till, 202232% of cropland26,275 ac
Cover crops, 20225% of cropland4,096 ac
19861991199620012006201120162021273,3121,158

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

CRP enrolled, 20251,158 ac1.7% of harvested cropland + CRP
CRP expiring FY2026–2028310 ac27% of enrolled acres
CRP average rental payment, FY2025$111/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer
Solar and wind operating, 202517.1 MW solar · 0 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860
Cattle and calves, 202220,792−10.9% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202233%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Westmoreland County$71$6,940130.2$13.00
Allegheny County—$10,009——
Armstrong County$32$4,502128.8$11.02
Cambria County$48$4,911127.0$10.02
Fayette County$33$7,064119.4$19.41
Indiana County$46$4,312135.7$7.47
Somerset County$39$4,380134.1$13.37
Washington County$30$7,188—$21.77
Median next door$36$4,911128.8$12.20

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. Westmoreland 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/westmoreland-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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