Van Buren County, Tennessee
Van Buren County, TN: non-irrigated cash rent $26 an acre (2025); land and buildings $4,510 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 47175. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Non-irrigated cash rent in Van Buren County averages $26 per acre in 2025, down 38.8 percent from 2014. Land value, by the operators' own estimate, stands at $4,510 per acre in 2022, up 34.6 percent from 2017, or 6.1 percent a year. July nights average 66.8 F for 2017-2026, against a 65.4 F normal for 1991-2020, and the July nightly low trend since 1976 runs 0.55 F per decade, warming. Drought hit 147 of 1357 weeks from 2000-2025 at severe level or worse, with 29 of those weeks falling in 2021-2025, and heat and drought's share of indemnities moved from 20 percent in 2000-2009, to 41 percent in 2010-2019, to 35 percent in 2020-2025.
too few 2025 county surveys in the state to compare
TN median $5,131 · 36th lowest of 93
TN median 28% · 4th 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.
Land value
Corn yield
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Van Buren County | $26 2025 | — | $4,510 | — | — |
| Bledsoe County | $80 | — | $4,089 | — | $25.41 |
| Cumberland County | $94 | — | $5,023 | — | — |
| Sequatchie County | $49 2025 | — | $4,508 | — | $17.98 |
| Warren County | $115 | $245 2024 | $6,580 | 167.9 | $5.90 |
| White County | $57 | — | $6,261 | 165.8 | $7.05 |
| Median next door | $87 | — | $5,023 | 166.9 2 co. | $12.52 |
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. Van Buren 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/van-buren-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.