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Turner County, South Dakota

Name: Turner County, South Dakota: farmland rent, land value and risk record
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Turner County, SD: non-irrigated cash rent $218 an acre (2026); land and buildings $7,125 an acre in the 2022 census. Bids, weather, crops, land and programs for one county. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 46125. Figures as of Nov 10, 2026; the rows marked with a date load the newest reading when the page opens.

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Stands out against its own record

$218

Non-irrigated cash rent, 2026: the highest of 17 surveys since 2008; up 19.1% from $183 in 2016.

USDA NASS Cash Rents Survey, 2026

192.0 bu

Corn yield, all practices, 2025: the highest of 18 published years since 2008.

USDA NASS county yields, 2025

Cash rent in Turner County runs $218 an acre for 2026, up 19.1% from $183 in 2016 and 6th highest of 63 in South Dakota, where the state median is $112. The census value of land and buildings came in at $7,125 an acre in 2022, up 42.0% from $5,019 in 2017 and 6th highest of 66. Corn made 192.0 bu in 2025, well above the 2021-25 average of 154.6 bu. 60% of the farmland was rented in 2022.

Cash rent, non-irrigated

$218/ac

2026 county average
SD median $112 · 6th highest of 63

Cash rent, irrigated

$306/ac

2026 county average
SD median $259 · 2nd highest of 13

Land and buildings

$7,125/ac

2022: operators' own estimate of what land and buildings were worth · SD farm real estate 2026: $3,100 (land and buildings, state survey)
SD median $3,173 · 6th highest of 66

Corn yield, 2021-25 average

154.6 bu/ac

high and low dropped · 2025 county yield 192.0 · rent-per-bushel trend withheld: fewer than 6 dryland county yields in the last 15 years, and the all-practice yield is not a substitute: county yield mixes irrigated and dryland acres

Claims paid per $100 of coverage

$11.31

2016–2025, closed crop years
SD median $11.31 · tied for 32nd highest of 65

Farmland rented

60%

2022 census, rented from others
SD median 46% · 2nd highest of 66

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Grain and prices within 50 miles

Corn bid

Soybean bid

Corn basis

Soybean basis

Corn futures

Soybean futures

Class III milk futures

Feeder cattle futures

Live cattle futures

Lean hog futures

Hay, South Dakota price received

Bids are posted elevator prices within 50 miles of the county middle, or of your own field or saved place in this county when this device has one (each row says which), best and nearest, never a buyer's name. Not a contract; call before you haul. Livestock lines show where the 2022 Census counts 1,000 head or more: milk for milk cows, feeder cattle for beef cows, live cattle for cattle on feed, hogs for hogs, hay for all cattle.

South Dakota cash bids by town · Bids from your own ZIP or farm, in Fast Facts

Cash bids by town near the middle of Turner County: Viborg (9 mi), Marion (10 mi), Chancellor (11 mi).

Nearby buyers within 50 miles: 5 ethanol plants

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Straight-line miles from the middle of Turner County to each buyer’s town point (the middle of its town, not the gate), rounded. Capacity as published. Where the buyers are, not what they pay. Lists from Renewable Fuels Association, EIA, read Oct 28, 2026.

Weather and the season

Rain since Jan 1

Drought this week

Hail, last 30 days

Rain so far this year in Turner County, South Dakota

Drought, year by year

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, 2000–2025128 of 1,357 weeks9% of weeks

Year with the most D2+ weeks201224 weeks

Last five full years, 2021–202548 weeks

2026 so far18 weekshalf the county or more in D2, 40 weekly maps

July average of daily lows, 2017–202663.4 °F1991–2020 normal 62.3 °F

Trend in July lows since 1976+0.36 °F a decadeno clear direction

Rain, April to September, usual20.3 in1991–2020 county normal, NOAA; the 2017–2026 seasons averaged 19.6 in

Days with hail 1 inch or larger1.4 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Last spring freeze, first fall freezeApr 22, Oct 7middle dates 1996–2025, NOAA county-average daily low of 32 °F or colder

Frost-free days163middle of 1996–2025

Corn growing degree days, May to September2,737middle of 1996–2025; 2016–2025 averaged 2,838

Crops

Corn harvested

Soybeans harvested

Corn yield

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

Trend for rent per bushelFewer than 6 dryland county yields in the last 15 years, and the all-practice yield is not a substitute: county yield mixes irrigated and dryland acres

2025 county yield192.0 bu/acall practices

2021-25 average154.6 bu/ac5 published years, high and low dropped

Median, 2008–2025164.3 bu/ac18 published years

Lowest published year2012: 64.1 bu/ac39% of median

Trend, 2008–2025+0.9 bu/ac a year±3.0 (95% interval)

Land rent, value, sales

Cash rent

Dollars per acre, USDA NASS county survey. A break in a line is a year with no published survey.

Every published South Dakota county rate, side by side: South Dakota cash rent by county.

Non-irrigated, 2026$218/ac

Change 2016 to 2026+19.1%nominal, $183 to $218

Irrigated, 2026$306/ac

Pasture, 2026$60/ac

Rent as a share of corn gross, 200919.5%$114 non-irrigated rent 2009 ÷ (181.0 bu, 2009 county yield, dryland × $3.23 South Dakota price received)

Share of gross is a past year, from that year's rent, county corn yield and state price, USDA NASS. Rent per bushel is withheld here for lack of a county corn yield history. The calculator below takes your own yield and price.

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$7,125/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price

Census 2012$4,316/ac

Census 2017$5,019/ac

Change 2017 to 2022+42.0%+7.3% a year, nominal

Dry cropland rent ÷ census value, 20222.72%$194 ÷ $7,125; cropland 91% of land in farms

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

The census value is this county's, from 2022. The survey figures are the South Dakota average for 2026, from the USDA NASS Land Values report. NASS publishes that survey by state, not by county, so this page does not scale one into the other.

Auction results

Oct 27, 2026: 132.4 acres, $1,324,100 total sold.
- Tract 1: $1,324,100, $10,000/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Nov 18, 2025: 280.7 acres, $2,463,895 total sold.
- Tract 1: $1,409,130, $9,000/acre, as reported
- Tract 2: $1,054,765, $8,500/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Nov 14, 2025: 71.2 acres, $557,453 total sold.
- Tract 1: $557,453, $7,825/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Nov 6, 2025: 290.8 acres, $2,824,289 total sold.
- Tract 1: $1,270,464, $9,600/acre, as reported
- Tract 2: $812,000, $10,150/acre, as reported
- Tract 3: $741,825, $9,450/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Nov 3, 2025: 160 acres, $1,056,000 total sold.
- Tract 1: $1,056,000, $6,600/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Oct 29, 2024: 149.5 acres, $1,525,308 total sold.
- Tract 1: $1,525,308, $10,200/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Aug 21, 2024: 544 acres, $4,617,180 total sold.
- Tract 1: $3,225,180, $8,400/acre, as reported
- Tract 2: $1,392,000, $8,700/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Dec 22, 2023: 76.1 acres, $722,950 total sold.
- Tract 1: $722,950, $9,500/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Nov 15, 2023: 200 acres, $1,670,000 total sold.
- Tract 1: $1,670,000, $8,350/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Nov 2, 2023: 40 acres, $395,000 total sold.
- Tract 1: $395,000, $9,875/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Oct 24, 2023: 161 acres, $1,610,000 total sold.
- Tract 1: $1,610,000, $10,000/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Apr 21, 2023: 80 acres, $880,000 total sold.
- Tract 1: $880,000, $11,000/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Nov 1, 2022: 350.1 acres, $2,395,104 total sold.
- Tract 1: $997,120, $8,000/acre, as reported
- Tract 2: $960,896, $6,400/acre, as reported
- Tract 3: $437,088, $5,800/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Oct 13, 2022: 217.5 acres, $1,546,242 total sold.
- Tract 1: $1,295,250, $8,250/acre, as reported
- Tract 2: $250,992, $4,150/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Aug 23, 2022: 230.9 acres, $2,088,067 total sold.
- Tract 1: $1,320,067, $11,900/acre, as reported
- Tract 2: $768,000, $6,400/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Apr 25, 2022: 219 acres, $1,944,000 total sold.
- Tract 1: $621,000, $8,625/acre, as reported
- Tract 2: $1,323,000, $9,000/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Mar 22, 2022: 153 acres, $1,392,300 total sold.
- Tract 1: $1,392,300, $9,100/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Jan 20, 2022: 40 acres, $389,000 total sold.
- Tract 1: $389,000, $9,725/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Dec 3, 2021: 185.7 acres, $1,634,336 total sold.
- Tract 1: $1,634,336, $8,800/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Nov 11, 2020: 160 acres, $1,200,400 total sold.
- Tract 1: $606,000, $7,575/acre, as reported
- Tract 2: $594,400, $7,430/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Oct 14, 2020: 160 acres, $784,000 total sold.
- Tract 1: $784,000, $4,900/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Mar 17, 2020: 191.1 acres, $800,924 total sold.
- Tract 1: $204,000, $5,100/acre, as reported
- Tract 2: $596,924, $3,950/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Dec 19, 2019: 68.4 acres, $651,768 total sold.
- Tract 1: $159,000, no per-acre figure published
- Tract 2: $492,768, $7,200/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Nov 25, 2019: 160 acres, $642,720 total sold.
- Tract 1: $642,720, $4,017/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Nov 20, 2019: 69 acres, $213,900 total sold.
- Tract 1: $213,900, $3,100/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Oct 30, 2019: 78 acres, $468,000 total sold.
- Tract 1: $468,000, $6,000/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Oct 30, 2018: 309.5 acres, $1,392,615 total sold.
- Tract 1: $672,615, $4,500/acre, as reported
- Tract 2: $720,000, $4,500/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Oct 19, 2018: 38 acres, $172,900 total sold.
- Tract 1: $172,900, $4,550/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Sep 6, 2018: 118 acres, $442,650 total sold.
- Tract 1: $442,650, $3,750/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Apr 18, 2018: 60 acres, $318,000 total sold.
- Tract 1: $318,000, $5,300/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Dec 7, 2017: 160 acres, $880,000 total sold.
- Tract 1: $880,000, $5,500/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Nov 10, 2017: 263 acres, $1,680,035 total sold.
- Tract 1: $453,600, $6,300/acre, as reported
- Tract 2: $472,500, $6,300/acre, as reported
- Tract 4: $753,935, $6,500/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Nov 2, 2017: 183.1 acres, $760,819 total sold.
- Tract 1: $281,819, $4,450/acre, as reported
- Tract 2: $479,000, $4,000/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Oct 19, 2017: 133 acres, $625,100 total sold.
- Tract 1: $540,500, $4,700/acre, as reported
- Tract 2: $84,600, $4,700/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Apr 20, 2017: 31 acres, $139,500 total sold.
- Tract 1: $139,500, $4,500/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Mar 15, 2017: 128.5 acres, $494,802 total sold.
- Tract 1: $494,802, $3,850/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Mar 1, 2017: 76.9 acres, $376,761 total sold.
- Tract 1: $376,761, $4,900/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Feb 9, 2017: 75.2 acres, $548,887 total sold.
- Tract 1: $548,887, $7,300/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Dec 8, 2016: 128.2 acres, $581,888 total sold.
- Tract 1: $404,260, $4,250/acre, as reported
- Tract 2: $52,000, no per-acre figure published
- Tract 3: $125,628, $3,800/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Nov 28, 2016: 168 acres, $688,800 total sold.
- Tract 1: $688,800, $4,100/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Nov 16, 2016: 79.5 acres, $560,546 total sold.
- Tract 1: $560,546, $7,050/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Apr 21, 2016: 84.3 acres, $412,972 total sold.
- Tract 1: $412,972, $4,900/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Feb 18, 2016: 184.1 acres, $991,636 total sold.
- Tract 1: $475,200, $6,400/acre, as reported
- Tract 2: $516,436, $4,700/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Nov 10, 2015: 79.6 acres, $616,668 total sold.
- Tract 1: $616,668, $7,750/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Sep 15, 2015: 325 acres, $1,579,125 total sold.
- Tract 1: $1,080,000, $6,750/acre, as reported
- Tract 2: $499,125, $3,025/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Sep 3, 2015: 79.8 acres, $564,231 total sold.
- Tract 1: $564,231, $7,075/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Mar 27, 2015: 290.7 acres, $1,911,810 total sold.
- Tract 1: $647,677, $7,325/acre, as reported
- Tract 2: $293,000, $7,325/acre, as reported
- Tract 3: $940,677, $7,325/acre, as reported
- Tract 4: $30,456, $900/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Oct 30, 2014: 397.2 acres, $2,128,432 total sold.
- Tract 1: $901,683, $5,700/acre, as reported
- Tract 1: $815,949, $5,100/acre, as reported
- Tract 3: $410,800, $5,200/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Oct 8, 2014: 133.2 acres, $679,524 total sold.
- Tract 1: $679,524, $5,100/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Oct 1, 2014: 80 acres, $368,000 total sold.
- Tract 1: $368,000, $4,600/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Feb 7, 2014: 79.8 acres, $641,988 total sold.
- Tract 1: $641,988, $8,050/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Oct 1, 2013: 155 acres, $1,084,790 total sold.
- Tract 1: $1,084,790, $7,000/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Sep 16, 2013: 38 acres, $261,053 total sold.
- Tract 1: $261,053, $6,868/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Feb 27, 2013: 80 acres, $600,000 total sold.
- Tract 1: $600,000, $7,500/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page
Feb 22, 2013: 80 acres, $300,000 total sold.
- Tract 1: $300,000, $3,750/acre, as reported
Wieman auction page

Results reported by Wieman Land & Auction. Not recorded transfers; not every sale is listed. Figures as published by the auction firm.

Programs and risk

ARC or PLC sign-up

Benchmarks, payments and the choice for each crop: ARC or PLC in Turner County.

Insuring pasture or hay? PRF rainfall insurance for pasture and hay in Turner County: its grids, county values and record are on the county PRF page.

Crop insurance record

Claims paid over total premium, each closed crop year since 1994; a year with under $1,000,000 of premium has no bar. Above the dashed line, claims were more than premium. 2026, still open, is left out.

Claims paid per $100 of coverage, 2016–2025$11.31

Loss ratio, 2016–20251.05claims ÷ total premium

Loss ratio, 1989–20250.97$306.5 million paid

Years claims exceeded premium5 of 32crop years 1994–2025 with a loss ratio

Worst year2012ratio 6.13, of the 32 crop years with at least $1,000,000 of premium

Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025heat and drought 54% · excess moisture 30% · area plans 9%share of dollars paid

Conservation Reserve Program

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

CRP enrolled, 20258,886 ac2.5% of harvested cropland + CRP

CRP expiring FY2027–20291,945 ac22% of enrolled acres

CRP average rental payment, FY2025$181/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer

What farms here look like

Harvested cropland irrigated, 2022NASS suppressed the irrigated acres to protect individual farms

Drained by tile, 202218% of cropland64,231 ac

Farmed no-till, 202217% of cropland60,421 ac

Cover crops, 20225% of cropland16,363 ac

Cattle and calves, 202249,307−9.6% since 2017

Milk cows, 202216,225head, Census of Agriculture

Beef cows, 20228,895head, Census of Agriculture

Cattle on feed, 202211,423head, Census of Agriculture

Hogs and pigs, 202279,976head, Census of Agriculture

Farmland rented from others, 202260%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

USDA Census of Agriculture 2022, except wells (state well register) and power (EIA Form 860).

Next door

County	Dry rent	Irr. rent	Land value	Corn yield, median	Claims per $100
Turner County	$218	$306	$7,125	164.3	$11.31
Clay County	$241	$303	$7,445	175.6	$11.38
Hutchinson County	$165	n/a	$5,615	151.2	$14.81
Lincoln County	$244	$261	$8,445	162.3	$7.66
McCook County	$214	n/a	$6,395	158.5	$11.73
Minnehaha County	$221	$241	$8,346	172.0	$3.75
Yankton County	$194	$315	$5,549	169.8	$13.89
Median next door	$218	$282	$6,920	166.1	$11.56

Counties that share a stretch of boundary. A rent from an older survey year carries its year; one more than three survey years old shows n/a. A corn median shows n/a for a county with too few published years.

Not on this page yet

This year's growing degree days and first fall freeze for the county. The normals above are here; the current year is not yet.
County crop condition and harvest pace. USDA publishes them by state, not by county, so the state line stands in.
Recorded farm sale prices. We read county deed records for Illinois and Wisconsin so far, not South Dakota.
Number of farms and farm size, from the 2022 Census of Agriculture county tables.
Soils, slope, wetlands and flood zones for one field. Those load at the field in Field Scout, not on a county page.

Cite this page

AGSIST Farmland Atlas. Turner County, South Dakota. Figures as of Nov 10, 2026, from USDA NASS, USDA RMA, USDA FSA, the U.S. Drought Monitor and NOAA. https://agsist.com/farmland-atlas/south-dakota/turner-county

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Sources and terms

Every figure is a county average from the sources below, not an appraisal of any farm. "Figures as of" is the date this page's numbers last changed. Rent ranks count every county with a published rent in the same survey year, within the state (the same counties as the state rent page); other ranks count counties with 10,000 acres or more in farms. Downloads: all counties, CSV.

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

Rent: USDA NASS Cash Rents Survey, county. Land value: Census of Agriculture, operators' estimate of land and buildings. Yield: USDA NASS county corn yields. Loss ratio and claims: USDA RMA Summary of Business. Drought: U.S. Drought Monitor. July lows: NOAA nClimDiv county monthly minimum temperature. A missing figure is named with its reason (in a table it reads n/a).