One place, all its numbers
Type a ZIP, a town, or a county. You get one page about that county: where it ranks in its state, what sits far from its neighbors, and this week’s bids, rain, drought and hail. Every number says where it came from.
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Try one: Chetek, WI 54728 · Champaign County, IL · Great Bend, KS 67530
This week
How it ranks in its state
One column per figure. A full column is the highest county in the state, an empty one the lowest; the dashed line is the middle.
The numbers, as a table
What’s unusual here
The long view
Questions
What does this page show?
One page about one county: a one-line summary built from the numbers, where the county ranks in its state on 17 figures (rent, land value, corn yield, insurance losses, drought, hail, rain, frost, tile, cover crops, CRP, cattle, wind and solar and more), the figures furthest from its neighbors, this week's bids, basis, rain, drought, hail and the next USDA report, and the long view by year.
Where do the numbers come from?
From public records AGSIST already reads for the Farmland Atlas, county rain, the drought and hail maps and cash bids: USDA NASS, the Census of Agriculture, USDA RMA, FSA, NOAA, the U.S. Drought Monitor, EIA and the elevator boards we read. Each figure on the page names its source and year.
What does a rank like 7th highest of 86 counties mean?
It is the county's place among the counties in its own state that carry that figure. Rent of $316 an acre at 7th highest of 86 Illinois counties means six Illinois counties report more. Ranks are among counties, never among fields, and a county with too few neighbors in the state to compare gets no rank.
Why is a number missing?
Because the source does not publish it for that county, or it is too thin to print. NASS holds back figures that would show one farm, and some surveys skip small counties. A missing number stays missing on this page and says why. Nothing is filled in or estimated.
Is this about my own field?
No. These are county figures. For one field, use Field Scout: soil, slope, flood zone, crop history and recorded sales near the field. For comparable land sales, use the free comparable sales report.
What do the role buttons do?
They put the sections you care about first and add one button to the tool that fits: cash bids for a farmer, Field Scout for a buyer or seller, the comparable sales report for a lender or appraiser, the hail report for an adjuster, the county sheet for a landowner. The choice stays in the link and on this device.
Sources
- County figures: the Farmland Atlas county files (USDA NASS cash rents and yields, Census of Agriculture, USDA RMA Summary of Business, FSA CRP, NOAA NCEI and nClimGrid, U.S. Drought Monitor, NOAA Storm Events, EIA 860). How each is built: Atlas methods.
- This week: county rain (NOAA daily station records), the Drought Monitor county statistics, National Weather Service hail reports (hail map), basis (AGSIST network elevators and USDA AgTransport), the USDA report calendar and the elevator boards we read.
- Place lookup: Open-Meteo geocoding for towns and ZIPs; county lines from the US Census cartographic boundary files.