Farmland Atlas · county record

Shelby County, Texas

Shelby County, TX: non-irrigated cash rent $18 an acre (2026); land and buildings $3,584 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 48419. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in Shelby County is $18 per acre, up 2.9 percent from 2016 to 2026. Land value in 2022 was $3,584 per acre, up 2.2 percent from 2017 to 2022, 0.4 percent a year. July nightly lows averaged 72.7 F over 2017-2026, against a 72.2 F normal for 1991-2020, with a warming trend of 0.45 F per decade since 1976. Drought hit 50 percent of the county or worse in 167 of 1357 weeks from 2000-2025, with 52 weeks in 2011 alone and 39 weeks from 2021-2025. Irrigation covers 2 percent of harvested cropland, all from groundwater. No solar or wind capacity operates or is proposed here.

Cash rent, non-irrigated

$18/ac

2026 county average
TX median $27 · tied for 26th lowest of 189

Land and buildings

$3,584/ac

2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
TX median $2,782 · 95th highest of 246

Rent as % of land value

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not shown: cropland is 14% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield, median

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fewer than 8 published county corn yields

Claims paid per $100 of coverage

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RMA Summary of Business has no rows for this county

Farmland rented

46%

2022 census, rented from others
TX median 39% · 80th highest of 251

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.

Non-irrigated, 2026$18/ac

Change 2016 to 2026+2.9%nominal, $18 to $18

Pasture, 2026$15/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$3,584/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price

Census 2012$2,927/ac

Census 2017$3,507/ac

Change 2017 to 2022+2.2%+0.4% a year, nominal

Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 14% 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

Premium and payouts— RMA Summary of Business has no rows for this county

Drought and weather

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, 2000–2025167 of 1,357 weeks12% of weeks

Year with the most D2+ weeks201152 weeks

Last five years, 2021–202539 weeks

July average of daily lows, 2017–202672.7 °F1991–2020 normal 72.2 °F

Trend in July lows since 1976+0.45 °F a decadewarming

Rain, April to September25.1 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 118% 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%

Drained by tile, 20225% of cropland1,800 ac

Farmed no-till, 20223% of cropland881 ac

Cover crops, 20221% of cropland476 ac

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac

Cattle and calves, 202243,650+0.7% since 2017

Farmland rented from others, 202246%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

County	Dry rent	Land value
Shelby County	$18	$3,584
De Soto Parish, LA	$30	$3,577
Sabine Parish, LA	$21	$3,692
Nacogdoches County	$18	$4,382
Panola County	$14	$3,130
Rusk County	$15	$3,819
Sabine County	—	$4,564
San Augustine County	$16 2023	$4,336
Median next door	$18	$3,819

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. Shelby 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/shelby-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.

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