Michigan → Montcalm
Montcalm County, Michigan
Pasture here rented for $41 an acre in 2017. That's the 97th percentile among the 15 Michigan counties reporting that year, and the 85th 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 2017, this county's most recent published year.
The record, computed from 5 archived USDA survey years, 2009–2017
Since 2009, this county's rate has risen 11 percent: $37 then, $41 in 2017.
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 |
|---|---|
| Kent | $65 |
| Gratiot | $52 (2021) |
| Ionia | $38 (2025) |
| Mecosta | $38 (2025) |
| Newaygo | $25 (2010) |
| Isabella | $20 (2025) |
Every year on record
| Year | $/acre |
|---|---|
| 2009 | $37 |
| 2011 | $22.50 |
| 2012 | $30 |
| 2016 | $47 |
| 2017 | $41 |
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Planned: the Montcalm 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.