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Price County, Wisconsin

Price County, WI: non-irrigated cash rent $37 an acre (2026); land and buildings $3,063 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 122.6 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 55099. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in Price County runs $37 per acre, up 32.1 percent from 2016 to 2026. Land value sits at $3,063 per acre, up 24.6 percent from 2017 to 2022, or 4.5 percent a year. Corn yield trend is 2.5 bushels per acre a year over 2008-2025, with a median of 122.6 bushels per acre and a worst year of 86 in 2008. Drought has been minor: 86 of 1357 weeks since 2000 in severe drought or worse, and just 9 weeks over 2021-2025. Heat and drought's share of indemnities peaked in 2000-2009 at 44 percent, then fell to 6 percent in 2010-2019 and 3 percent in 2020-2025; freeze and frost remains the largest cause of losses at 50 percent.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$37/ac
2026 county average
WI median $139 · 4th lowest of 67
Land and buildings
$3,063/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
WI median $5,565 · 3rd lowest of 68
Dry rent per bushel of corn
$0.27
$37 ÷ 137.4 bu, recent yield 2021–2025
Corn yield, 2008–2025 median
122.6 bu/ac
recent level 2021–2025: 137.4
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$6.34
2016–2025, closed crop years
WI median $5.09 · 19th highest of 65
Farmland rented
22%
2022 census, rented from others
WI median 33% · 4th lowest of 68

Cash rent

$0$10$20$30$402010201520202025$30$37 dry

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$37/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+32.1%nominal, $28 to $37
Pasture, 2023$11/ac
Dry rent per bushel of corn$0.27$37 ÷ 137.4 bu, county yield 2021–2025

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$3,063/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$1,901/ac
Census 2017$2,459/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+24.6%+4.5% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 32% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield

20082010201220142016201820202022202486.0118.0114.8105.2125.0119.6126.8122.6134.6150.7151.8median 122.6

Bushels per acre, USDA NASS county yields, all practices. The dashed line is the median of the published years.

Median, 2008–2025122.6 bu/ac11 published years
Recent level, 2021–2025137.4 bu/ac5 published years, high and low dropped
Lowest published year2008: 86.0 bu/ac70% of median
Trend, 2008–2025+2.5 bu/ac a year±1.2 (95% interval)

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.

Claims paid per $100 of coverage, 2016–2025$6.34
Loss ratio, 2016–20250.80claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20250.83$6.8 million paid
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025freeze 50% · excess moisture 21% · hail 13%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

2000200520102015202020250400

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, 2000–202586 of 1,357 weeks6% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks200940 weeks
Last five years, 2021–20259 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202655.7 °F1991–2020 normal 55.3 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.28 °F a decadeno clear direction
Rain, April to September22.4 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 97% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger1.3 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 20221%
Farmed no-till, 20222% of cropland641 ac
Cover crops, 20223% of cropland664 ac
198619911996200120062011201620210470

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac
Irrigation wells on record2Wisconsin DNR high-capacity wells (active sources)
Median well depth65 ft
Solar and wind operating, 20253.9 MW solar · 0 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860
Cattle and calves, 202210,777−13.1% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202222%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Price County$37$3,063—$6.34
Ashland County$39$3,235—$8.59
Iron County—$4,086——
Lincoln County$70$3,790134.5$7.12
Oneida County$42 2024$5,553—$6.15
Rusk County$104$3,399132.1$10.25
Sawyer County$61$3,335—$5.01
Taylor County$118$3,710—$9.94
Vilas County———$3.65
Median next door$70$3,710133.3 2 co.$7.12

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. Price County, Wisconsin. 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/wisconsin/price-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.
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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.