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Emmet County, Michigan

Pasture here rented for $6.80 an acre in 2025. That's the 6th percentile among the 8 Michigan counties reporting that year, and the 9th percentile nationally.

NASS has no 2026 pasture cash rent result for this county (suppressed or not surveyed that year). Showing this county's most recent available year (2025) instead — not a 2026 figure.

The record, computed from 6 archived USDA survey years, 2009–2025
as of 2026-10-012025 surveymethodcompare your own rate

Since 2009, this county's rate has fallen 57 percent: $16 then, $6.80 in 2025. A lease that hasn't been revisited over that stretch has been repricing itself by default — just not on paper.

The counties next door

The comparison that actually gets made at the kitchen table isn't the state median — it's what the neighbors get. Every bordering county NASS tracks, at its most recent published rate:

County$/acre
Charlevoix$23 (2017)
Cheboygan$16.50 (2019)

Every year on record

Year$/acre
2009$16
2012$14
2014$13
2020$20
2021$17.50
2025$6.80

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Coming: the Emmet County negotiation packet. A one-page brief formatted to hand across the table, real lease terms as ranchers contribute them — water, fencing, who maintains what, term length — and the stocking-rate bridge between $/acre and per-head rates. The numbers, the history, and the neighbors table above stay free, always. What's free today.

Holding an offer for Emmet County ground? Compare it against this benchmark in your browser — your numbers never leave this device.