Michigan → Gratiot
Gratiot County, Michigan
Pasture here rented for $52 an acre in 2021. That's the 96th percentile among the 13 Michigan counties reporting that year, and the 93rd percentile nationally.
NASS has no 2026 pasture cash rent result for this county (suppressed or left out of the survey that year). The rate shown is from 2021, this county's most recent published year.
The record, computed from 9 archived USDA survey years, 2009–2021
Since 2009, this county's rate has risen 55 percent: $33.50 then, $52 in 2021. A lease left alone over that stretch has been repricing itself by default.
The counties next door
The comparison made at the kitchen table is with the neighbors. Every bordering county NASS tracks is listed at its most recent published rate.
| County | $/acre |
|---|---|
| Montcalm | $41 (2017) |
| Ionia | $38 (2025) |
| Midland | $26 (2010) |
| Shiawassee | $25 (2013) |
| Isabella | $20 (2025) |
Every year on record
| Year | $/acre |
|---|---|
| 2009 | $33.50 |
| 2010 | $24 |
| 2011 | $24 |
| 2012 | $28 |
| 2013 | $27 |
| 2016 | $26 |
| 2017 | $25.50 |
| 2020 | $40 |
| 2021 | $52 |
This page prints clean from your browser. Take it to the table.
Planned: the Gratiot County negotiation packet. A one-page brief
to hand across the table, lease terms as ranchers contribute them (water, fencing, maintenance, term
length) and the stocking-rate bridge between dollars per acre and per-head rates. The rates, the history
and the neighbors table above stay free. What's free today.