Dinwiddie County, Virginia
Dinwiddie County, VA: non-irrigated cash rent $72 an acre (2026); land and buildings $3,339 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 138.0 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 51053. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Non-irrigated cash rent in Dinwiddie County averages $72 per acre in 2026, up 82.3 percent from 2016. Heat and drought has driven $19.6 million in crop insurance indemnities since 1989, but its share of losses has moved down across the four decades measured: 89 percent in 1989-1999, 78 percent in 2000-2009, 62 percent in 2010-2019, and 55 percent in 2020-2025. The loss ratio over 2016-2025 was 0.41, below the 1989-2025 figure of 0.64. Severe drought weeks fell to 0 during 2021-2025, against 75 of 1357 weeks countywide since 2000.
VA median $47 · tied for 20th highest of 84
too few 2010 county surveys in the state to compare
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VA median 33% · 21st lowest of 90
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.
Land value
Corn yield
Bushels per acre, USDA NASS county yields, all practices. The dashed line is the median of the published years.
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.
Drought and weather
Weeks per year, U.S. Drought Monitor, with half the county or more in D2 (severe) drought or worse.
Land, water and programs
Acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, USDA FSA, by fiscal year.
Next door
| County | Dry rent | Land value | Corn yield | Claims per $100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dinwiddie County | $72 | $3,339 | — | $4.91 |
| Amelia County | $44 | $4,304 | 126.7 | $9.26 |
| Brunswick County | $30 2025 | $2,749 | — | $5.98 |
| Chesterfield County | $42 | $8,136 | — | $20.55 |
| Greensville County | $96 | $2,861 | — | $9.82 |
| Nottoway County | $37 | $4,440 | — | $8.40 |
| Petersburg City | — | — | — | — |
| Prince George County | $64 | $4,187 | — | $4.95 |
| Sussex County | $81 | $2,861 | — | $5.06 |
| Median next door | $54 | $4,187 | 126.7 1 co. | $8.40 |
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. Dinwiddie County, Virginia. 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/virginia/dinwiddie-countyEvery 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.