Henry County, Tennessee
Henry County, TN: non-irrigated cash rent $141 an acre (2026); land and buildings $4,384 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 169.9 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 47079. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Non-irrigated cash rent in Henry County runs $141 per acre in 2026, up 25.9 percent from 2016. Census land value sits at $4,384 per acre, having moved 31.9 percent from 2017 to 2022, or 5.7 percent a year. Heat and drought is the largest cause of crop insurance indemnities over 1989-2025, at 51 percent of $69.4 million paid, and its share of losses by period was 48 percent in 1989-1999, 33 percent in 2000-2009, 56 percent in 2010-2019, and 61 percent in 2020-2025. July nights have warmed: the 1991-2020 normal low is 68.9 F, against 70.7 F for 2017-2026. Only 5 percent of harvested cropland here is irrigated, and irrigation failure claims total just $36,118 across all closed years.
TN median $65 · 14th highest of 87
too few 2013 county surveys in the state to compare
TN median $5,131 · 32nd lowest of 93
TN median 162.2 · 4th highest of 32
TN median $8.40 · 25th lowest of 71
TN median 28% · 35th highest of 94
Cash rent
Dollars per acre, USDA NASS county survey. A break in a line is a year with no published survey; nothing is drawn across it.
Land value
Corn yield
Bushels per acre, USDA NASS county yields, all practices. The dashed line is the median of the published years.
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.
Drought and weather
Weeks per year, U.S. Drought Monitor, with half the county or more in D2 (severe) drought or worse.
Land, water and programs
Acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, USDA FSA, by fiscal year.
Next door
| County | Dry rent | Land value | Corn yield | Claims per $100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry County | $141 | $4,384 | 169.9 | $6.53 |
| Calloway County, KY | $161 | $5,167 | 143.0 | $8.48 |
| Graves County, KY | $170 | $5,523 | 154.0 | $5.52 |
| Benton County | $73 | $3,196 | — | $13.07 |
| Carroll County | $127 | $3,459 | 152.4 | $4.63 |
| Stewart County | $65 | $4,031 | — | $20.09 |
| Weakley County | $145 | $4,680 | 157.3 | $5.57 |
| Median next door | $136 | $4,356 | 153.2 | $7.03 |
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. Henry 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/henry-countyEvery 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.