YUBA COUNTY MARKET

Yuba County, California Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Beale Afb, Browns Valley and Dobbins buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. California favorites like strawberries and apples show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Yuba County by the Numbers

Yuba County has 760 farms on 160,418 acres (about 211 acres each). Together they sold $253.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by rice, fruit & nuts and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow walnuts, plums and peaches, and local fields produce squash, cantaloupes, pumpkins and honeydew melons. Beekeepers tend about 11,818 honey bee colonies.

59 farms in Yuba County already sell straight to the public, about $1.6 million a year in direct sales. Crop Market gives them, and every backyard grower, a free way to reach more neighbors.

Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, 2022 Census of Agriculture.

Farm Life in Yuba County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 14,851 head of cattle, 3,618 egg-laying hens and 2,412 sheep in Yuba County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,475 people run or help run farms in Yuba County, with an average age of 59. 39% of them are women. 129 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 24 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.