WELD COUNTY MARKET

Weld County, Colorado Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Weld County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Colorado for Ault, Briggsdale and Evans. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Weld County by the Numbers

Weld County has 3,881 farms on 1,987,213 acres (about 512 acres each). Together they sold $2.4 billion of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, dairy (milk) and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, pears and grapes, and local fields produce onions, pumpkins, squash and watermelons. Beekeepers tend about 2,160 honey bee colonies.

230 farms in Weld County already sell straight to the public, about $2.9 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 Weld County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 545,480 head of cattle, 129,426 sheep and 7,229 horses and ponies in Weld County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 7,350 people run or help run farms in Weld County, with an average age of 56. 40% of them are women. 744 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 44 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Weld County stands out: it ranks #1 of 63 CO counties for number of farms and #1 of 60 CO counties for total farm sales.