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Guadalupe County, Texas

Guadalupe County, TX: non-irrigated cash rent $30 an acre (2026); land and buildings $5,941 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 75.4 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 48187. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent here runs $30 per acre, up 31.1 percent from 2016 to 2026. Corn yields have a fitted trend of 1 bushels per acre a year over 2008-2025, with a median of 75.4 bushels per acre and a low of 15.6 in 2011, showing what a bad year does to this crop. Only 2 percent of harvested cropland was irrigated as of the 2022 census. Weeks in severe drought or worse totaled 431 of 1357 from 2000-2025, with 142 of those weeks falling in 2021-2025.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$30/ac
2026 county average
TX median $27 · tied for 79th highest of 189
Land and buildings
$5,941/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
TX median $2,782 · 19th highest of 246
Dry rent per bushel of corn
$0.44
$30 ÷ 67.4 bu, recent yield 2021–2025
Corn yield, 2008–2025 median
75.4 bu/ac
recent level 2021–2025: 67.4
TX median 90.7 · 4th lowest of 34
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$11.25
2016–2025, closed crop years
TX median $29.48 · 10th lowest of 174
Farmland rented
34%
2022 census, rented from others
TX median 39% · 86th lowest of 251

Cash rent

$0$10$20$302010201520202025$22$30 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, 2026$30/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+31.1%nominal, $23 to $30
Pasture, 2026$16/ac
Dry rent per bushel of corn$0.44$30 ÷ 67.4 bu, county yield 2021–2025

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$5,941/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$3,595/ac
Census 2017$3,893/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+52.6%+8.8% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 28% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield

20082010201220142016201820202022202424.0108.847.0median 75.4

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

Median, 2008–202575.4 bu/ac17 published years
Recent level, 2021–202567.4 bu/ac5 published years, high and low dropped
Lowest published year2011: 15.6 bu/ac21% of median
Trend, 2008–2025+1.0 bu/ac a year±2.8 (95% interval)

Crop insurance record

20072012201720220.333.031.521.00: claims equal premium

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$11.25
Loss ratio, 2016–20250.66claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20250.95$40.0 million paid
Years claims exceeded premium5 of 19
Worst year2009ratio 3.03
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025heat and drought 88% · excess moisture 5% · other 4%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

200020052010201520202025225142

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, 2000–2025431 of 1,357 weeks32% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks200651 weeks
Last five years, 2021–2025142 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202674.5 °F1991–2020 normal 73.3 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.49 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September18.1 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 100% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger1.2 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 20222%
Farmed no-till, 202210% of cropland7,794 ac
Cover crops, 20222% of cropland1,706 ac
198619911996200120062011201620210460

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac
Solar and wind operating, 20256.9 MW solar · 0 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860
Cattle and calves, 202244,026−9.9% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202234%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Guadalupe County$30—$5,94175.4$11.25
Bexar County$30$73$7,54078.6$16.08
Caldwell County$33—$4,814—$14.70
Comal County$13—$5,507——
Gonzales County$27—$4,484—$11.87
Hays County$27—$11,177—$19.97
Wilson County$31—$4,471—$17.64
Median next door$29$73 1 co.$5,16178.6 1 co.$16.08

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. Guadalupe County, Texas. 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/texas/guadalupe-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.