Michigan → Mecosta
Mecosta County, Michigan
Pasture here rented for $38 an acre in 2025. That's the 62nd percentile among the 8 Michigan counties reporting that year, and the 75th 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 2025, this county's most recent published year.
The record, computed from 12 archived USDA survey years, 2009–2025
Since 2009, this county's rate has fallen 0 percent: $38 then, $38 in 2025.
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 |
|---|---|
| Clare | $45.50 (2025) |
| Montcalm | $41 (2017) |
| Newaygo | $25 (2010) |
| Osceola | $21 (2025) |
| Isabella | $20 (2025) |
Every year on record
| Year | $/acre |
|---|---|
| 2009 | $38 |
| 2010 | $28 |
| 2011 | $24 |
| 2012 | $28.50 |
| 2013 | $33.50 |
| 2014 | $37 |
| 2016 | $30 |
| 2017 | $25 |
| 2019 | $28.50 |
| 2020 | $34.50 |
| 2021 | $33.50 |
| 2025 | $38 |
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Planned: the Mecosta 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.