MDARD rotational survey · 2011–2022

County & district analysis

Second-order views of county trajectories, district contributions to decline, planting density, and recent renewal by cultivar.

Commercial growers
Updated 2026-07-22
Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) Fruit Inventory

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Second-order analyses linking county trajectories, district contributions to statewide decline, planting density, and recent renewal patterns by cultivar.

**County trajectories in farm count and peach acreage.** Arrows follow each county from earlier to later inventories.

**County structural change, 2011–2022.** Change in farm numbers versus change in peach acreage.

**County rank by reported peach acreage.** Rank movement among counties with separately published values.

**Average peach acreage per farm by district.** District acreage divided by the corresponding number of peach farms.

**District contributions to statewide acreage decline.** Reported acreage change from 2011 to 2022 by district.

**Which operation-size groups accounted for acreage loss?.** Change in reported peach acreage from 2011 to 2022 by farm size.

**Implied planting density of new peach acreage, 2020–2022.** Reported trees divided by reported acres for each planting category.

**Implied planting density by surviving orchard-age cohort.** Tree totals divided by acreage totals in the 2022 inventory.