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South Dakota farmland values by county

South Dakota: 66 counties, each with census land value, USDA cash rent, corn yield, crop insurance claims and drought weeks, from public records. Click a heading to sort.

Cash rent: every published South Dakota county rate side by side, with history back to 2008, irrigated and pasture shown apart: South Dakota cash rent by county.

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South Dakota at a glance

Median dry cash rent$112median of the 63 counties with a published 2026 non-irrigated rent, the same counties as the South Dakota rent page
Median land and buildings, 2022 census$3,173median of 66 counties with 10,000+ farm acres, value not flagged
Median corn yield151.5median of 33 counties with 10,000+ farm acres, 15+ published years
Median claims per $100 of coverage$11.31median of 65 counties with 10,000+ farm acres
South Dakota cropland, 2026 state survey$4,770/ac+3.5% from 2025 · USDA NASS Land Values, state average
South Dakota farm real estate, 2026$3,100/acland and buildings, state average
South Dakota pasture, 2026$1,400/acstate average
Farm bankruptcies (Chapter 12)5 filingsfamily farm and fishing cases filed, 12 months to Sep 30, 2026 · 3 in 2025, 1 in 2024 · one federal court district · U.S. Courts, Table F-2

Farm loans: what ag bankers report

Is farm credit getting tighter where you farm? Each quarter the Federal Reserve asks ag bankers how repayment and loan renewals compare with a year earlier. South Dakota is in the Minneapolis Fed district (9th).

Minneapolis Fed district 9th · 2026 Q2

Tighter for borrowers than a year earlier.

Loan repayment rate75.93Under 100: more bankers said repayment rates fell than rose.
Renewals or extensions142.59Over 100: more bankers said renewals or extensions rose than fell.
Collateral required116.67Over 100: more bankers asked for more collateral than less.
40801201601002010201420182022202675.93 repayment142.59 renewals

Source: Minneapolis Fed ag survey, 2026 Q2.

How this works

Each quarter, ag bankers in the district say whether each item was higher, lower or the same as a year earlier. The index is the percent saying higher, minus the percent saying lower, plus 100. Over 100 means more said higher; under 100, more said lower; 100 is an even split.

The numbers come from the Kansas City Fed's table of every district survey. Chicago and Dallas quarters are checked against those banks' own files; a quarter where the two disagree is left out rather than guessed, and shows as a gap in the chart, as does a quarter not reported.

Fed districts do not follow state lines: a split state shows each district that reports. Richmond and San Francisco have no reading in the table after 2021 Q4 and 2020 Q2, so they are not shown. Read 2026-10-28.

Map: every county is a link

Aurora County: $139Beadle County: $140Bennett County: $32Bon Homme County: $160Brookings County: $205Brown County: $166Brule County: $110Buffalo County: no current rentButte County: $40Campbell County: $80Charles Mix County: $142Clark County: $170Clay County: $241Codington County: $175Corson County: $51Custer County: $29Davison County: $153Day County: $159Deuel County: $181Dewey County: $47Douglas County: $143Edmunds County: $112Fall River County: $24Faulk County: $112Grant County: $155Gregory County: $73Haakon County: $54Hamlin County: $176Hand County: $108Hanson County: $184Harding County: $33Hughes County: $90Hutchinson County: $165Hyde County: $92Jackson County: $40Jerauld County: $105Jones County: $36Kingsbury County: $158Lake County: $180Lawrence County: $25Lincoln County: $244Lyman County: $102Marshall County: $153McCook County: $214McPherson County: $100Meade County: $31Mellette County: $50Miner County: $146Minnehaha County: $221Moody County: $252Oglala Lakota County: no current rentPennington County: $37Perkins County: $39Potter County: $111Roberts County: $179Sanborn County: $138Spink County: $139Stanley County: $49Sully County: $97Todd County: $45Tripp County: $71Turner County: $218Union County: $252Walworth County: $105Yankton County: $194Ziebach County: no current rent
$24–$47$47–$105$105–$143$143–$179$179–$252

Dry cash rent, 2026 survey. Five equal-count groups of the state's counties: each swatch shows the range it covers. Grey is a county with no figure. Land values flagged to read with care are left grey.

Every county

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueMedian corn yieldClaims per $100Drought weeks

Rent is dollars per acre, NASS county survey; an older year is shown beside the figure. Land value is the census of agriculture estimate; a star marks a value flagged to read with care. Corn yield is the median of published years. Claims per $100 of coverage are the last ten closed crop years. Drought weeks are the share of weeks since 2000 with half the county or more in D2 drought or worse. n/a means the source withheld the figure or the record does not carry it.

This product uses the NASS API but is not endorsed or certified by NASS. Averages, trends, ranks and estimates are calculations by AGSIST.