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Sequatchie County, Tennessee

Sequatchie County, TN: non-irrigated cash rent $49 an acre (2025); land and buildings $4,508 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 143.5 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 47153. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Cash rent, non-irrigated
$49/ac
2025 county average
too few 2025 county surveys in the state to compare
Land and buildings
$4,508/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
TN median $5,131 · 35th lowest of 93
Rent as % of land value
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not shown: cropland is 12% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland
Corn yield, 2009–2025 median
143.5 bu/ac
11 published years
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$17.98
2016–2025, closed crop years
TN median $8.40 · 15th highest of 71
Farmland rented
17%
2022 census, rented from others
TN median 28% · 9th lowest of 94

Cash rent

$0$10$20$30$40$502010201520202025$36$49 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, 2025$49/ac
Change 2014 to 2025+22.8%nominal, $40 to $49
Pasture, 2023$26/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$4,508/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$3,236/ac
Census 2017$3,864/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+16.7%+3.1% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 12% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield

200920112013201520172019202120232025117.0111.098.675.6144.3107.5143.5146.5155.2163.4148.2median 143.5

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

Median, 2009–2025143.5 bu/ac11 published years
Lowest published year2012: 75.6 bu/ac53% of median
Trend, 2009–2025+3.7 bu/ac a year±2.4 (95% interval)

Crop insurance record

Claims paid divided by total premium (the farmer share plus the federal subsidy), each closed crop year since 1995. 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$17.98
Loss ratio, 2016–20251.09claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1995–20251.21$2.1 million paid
Largest causes of loss, 2001–2025excess moisture 47% · other 32% · heat and drought 15%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

20002005201020152020202518466

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, 2000–2025163 of 1,357 weeks12% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks200846 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202529 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202667.2 °F1991–2020 normal 65.8 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.50 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September29.2 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 101% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.6 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 20220%
Drained by tile, 202216% of cropland562 ac
Farmed no-till, 20228% of cropland274 ac
Cover crops, 20221% of cropland43 ac
198619911996200120062011201620213107280

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac
CRP expiring FY2026–20280 ac
Solar and wind operating, 20251.3 MW solar · 0 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860
Cattle and calves, 20227,423+2.2% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202217%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Sequatchie County$49 2025—$4,508—$17.98
Bledsoe County$80—$4,089—$25.41
Grundy County$54—$4,988—$6.67
Hamilton County$29—$8,551——
Marion County$59—$5,249164.4$7.62
Van Buren County$26 2025—$4,510——
Warren County$115$245 2024$6,580167.9$5.90
Median next door$59—$5,119166.2 2 co.$7.15

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. Sequatchie 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/sequatchie-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.