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Hemphill County, Texas

Hemphill County, TX: non-irrigated cash rent $23 an acre (2026); land and buildings $1,181 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 48211. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in Hemphill County averages $23 per acre in 2026, up 53.3 percent from 2016. Land value under the census estimate stands at $1,181 per acre, with a 6 percent change from 2017 to 2022. Crop insurance losses since 1989 total $5.3 million, with heat and drought the largest cause at 74 percent of that total. That share moved 64 percent, 76 percent, 81 percent, and 63 percent across the four periods measured, so no steady direction holds. Groundwater supplied 100 percent of irrigation water in 2015, and irrigated rent was last recorded at $60 per acre in 2017.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$23/ac
2026 county average
TX median $27 · tied for 65th lowest of 189
Cash rent, irrigated
$60/ac
2017 county average
too few 2017 county surveys in the state to compare
Land and buildings
$1,181/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
TX median $2,782 · 14th lowest of 246
Corn yield, median
—
fewer than 8 published county corn yields
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$30.06
2016–2025, closed crop years
TX median $29.48 · 85th highest of 174
Farmland rented
46%
2022 census, rented from others
TX median 39% · 81st highest of 251

Cash rent

$0$10$202010201520202025$12$23 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$23/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+53.3%nominal, $15 to $23
Irrigated, 2017$60/ac
Pasture, 2026$9/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$1,181/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$740/ac
Census 2017$1,114/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+6.0%+1.2% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 5% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield

County corn yield— fewer than 8 published county corn yields

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$30.06
Loss ratio, 2016–20251.25claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20251.13$5.3 million paid
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025heat and drought 74% · excess moisture 12% · hail 6%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

2000200520102015202020255485

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, 2000–2025287 of 1,357 weeks21% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks201448 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202547 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202668.7 °F1991–2020 normal 68.0 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.32 °F a decadeno clear direction
Rain, April to September16.0 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 105% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger2.7 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 2022— NASS published no harvested cropland for this county
Drained by tile, 2022none reported
Farmed no-till, 20225% of cropland1,585 ac
198619911996200120062011201620211,01519,3655,780

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

CRP enrolled, 20255,780 ac
CRP expiring FY2026–2028256 ac4% of enrolled acres
CRP average rental payment, FY2025$21/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer
Cattle and calves, 202257,869−11.9% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202246%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueClaims per $100
Hemphill County$23—$1,181$30.06
Ellis County, OK$24$100$1,200$25.62
Roger Mills County, OK$29—$1,374$27.98
Lipscomb County$19$113$1,349$19.74
Roberts County——$950$13.31
Wheeler County$21—$1,373$22.75
Median next door$23$107 2 co.$1,349$22.75

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. Hemphill 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/hemphill-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.