2022 updates
- Minnesota pasture rented for cash averaged $27 per acre, up $1 from 2021.
- Dodge County had the highest published cash rent for non-irrigated cropland at $268 per acre, followed by Martin at $265 per acre, and Wabasha at $259 per acre.
- Renville and Wacesa rounded out the top five.
- Dodge County reported the highest published pasture cash rent at $67.50 per acre.
- Pipestone and Rock followed at $66.50 per acre with Fillmore at $55.5 and Jackson at $54 per acre.
- Lincoln had the fifth-highest pasture rent at $53.5 per acre.
Cropland and pasture rental rates by Minnesota county including regional average
County/Region | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2017 | 2016 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Becker | 21 | 17 | 11 | 17 | 22 | 19 |
Clay | NA | 26 | 23.5 | 19 | 20.5 | 18 |
Clearwater | 11.5 | 12.5 | 12.5 | 15.5 | 12.5 | 12 |
Kittson | NA | 10.5 | 11 | 13 | 10.5 | 11.5 |
Mahnomen | NA | 11.5 | 19.5 | 12 | 12.5 | 13 |
Marshall | NA | 17 | 11.5 | NA | 29 | NA |
Norman | 11.5 | 19 | 14.5 | 17 | NA | 20.5 |
Pennington | NA | NA | 25.5 | NA | NA | NA |
Polk | 16.5 | 11.5 | 14 | 15 | 13 | 19 |
Red Lake | 16.5 | NA | 21.5 | 18.5 | NA | 22.5 |
Roseau | 15 | 22.5 | 17.5 | 16.5 | 15 | 13 |
Northwest | 13.5 | 15.5 | 17 | 16 | ||
Beltrami | 10.5 | 15 | 17 | 10 | 13.5 | 12.5 |
Cass | 15 | 19.5 | 16 | 17 | 9 | 13 |
Hubbard | 6.9 | 7.2 | NA | NA | 12 | 9.2 |
Itasca | NA | 17.5 | 11.5 | NA | NA | 9.3 |
Koochiching | NA | 10.2 | 17 | NA | NA | NA |
Lake of the Woods | NA | NA | NA | 8.5 | 6 | NA |
North Central | 16 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 13 | ||
Cook | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Lake | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
St Louis | NA | 7.8 | 11.5 | 5 | 9 | 6.9 |
Northeast | 11.5 | 5 | 9 | 6.9 | ||
Big Stone | 51 | 35 | NA | 52 | 28.5 | 29 |
Chippewa | 30.5 | NA | 40 | 32.5 | 25.5 | 27 |
Douglas | NA | NA | 29.5 | 29 | 20 | 16 |
Grant | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Lac Qui Parle | 37.5 | 39 | 39 | 58 | 71 | 64.5 |
Otter Tail | 13.5 | 18.5 | 21.5 | 18 | 14 | 13.5 |
Pope | 21.5 | 40.5 | 29 | 41 | 43.5 | 30.5 |
Stevens | 32.5 | NA | NA | 43 | 50 | NA |
Swift | 30 | 35 | 35.5 | 44 | 55 | 60.5 |
Traverse | NA | NA | NA | NA | 30 | 36.5 |
Wilkin | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Yellow Medicine | NA | 49.5 | 38.5 | 22.5 | NA | NA |
West Central | 27.5 | 34 | 42.5 | 43 | ||
Benton | 25.5 | 26 | 26 | 27 | 22 | 19.5 |
Carver | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Kandiyohi | NA | NA | NA | 60 | 36.5 | 46.5 |
McLeod | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 37 |
Meeker | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Morrison | 24.5 | 21.5 | NA | NA | 20 | 14 |
Renville | NA | NA | 39.5 | NA | NA | NA |
Scott | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 41.5 |
Sherburne | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 28.5 |
Sibley | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 25.5 |
Stearns | 28 | 22 | NA | 26.5 | 37 | 51 |
Todd | 20 | 17.5 | 16.5 | 27.5 | 23 | 27.5 |
Wadena | 21.5 | 18 | 13.5 | NA | 12 | 23 |
Wright | NA | 28.5 | NA | 47.5 | 35 | NA |
Central | 20 | 24 | 27 | 28 | ||
Aitkin | NA | NA | 10 | 11.5 | 14.5 | 10 |
Anoka | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Carlton | 5 | 6.5 | NA | 6 | 6 | 5.4 |
Chisago | NA | NA | NA | 39.5 | 19 | 23 |
Crow Wing | 11.5 | 11 | 15.5 | 13 | 16 | 13 |
Hennepin | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Isanti | NA | 14 | 11.5 | 14 | 12.5 | 11 |
Kanabec | NA | 12.5 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 16.5 | 21 |
Mille Lacs | 19.5 | 25.5 | 17.5 | NA | 19.5 | 15.5 |
Pine | 15 | 25.5 | 19.5 | 24.5 | 15 | 10 |
Washington | 25 | 30.5 | 46.5 | 39 | 32 | 28 |
East Central | 15.5 | 16.5 | 15.5 | 12.5 | ||
Cottonwood | NA | 45 | 47 | 31 | NA | 49.5 |
Jackson | 54 | 34.5 | 41.5 | 43 | 41 | 44 |
Lincoln | 53.5 | 55 | 48.5 | 58.5 | 46 | 54 |
Lyon | 39.5 | 40 | 41 | 56.5 | 41 | 43.5 |
Murray | NA | 52.5 | 54.5 | 57 | 51 | 58 |
Nobles | 66.5 | 47.5 | 62.5 | 58 | 60 | 57.5 |
Pipestone | NA | 67 | 59.5 | 63 | 51.5 | 50 |
Redwood | NA | NA | 50 | 36.5 | 48 | NA |
Rock | 66.5 | 62 | 68.5 | 56 | 61 | 74.5 |
Southwest | 55 | 53.5 | 51 | 51.5 | ||
Blue Earth | NA | NA | 60 | 60 | NA | 57.5 |
Brown | 25 | NA | 55 | 55 | NA | 49 |
Faribault | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Freeborn | NA | 61 | 56.5 | 56.5 | 40.5 | 41.5 |
Le Sueur | 49 | 35.5 | 62.5 | 62.5 | 33 | 38.5 |
Martin | 21.5 | 30.5 | 38 | 38 | 50 | NA |
Nicollet | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Rice | 52.5 | 58 | NA | NA | 56.5 | 23 |
Steele | 26.5 | 31.5 | 42 | 42 | 46.5 | NA |
Waseca | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Watonwan | 41 | NA | NA | NA | 36 | 31 |
South Central | 52.5 | 52.5 | 44.5 | 39 | ||
Dakota | NA | 50 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Dodge | 67.5 | 61 | NA | NA | NA | 27 |
Fillmore | 55.5 | 42 | 36.5 | 36.5 | 38 | NA |
Goodhue | NA | 48 | NA | NA | NA | 23 |
Houston | 41.5 | 31 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 23 |
Mower | 41.5 | 46.5 | NA | NA | 5 | 23.5 |
Olmsted | 34.5 | 40 | 46 | 46 | 42 | 35.5 |
Wabasha | NA | 48.5 | 46.5 | 46.5 | 30 | 32 |
Winona | NA | 42 | 36.5 | 36.5 | 37 | 30 |
Southeast | 37.5 | 37.5 | 38 | 35 | ||
Minnesota | 27 | 26 | 24 | 28 | 30 | 30 |
Reviewed in 2023