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Piute County, Utah

Piute County, UT: non-irrigated cash rent $32 an acre (2025); land and buildings $4,020 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 49031. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Irrigated cash rent in Piute County stands at $90 per acre in 2026, and non-irrigated rent is $32 per acre in 2025, up 128.6 percent since 2013. Irrigation covers 95 percent of harvested cropland, with only 4 percent of that water drawn from groundwater as of 2015. Drought has been present here: 392 of 1357 weeks from 2000-2025 saw severe drought or worse, and 2021-2025 alone logged 132 such weeks, with 2021 itself hitting 52 weeks. The July average nightly low has moved from 51.2 F (1991-2020 normal) to 52.6 F (2017-2026), part of a warming trend of 0.56 F per decade since 1976. Census land value reached $4,020 per acre in 2022, up 93.2 percent from 2017, or 14.1 percent a year.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$32/ac
2025 county average
too few 2025 county surveys in the state to compare
Cash rent, irrigated
$90/ac
2026 county average
UT median $107 · 5th lowest of 24
Land and buildings
$4,020/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
UT median $3,900 · 14th highest of 28
Corn yield, median
—
fewer than 8 published county corn yields
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
—
RMA Summary of Business has no rows for this county
Farmland rented
14%
2022 census, rented from others
UT median 22% · 7th lowest of 29

Cash rent

$0$20$40$60$80$1002010201520202025$30$32 dry$61$90 irrigated

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, 2025$32/ac
Change 2013 to 2025+128.6%nominal, $14 to $32
Irrigated, 2026$90/ac
Pasture, 2025$26/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$4,020/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$2,931/ac
Census 2017$2,081/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+93.2%+14.1% 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

20002005201020152020202505210

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, 2000–2025392 of 1,357 weeks29% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks202152 weeks
Last five years, 2021–2025132 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202652.6 °F1991–2020 normal 51.2 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.56 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September8.2 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 87% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.0 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 202295%
Drained by tile, 2022none reported
Farmed no-till, 20222% of cropland323 ac
Cover crops, 20223% of cropland486 ac

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac
Cattle and calves, 202218,375+3.1% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202214%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand value
Piute County$32 2025$90$4,020
Beaver County—$97 2024$3,779
Garfield County—$96$4,398
Sevier County$12$97$5,351
Wayne County$44 2025$117$10,311
Median next door$12 1 co.$97$4,875

Counties that share a stretch of boundary. An older rent carries its year and stays out of the median.

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AGSIST Farmland Atlas. Piute County, Utah. 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/utah/piute-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.