Farmland Atlas · county record

Val Verde County, Texas

Val Verde County, TX: land and buildings $1,000 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 48465. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Cash rent, non-irrigated
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NASS published no non-irrigated cash rent for this county
Land and buildings
$1,000/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
TX median $2,782 · 2nd lowest of 246
Rent as % of land value
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not shown: NASS published no non-irrigated cash rent for this county in 2022
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
44%
2022 census, rented from others
TX median 39% · 92nd highest of 251

Cash rent

Cash rent— NASS published no non-irrigated cash rent for this county

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$1,000/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$570/ac
Census 2017$1,008/ac
Change 2017 to 2022−0.8%−0.2% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— NASS published no non-irrigated cash rent for this county in 2022

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

200020052010201520202025405334

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, 2000–2025491 of 1,357 weeks36% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks201353 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202596 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202674.3 °F1991–2020 normal 73.7 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.48 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September12.1 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 96% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger3.0 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 202291%
Drained by tile, 2022none reported
Farmed no-till, 2022none reported
Cover crops, 20221% of cropland54 ac
198619911996200120062011201620210849382

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

CRP enrolled, 2025382 ac19.4% of harvested cropland + CRP
CRP expiring FY2026–20280 ac0% of enrolled acres
CRP average rental payment, FY2025$25/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer
Solar and wind operating, 20250 MW solar · 149.3 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860
Cattle and calves, 202211,537+25.9% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202244%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentLand value
Val Verde County—$1,000
Crockett County—$1,050
Edwards County—$1,467
Kinney County$11$1,573
Sutton County$8 2024$1,268
Terrell County—$1,263
Median next door$11 1 co.$1,268

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. Val Verde 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/val-verde-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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