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Leelanau County, Michigan

Leelanau County, MI: non-irrigated cash rent $75 an acre (2026); land and buildings $10,286 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 95.8 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 26089. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Cash rent, non-irrigated

$75/ac

2026 county average
MI median $100 · 25th lowest of 70

Cash rent, irrigated

$252/ac

2026 county average
MI median $241 · 6th highest of 18

Land and buildings

$10,286/ac

2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
MI median $5,270 · 3rd highest of 76

Corn yield, 2008–2025 median

95.8 bu/ac

recent level 2021–2025: 100.6 · irrigated and dryland combined
MI median 153.0 · lowest of 45

Claims paid per $100 of coverage

$16.96

2016–2025, closed crop years
MI median $5.92 · 4th highest of 62

Farmland rented

18%

2022 census, rented from others
MI median 34% · 8th 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$75/ac

Change 2016 to 2026+44.2%nominal, $52 to $75

Irrigated, 2026$252/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$10,286/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price

Census 2012$6,731/ac

Census 2017$7,321/ac

Change 2017 to 2022+40.5%+7.0% a year, nominal

Dry rent ÷ census value— about 11% of cropland is irrigated (2022 census), so dry rent over the all-land census value is not a yield on anything

Corn yield

Bushels per acre, USDA NASS county yields, all practices. The dashed line is the median of the published years.

Median, 2008–202595.8 bu/ac16 published years, irrigated and dryland combined

Recent level, 2021–2025100.6 bu/ac5 published years, high and low dropped

Lowest published year2012: 48.3 bu/ac50% of median

Trend, 2008–2025+1.7 bu/ac a year±2.1 (95% interval)

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.

Claims paid per $100 of coverage, 2016–2025$16.96

Loss ratio, 2016–20251.24claims ÷ total premium

Loss ratio, 1989–20251.23$32.4 million paid

Years claims exceeded premium6 of 12

Worst year2019ratio 2.10

Largest causes of loss, 1994–2025freeze 67% · excess moisture 11% · price decline (revenue policies) 8%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, 2000–202511 of 1,357 weeks1% of weeks

Year with the most D2+ weeks20244 weeks

Last five years, 2021–20254 weeks

July average of daily lows, 2017–202660.0 °F1991–2020 normal 58.2 °F

Trend in July lows since 1976+0.76 °F a decadewarming

Rain, April to September18.0 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 101% of it

Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.5 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 202211%

Drained by tile, 20222% of cropland734 ac

Farmed no-till, 20227% of cropland2,066 ac

Cover crops, 20229% of cropland2,554 ac

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

CRP enrolled, 202510 ac

CRP expiring FY2026–202810 ac

Irrigation wells on record341Michigan EGLE Wellogic water well records

Median well depth172 ft

Solar and wind operating, 20252.8 MW solar · 0 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860

Cattle and calves, 20221,581+5.5% since 2017

Farmland rented from others, 202218%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

County	Dry rent	Irr. rent	Land value	Corn yield	Claims per $100
Leelanau County	$75	$252	$10,286	95.8	$16.96
Benzie County	$81	—	$6,283	—	$6.78
Grand Traverse County	$65	—	$9,197	113.2	$11.29
Median next door	$73 2 co.	—	$7,740 2 co.	113.2 1 co.	$9.04 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. Leelanau 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/leelanau-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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