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Ottawa County, Michigan

Pasture here rented for $36 an acre in 2014. That's the 61st percentile among the 19 Michigan counties reporting that year, and the 83rd 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 2014, this county's most recent published year.

The record, computed from 5 archived USDA survey years, 2009–2014
as of 2026-10-012014 surveymethodcompare your own rate

Since 2009, this county's rate has fallen 20 percent: $45 then, $36 in 2014. 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. This year, rates across the county line go from $45 to $65 an acre. Every bordering county NASS tracks is listed at its most recent published rate.

County$/acre
Kent$65
Racine, Wisconsin$56.50 (2021)
Allegan$45

Every year on record

Year$/acre
2009$45
2010$45
2012$35
2013$40.50
2014$36

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Planned: the Ottawa 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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