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Chippewa County, Michigan

Chippewa County, MI: non-irrigated cash rent $29 an acre (2026); land and buildings $2,840 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 26033. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in Chippewa County averages $29 per acre in 2026, up 61.1 percent from 2016. Census value of land and buildings stood at $2,840 per acre in 2022, with land value up 31.2 percent from 2017 to 2022, 5.6 percent a year. The July nightly low has moved from a 53.8 F normal (1991-2020) to 55 F over 2017-2026, part of a warming trend of 0.59 F per decade since 1976. Heat and drought caused 45 percent of crop insurance indemnities from 1993-2025, with that share at 49 percent in 2000-2009 and 42 percent in 2010-2019, while severe drought or worse covered the county in only 22 of 1357 weeks from 2000-2025.

Cash rent, non-irrigated

$29/ac

2026 county average
MI median $100 · 7th lowest of 70

Land and buildings

$2,840/ac

2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
MI median $5,270 · 4th lowest of 76

Rent as % of land value

0.53%

$15 dry rent ÷ $2,840 land and buildings, both 2022

Corn yield, median

—

fewer than 8 published county corn yields

Claims paid per $100 of coverage

—

under the premium floor for a figure

Farmland rented

23%

2022 census, rented from others
MI median 34% · 21st lowest of 78

Cash rent

Dollars per acre, USDA NASS county survey. A break in a line is a year with no published survey; nothing is drawn across it.

Non-irrigated, 2026$29/ac

Change 2016 to 2026+61.1%nominal, $18 to $29

Pasture, 2025$12/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$2,840/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price

Census 2012$1,622/ac

Census 2017$2,164/ac

Change 2017 to 2022+31.2%+5.6% a year, nominal

Dry cropland rent ÷ census value, 20220.53%$15 ÷ $2,840; cropland 62% of land in farms

Corn yield

County corn yield— fewer than 8 published county corn yields

Crop insurance record

Claims paid divided by total premium (the farmer share plus the federal subsidy), each closed crop year since 1989. Above the dashed line, the county's insurance book paid out more than it took in. 2026, still open, is left out.

Largest causes of loss, 1993–2025heat and drought 45% · excess moisture 31% · freeze 23%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

Weeks per year, U.S. Drought Monitor, with half the county or more in D2 (severe) drought or worse.

D2 or worse for half the county, 2000–202522 of 1,357 weeks2% of weeks

Year with the most D2+ weeks20058 weeks

Last five years, 2021–20255 weeks

July average of daily lows, 2017–202655.0 °F1991–2020 normal 53.8 °F

Trend in July lows since 1976+0.59 °F a decadewarming

Rain, April to September18.5 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 104% of it

Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.7 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 2022— NASS suppressed the irrigated acres to protect individual farms

Drained by tile, 2022under 1% of cropland184 ac

Farmed no-till, 20224% of cropland2,095 ac

Cover crops, 20223% of cropland1,386 ac

Acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, USDA FSA, by fiscal year.

CRP enrolled, 202515,472 ac29.4% of harvested cropland + CRP

CRP expiring FY2026–202818 ac0% of enrolled acres

CRP average rental payment, FY2025$15/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer

Irrigation wells on record48Michigan EGLE Wellogic water well records

Median well depth116 ft

Solar and wind operating, 20256.9 MW solar · 0 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860

Cattle and calves, 20223,757−32.6% since 2017

Farmland rented from others, 202223%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

County	Dry rent	Land value
Chippewa County	$29	$2,840
Luce County	$18	$3,109
Mackinac County	$20	$3,181
Median next door	$19 2 co.	$3,145 2 co.

Counties that share a stretch of boundary. An older rent carries its year and stays out of the median.

Cite this page

AGSIST Farmland Atlas. Chippewa County, Michigan. Figures as of 2026-09-20, from USDA NASS, USDA RMA, USDA FSA, the U.S. Drought Monitor and NOAA. https://agsist.com/farmland-atlas/michigan/chippewa-county

Every figure is a county average from the sources named below. Ranks count counties with 10,000 acres or more in farms, in the same survey year for rent, within the state. Methods: how each figure is built. Downloads: all counties, CSV.

Sources, dates and arithmetic

"Figures as of" is the date this page's numbers last changed; it moves only when a figure on the page does. Source files and their retrieval dates are listed on the data page.

Rent: USDA NASS Cash Rents Survey, county. Land value: Census of Agriculture, operators' estimate of land and buildings. Yield: NASS county corn yields, trend fitted here over every published year since 2008. Loss ratio: claims (indemnity) divided by total premium, USDA RMA Summary of Business, 1989 on, open crop year left out. Drought: U.S. Drought Monitor, weeks with half the county or more in D2 or worse. July lows: NOAA nClimDiv county monthly minimum temperature. A dash means the record does not carry the figure or the source withheld it; the reason is printed beside it.

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