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McNairy County, Tennessee

McNairy County, TN: non-irrigated cash rent $65 an acre (2026); land and buildings $2,954 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 130.8 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 47109. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in McNairy County averages $65 per acre for 2026, up 47.7 percent from 2014. Corn yields have trended up 1.8 bushels per acre a year over 2009-2025, with a median of 130.8 bushels per acre and a worst year of 87 in 2012. Heat and drought's share of crop insurance indemnities fell from 57 percent in 1989-1999 to 29 percent in 2000-2009 to 13 percent in 2010-2019, then rose to 26 percent in 2020-2025. The July nightly low has warmed 0.42 F per decade since 1976, and drought weeks over 2021-2025 reached 25.

Cash rent, non-irrigated

$65/ac

2026 county average
TN median $65 · tied for 43rd lowest of 87

Land and buildings

$2,954/ac

2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
TN median $5,131 · 4th lowest of 93

Rent as % of land value

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not shown: cropland is 40% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield, 2009–2025 median

130.8 bu/ac

13 published years

Claims paid per $100 of coverage

$9.90

2016–2025, closed crop years
TN median $8.40 · 31st highest of 71

Farmland rented

21%

2022 census, rented from others
TN median 28% · 22nd lowest 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.

Non-irrigated, 2026$65/ac

Change 2014 to 2026+47.7%nominal, $44 to $65

Pasture, 2026$25/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$2,954/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price

Census 2012$2,157/ac

Census 2017$2,203/ac

Change 2017 to 2022+34.1%+6.0% a year, nominal

Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 40% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield

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

Median, 2009–2025130.8 bu/ac13 published years

Lowest published year2012: 87.0 bu/ac67% of median

Trend, 2009–2025+1.8 bu/ac a year±1.7 (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$9.90

Loss ratio, 2016–20251.15claims ÷ total premium

Loss ratio, 1989–20250.86$20.8 million paid

Years claims exceeded premium3 of 13

Worst year2025ratio 2.51

Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025excess moisture 71% · heat and drought 23% · area plans 3%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

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, 2000–202589 of 1,357 weeks7% of weeks

Year with the most D2+ weeks200727 weeks

Last five years, 2021–202525 weeks

July average of daily lows, 2017–202670.3 °F1991–2020 normal 68.9 °F

Trend in July lows since 1976+0.42 °F a decadewarming

Rain, April to September27.6 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 104% 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, 20221% of cropland314 ac

Farmed no-till, 202253% of cropland24,712 ac

Cover crops, 20224% of cropland1,745 ac

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

CRP enrolled, 20253,025 ac7.6% of harvested cropland + CRP

CRP expiring FY2026–2028366 ac12% of enrolled acres

CRP average rental payment, FY2025$57/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer

Solar and wind operating, 202555.6 MW solar · 0 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860

Cattle and calves, 20228,537−15.3% since 2017

Farmland rented from others, 202221%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

County	Dry rent	Land value	Claims per $100
McNairy County	$65	$2,954	$9.90
Alcorn County, MS	$60	$2,375	$15.19
Chester County	$92	$2,781	$6.40
Hardeman County	$110	$2,804	$7.01
Hardin County	$92	$3,021	$14.69
Median next door	$92	$2,793	$10.85

Counties that share a stretch of boundary. An older rent carries its year and stays out of the median.

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AGSIST Farmland Atlas. McNairy 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/mcnairy-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.

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