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Cheatham County, Tennessee

Cheatham County, TN: non-irrigated cash rent $94 an acre (2024); land and buildings $6,673 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 147.7 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 47021. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in Cheatham County averages $94 per acre in 2024, up 14 percent from 2014. Land value per the 2022 census sits at $6,673 per acre, after a 46.4 percent change from 2017 to 2022. Corn yields show a median of 147.7 bushels per acre over 2010-2022, with a worst year of 56.7 in 2012. July nights have warmed at 0.62 F per decade since 1976, and drought weeks stayed low from 2021-2025 at 7 of the period. Solar and wind operating capacity are both 0 MW.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$94/ac
2024 county average
too few 2024 county surveys in the state to compare
Land and buildings
$6,673/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
TN median $5,131 · 15th highest of 93
Rent as % of land value
—
not shown: cropland is 41% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland
Corn yield, 2010–2022 median
147.7 bu/ac
8 published years
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$8.40
2016–2025, closed crop years
TN median $8.40 · 36th lowest of 71
Farmland rented
28%
2022 census, rented from others
TN median 28% · 47th lowest of 94

Cash rent

$0$20$40$60$80$100201020152020$41$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, 2024$94/ac
Change 2014 to 2024+14.0%nominal, $82 to $94
Pasture, 2023$21/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$6,673/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$4,270/ac
Census 2017$4,557/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+46.4%+7.9% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 41% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield

201020112012201320142015201620172018201920202021202285.056.7149.1145.3170.0166.0169.8146.3median 147.7

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

Median, 2010–2022147.7 bu/ac8 published years
Lowest published year2012: 56.7 bu/ac38% of median

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$8.40
Loss ratio, 2016–20251.13claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20250.97$3.9 million paid
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025excess moisture 44% · heat and drought 44% · other 6%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

2000200520102015202020255200

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, 2000–202550 of 1,357 weeks4% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks200720 weeks
Last five years, 2021–20257 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202669.8 °F1991–2020 normal 68.0 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.62 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September25.7 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 98% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.9 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, 20221% of cropland212 ac
Farmed no-till, 202226% of cropland4,726 ac
Cover crops, 20227% of cropland1,349 ac
1986199119962001200620112016202126982325

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

CRP enrolled, 202525 ac
CRP expiring FY2026–20280 ac
Cattle and calves, 20225,856−15.1% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202228%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Cheatham County$94 2024$6,673—$8.40
Davidson County$77 2023$12,414——
Dickson County$61$5,919—$9.60
Montgomery County$132$5,228165.2$6.88
Robertson County$187$7,424172.4$6.01
Williamson County$53$7,148—$8.23
Median next door$97$7,148168.8 2 co.$7.56

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. Cheatham 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/cheatham-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.