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Menominee County, Michigan

Menominee County, MI: non-irrigated cash rent $23 an acre (2026); land and buildings $3,061 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 112.1 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 26109. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Cash rent, non-irrigated
$23/ac
2026 county average
MI median $100 · 5th lowest of 70
Land and buildings
$3,061/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
MI median $5,270 · 6th lowest of 76
Rent as % of land value
1.05%
$32 dry rent ÷ $3,061 land and buildings, both 2022
Corn yield, 2008–2023 median
112.1 bu/ac
recent level 2019–2023: 112.5
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$17.40
2016–2025, closed crop years
MI median $5.92 · 3rd highest of 62
Farmland rented
38%
2022 census, rented from others
MI median 34% · 34th highest of 78

Cash rent

$0$10$20$302010201520202025$24$23 dry

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$23/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+2.3%nominal, $22 to $23
Dry rent per bushel of corn$0.20$23 ÷ 112.5 bu, county yield 2019–2023

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$3,061/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$2,006/ac
Census 2017$2,125/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+44.0%+7.6% a year, nominal
Dry cropland rent ÷ census value, 20221.05%$32 ÷ $3,061; cropland 64% of land in farms

Corn yield

2008201020122014201620182020202276.068.0135.566.3140.0132.873.2134.591.3133.6median 112.1

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

Median, 2008–2023112.1 bu/ac10 published years
Recent level, 2019–2023112.5 bu/ac4 published years, high and low dropped
Lowest published year2011: 66.3 bu/ac59% of median
Trend, 2008–2023+2.2 bu/ac a year±4.4 (95% interval)

Crop insurance record

20082013201820231.831.840.051.00: claims equal premium

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$17.40
Loss ratio, 2016–20250.75claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20250.98$33.5 million paid
Years claims exceeded premium8 of 18
Worst year2019ratio 1.84
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025heat and drought 57% · excess moisture 22% · freeze 16%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

2000200520102015202020250280

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, 2000–202570 of 1,357 weeks5% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks200928 weeks
Last five years, 2021–20255 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202656.2 °F1991–2020 normal 55.3 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.37 °F a decadeno clear direction
Rain, April to September19.5 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 105% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.9 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 20220%
Drained by tile, 20224% of cropland1,801 ac
Farmed no-till, 202212% of cropland5,774 ac
Cover crops, 20224% of cropland1,951 ac
198619911996200120062011201620213774681

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

CRP enrolled, 202581 ac
Irrigation wells on record70Michigan EGLE Wellogic water well records
Median well depth95 ft
Cattle and calves, 202216,996+5.5% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202238%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Menominee County$23$3,061—$17.40
Delta County$20$2,340—$17.86
Dickinson County$22 2025$3,012—$12.07
Marquette County—$3,434——
Marinette County, WI$124$5,176134.1$5.85
Median next door$72 2 co.$3,223134.1 1 co.$12.07

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

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AGSIST Farmland Atlas. Menominee 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/menominee-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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