YUMA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Yuma County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Colorado for Eckley, Hale and Vernon. 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 Yuma County by the Numbers

Yuma County has 826 farms on 1,511,087 acres (about 1,829 acres each). Together they sold $1.1 billion of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, corn and hogs.

Beekeepers tend about 73 honey bee colonies.

14 farms in Yuma County already sell straight to the public, about $698,000 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 Yuma County

Yuma County farms and homesteads keep 255,184 head of cattle, 1,688 goats and 1,161 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,594 people run or help run farms in Yuma County, with an average age of 57. 37% of them are women. 155 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 15 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Yuma County stands out: it ranks #2 of 60 CO counties for total farm sales and #6 of 54 CO counties for goats.