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Cannon County, Tennessee

Cannon County, TN: non-irrigated cash rent $94 an acre (2026); land and buildings $6,095 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 158.8 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 47015. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Cash rent, non-irrigated
$94/ac
2026 county average
TN median $65 · 28th highest of 87
Land and buildings
$6,095/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
TN median $5,131 · 25th highest of 93
Rent as % of land value
1.55%
$95 dry rent ÷ $6,095 land and buildings, both 2022
Corn yield, 2008–2024 median
158.8 bu/ac
recent level 2020–2024: 166.6
TN median 162.2 · 13th lowest of 32
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$5.15
2016–2025, closed crop years
TN median $8.40 · 9th lowest of 71
Farmland rented
30%
2022 census, rented from others
TN median 28% · 42nd highest of 94

Cash rent

$0$20$40$60$80$100$1202010201520202025$56$94 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$94/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+6.2%nominal, $88 to $94
Pasture, 2026$32/ac
Dry rent per bushel of corn$0.56$94 ÷ 166.6 bu, county yield 2020–2024

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$6,095/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$3,097/ac
Census 2017$3,587/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+69.9%+11.2% a year, nominal
Dry cropland rent ÷ census value, 20221.55%$95 ÷ $6,095; cropland 54% of land in farms

Corn yield

20082010201220142016201820202022202494.0189.892.2median 158.8

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

Median, 2008–2024158.8 bu/ac17 published years
Recent level, 2020–2024166.6 bu/ac5 published years, high and low dropped
Lowest published year2012: 33.0 bu/ac21% of median
Trend, 2008–2024+2.2 bu/ac a year±4.3 (95% interval)

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$5.15
Loss ratio, 2016–20250.62claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20250.82$10.4 million paid
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025heat and drought 57% · excess moisture 13% · freeze 8%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

20002005201020152020202518420

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, 2000–2025127 of 1,357 weeks9% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks200842 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202518 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202668.0 °F1991–2020 normal 66.5 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.49 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September28.2 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 108% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.7 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, 20222% of cropland1,042 ac
Farmed no-till, 202237% of cropland18,117 ac
Cover crops, 20227% of cropland3,495 ac
198619911996200120062011201620211701,4120

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac
Cattle and calves, 202211,960−20.4% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202230%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Cannon County$94—$6,095158.8$5.15
Coffee County$131—$5,382167.2$4.28
DeKalb County$106—$4,806—$3.89
Rutherford County$65—$10,250161.1$10.39
Warren County$115$245 2024$6,580167.9$5.90
Wilson County$56—$6,533—$14.71
Median next door$106—$6,533167.2$5.90

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. Cannon County, Tennessee. 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/tennessee/cannon-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.