Algoma

Description

The 2021 farm cash receipts for the district totaled $24.15 million, with $4 million fruit & vegetable production, and $3.8 million in cattle and calves. In 2021, Algoma yielded an average of 1.2 tons per acre of hay, 149 bushels per acre grain corn and 18 ton per acre of fodder corn.

Ag Overview

Based on the 2021 Census, there were 249 farms in Algoma, 11.2% decrease since 2016. Fruit and vegetable production has become the top sector in 2021, followed by cattle and calves, and dairy. Strawberries and sweet corn are the top fruit & vegetable produced. Hay is the most common field crop, followed by corn and oats.

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Climate and Soil

Algoma transitions from climate zone F in the south to G, H & I in the North and lies within plant hardiness zone 4b. Soils are predominantly shallow (generally under 2 feet deep) humo-ferric podzol, with the occasional exposed bedrock.

Growing Days:  1560
Avg Annual Precipitation:  950
Avg Frost Free Days:  140
Crop Heat Units:  2850

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