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Sawyer County, Wisconsin

Sawyer County, WI: non-irrigated cash rent $61 an acre (2026); land and buildings $3,335 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 139.2 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 55113. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Cash rent, non-irrigated
$61/ac
2026 county average
WI median $139 · 8th lowest of 67
Land and buildings
$3,335/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
WI median $5,565 · 5th lowest of 68
Rent as % of land value
1.69%
$57 dry rent ÷ $3,335 land and buildings, both 2022
Corn yield, 2008–2024 median
139.2 bu/ac
recent level 2020–2024: 148.7
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$5.01
2016–2025, closed crop years
WI median $5.09 · 32nd lowest of 65
Farmland rented
30%
2022 census, rented from others
WI median 33% · 22nd lowest of 68

Cash rent

$0$20$40$602010201520202025$31$61 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$61/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+72.9%nominal, $35 to $61
Dry rent per bushel of corn$0.41$61 ÷ 148.7 bu, county yield 2020–2024

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$3,335/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$2,293/ac
Census 2017$2,593/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+28.6%+5.2% a year, nominal
Dry cropland rent ÷ census value, 20221.69%$57 ÷ $3,335; cropland 50% of land in farms

Corn yield

20082010201220142016201820202022202495.0156.4median 139.2

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

Median, 2008–2024139.2 bu/ac13 published years
Recent level, 2020–2024148.7 bu/ac5 published years, high and low dropped
Lowest published year2008: 95.0 bu/ac68% of median
Trend, 2008–2024+1.7 bu/ac a year±1.8 (95% interval)

Crop insurance record

2011201620210.100.190.060.570.150.061.00: claims equal premium

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$5.01
Loss ratio, 2016–20250.30claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20250.67$12.0 million paid
Worst year2023ratio 0.57
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025heat and drought 50% · freeze 26% · excess moisture 14%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

2000200520102015202020250330

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, 2000–202593 of 1,357 weeks7% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks200933 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202521 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202655.5 °F1991–2020 normal 55.3 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.12 °F a decadeno clear direction
Rain, April to September23.3 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 100% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger1.8 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 2022— NASS suppressed the irrigated acres to protect individual farms
Drained by tile, 2022under 1% of cropland74 ac
Farmed no-till, 20227% of cropland1,459 ac
Cover crops, 20221% of cropland236 ac
1986199119962001200620112016202101470

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac
CRP average rental payment, FY2008$24/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer
Irrigation wells on record5Wisconsin DNR high-capacity wells (active sources)
Median well depth66 ft
Cattle and calves, 20226,077−11.2% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202230%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Sawyer County$61$3,335—$5.01
Ashland County$39$3,235—$8.59
Bayfield County$29$2,812—$18.33
Price County$37$3,063—$6.34
Rusk County$104$3,399132.1$10.25
Washburn County$68$3,842152.7$6.28
Median next door$39$3,235142.4 2 co.$8.59

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. Sawyer 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/sawyer-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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