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Bedford County farmland

$81.50 an acre a year

Cash rent for non-irrigated cropland, USDA NASS county survey, 2026

Cash rent in Bedford 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 Bedford County
LandRent an acreYearIn 2022
Cropland, non-irrigated$81.502026$74.50
Pasture$202026$23.50

Cash rent in Bedford 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 Bedford County, by survey year: non-irrigated cropland, irrigated cropland, pasture
YearNon-irrigatedPasture
2026$81.50$20
2025$83.50$24.50
2024$87.50Not published
2023$80.50$19.50
2022$74.50$23.50
2021$68$23
2020$60.50$25
2019$60$24
2018Not publishedNot published
2017$70$22
2016$63$19
2015Not publishedNot published
2014$61$17
2013$59.50$20
2012$56$19
2011$36$19
2010$41$19
2009Not published$21
2008$41$23

What farmland in Bedford County is worth

  • Farmland value, land and buildings$6,187 an acreAverage per farm acre, 2022 Census of Agriculture
  • Land in farms236,001 acres2022 Census of Agriculture

Crop yields in Bedford County

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

County crop yields in Bedford County
CropYield an acreYearFive-year averageAcres harvested
Corn160.6 bu2025145.2 bu8,190
Soybeans45 bu202543.9 bu12,900
Winter wheat66.1 bu202562.8 bu2,180

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

Share of the acres of the county's 3,909 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 grass and pasture60%
  • Mapped as soybeans4.6%
  • Mapped as corn3.3%
  • Mapped as winter wheat, then soybeans1.2%
  • Mapped as fallow or idle cropland0.8%
  • Mapped as hay (not alfalfa)0.7%
  • Not cropland at the center (woods, water, buildings)29%

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

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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.