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Knox County farmland

$149 an acre a year

Cash rent for non-irrigated cropland, USDA NASS county survey, 2025

Cash rent in Knox County

What a farmer pays a landowner a year for an acre, from the USDA's county survey: the latest year NASS published for each kind of land.

Cash rent per acre a year in Knox County
LandRent an acreYearIn 2022
Cropland, non-irrigated$1492025$129
Pasture$462026Not published by NASS

Cash rent in Knox County since 2008

Cropland and pasture rent an acre a year, every year the USDA's county survey published, newest first. "Not published" is a year NASS skipped or pooled the county; it is left blank, not estimated.

Cash rent per acre a year in Knox County, by survey year: non-irrigated cropland, irrigated cropland, pasture
YearNon-irrigatedPasture
2026Not published$46
2025$149$43
2024$139$32.50
2023$157$28
2022$129Not published
2021$132$50
2020$123$50.50
2019$130$51
2018Not publishedNot published
2017$116$39
2016$109$39.50
2015Not publishedNot published
2014$107$36
2013$103$32.50
2012$79.50$30
2011$70$35.50
2010Not published$33
2009Not published$36.50
2008$79Not published

What farmland in Knox County is worth

  • Farmland value, land and buildings$7,956 an acreAverage per farm acre, 2022 Census of Agriculture
  • Land in farms184,283 acres2022 Census of Agriculture

Crop yields in Knox County

Bushels an acre harvested, from the USDA's county crop estimates.

County crop yields in Knox County
CropYield an acreYearFive-year averageAcres harvested
Corn177.7 bu2025184.2 bu48,300
Soybeans55.6 bu202554.2 bu58,700
Winter wheat80.6 bu202583.8 bu4,280

Satellite crop map of Knox County's farm parcels, 2025

Share of the acres of the county's 8,461 parcels coded as farm use, by the class the USDA Cropland Data Layer (a satellite land-cover map) gives each parcel's center. Land cover, not planted acres.

  • Mapped as soybeans24%
  • Mapped as grass and pasture23%
  • Mapped as corn20%
  • Mapped as alfalfa1.8%
  • Mapped as winter wheat1.1%
  • Mapped as pop or Orn Corn0.8%
  • Mapped as other crops2.4%
  • Not cropland at the center (woods, water, buildings)26%

USDA Cropland Data Layer 2025, shares of farm-parcel acres

Farmland in nearby counties

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About these numbersSources, dates and how these figures are built

Cash rent

USDA NASS county cash rents survey, released Aug 21, 2026. NASS withholds a county's figure when too few farms answer. Public domain.

Land value

USDA NASS 2022 Census of Agriculture, released Feb 13, 2024. Public domain.

Crop yields

USDA NASS county crop estimates, Quick Stats file of Oct 31, 2026. Public domain.

Satellite crop map

USDA NASS Cropland Data Layer 2025, a satellite land-cover map, read at each farm parcel's map point (the most common class of the 3 by 3 cells around it); parcels whose land type on the county roll is agricultural; read Oct 18, 2026. Shares are of those parcels' acres, each parcel counted whole under the class at its center, so they are not planted acres: USDA's planted and harvested acreage is the NASS county estimate (the yields table where it prints). Public domain.

Data edition

Figures as of Oct 31, 2026. Area figures, not any one parcel's.