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Hillsdale County, Michigan

Pasture here rented for $48 an acre in 2009. That's the 81st percentile among the 31 Michigan counties reporting that year, and the 95th 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 2009, this county's most recent published year.

The record, computed from 1 archived USDA survey years, 2009–2009
too few years on record to draw a fair trend; the table below has what exists
as of 2026-10-012009 surveymethodcompare your own rate

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
Calhoun$81
Jackson$47.50 (2021)
Branch$42 (2010)
Steuben, Indiana$21 (2009)

Every year on record

Year$/acre
2009$48

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Planned: the Hillsdale 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.

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