Montgomery County, Tennessee
Montgomery County, TN: non-irrigated cash rent $132 an acre (2026); land and buildings $5,228 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 165.2 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 47125. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Non-irrigated cash rent here runs $132 per acre, up 11.9 percent from 2016 to 2026. Land carries a census value of $5,228 per acre, with that value up 6.3 percent from 2017 to 2022, 1.2 percent a year. Heat and drought account for 43 percent of crop insurance indemnities over 1989-2025, and that share moved from 41 percent in 1989-1999 to 37 percent in 2000-2009, then to 44 percent in 2010-2019, then to 46 percent in 2020-2025. The corn yield trend for 2009-2025 runs 3.8 bushels per acre a year, against a median of 165.2 and a worst year of 63.7 in 2012. July nights average 70 F over 2017-2026, compared with 68.3 F for the 1991-2020 normal. Irrigation covers 2 percent of harvested cropland as of the 2022 census.
TN median $65 · 17th highest of 87
too few 2013 county surveys in the state to compare
TN median $5,131 · 45th highest of 93
TN median 162.2 · 14th highest of 32
TN median $8.40 · 29th lowest of 71
TN median 28% · 17th 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 | Irr. rent | Land value | Corn yield | Claims per $100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montgomery County | $132 | — | $5,228 | 165.2 | $6.88 |
| Christian County, KY | $200 | $219 | $5,807 | 181.7 | $5.94 |
| Todd County, KY | $200 | — | $6,606 | 175.4 | $4.06 |
| Cheatham County | $94 2024 | — | $6,673 | — | $8.40 |
| Dickson County | $61 | — | $5,919 | — | $9.60 |
| Houston County | $65 | — | $3,906 | — | — |
| Robertson County | $187 | — | $7,424 | 172.4 | $6.01 |
| Stewart County | $65 | — | $4,031 | — | $20.09 |
| Median next door | $126 | $219 1 co. | $5,919 | 175.4 | $7.21 |
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. Montgomery 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/montgomery-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.