Middlesex County, Virginia
Middlesex County, VA: non-irrigated cash rent $87 an acre (2026); land and buildings $4,041 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 147.5 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 51119. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Non-irrigated cash rent for 2026 in Middlesex County, VA runs $87 per acre. Census land value in 2022 stood at $4,041 per acre, with a change of 1.9 percent from 2017-2022, 0.4 percent a year. Corn yields trended up 4.3 bushels per acre a year over 2008-2025, with a median of 147.5 bushels per acre and a worst year of 71.3 in 2010. Heat and drought drove 66 percent of crop insurance indemnities across closed years, with the share at 89 percent in 1989-1999, 48 percent in 2000-2009, 75 percent in 2010-2019, and 89 percent in 2020-2025. Only 2 percent of harvested cropland was irrigated as of the 2022 census, and irrigation failure indemnities totaled $54,091 across all closed years.
VA median $47 · 13th highest of 84
VA median $4,596 · 31st lowest of 86
VA median 145.9 · 9th highest of 25
VA median $8.45 · 2nd lowest of 67
VA median 33% · 12th highest 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Middlesex County | $87 | $4,041 | 147.5 | $1.91 |
| Essex County | $95 | $4,252 | 140.6 | $4.77 |
| Gloucester County | $72 | $6,053 | — | $3.64 |
| King and Queen County | $83 | $3,460 | 133.6 | $5.03 |
| Mathews County | — | $6,440 | — | — |
| Median next door | $83 | $5,153 | 137.1 2 co. | $4.77 |
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. Middlesex 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/middlesex-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.