Minnesota → St. Louis

St. Louis County, Minnesota

Pasture here rented for $7.90 an acre in 2024. That's the 2nd percentile among the 28 Minnesota counties reporting that year, and the 12th 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 2024, this county's most recent published year.

The record, computed from 10 archived USDA survey years, 2010–2024
as of 2026-10-012024 surveymethodcompare your own rate

Across Minnesota's counties, the middle half of county averages in 2026 runs $22.12 to $53.88 an acre. Individual leases spread wider than county averages do, because grass, water, fencing and term length all move the price. An offer far outside this band should come with a reason the other side can say out loud.

Since 2010, this county's rate has fallen 2 percent: $8.10 then, $7.90 in 2024.

The counties next door

The comparison made at the kitchen table is with the neighbors. This year, rates across the county line go from $13 to $14.50 an acre. Every bordering county NASS tracks is listed at its most recent published rate.

County$/acre
Aitkin$14.50
Carlton$13
Koochiching$11 (2025)
Douglas, Wisconsin$11 (2022)
Itasca$10.50 (2024)

Every year on record

Year$/acre
2010$8.10
2011$5
2016$6.90
2017$9
2019$5
2020$11.50
2021$7.80
2022$22.50
2023$9.70
2024$7.90

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Planned: the St. Louis 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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