AUDUBON COUNTY MARKET

Audubon County, Iowa Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Audubon County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Iowa for Audubon, Brayton and and Kimballton. Iowa favorites like honey and sweet corn show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Audubon County by the Numbers

Audubon County has 593 farms on 256,116 acres (about 432 acres each). Together they sold $418.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by hogs, corn and soybeans.

Local fields produce green beans. Beekeepers tend about 32 honey bee colonies.

20 farms in Audubon County already sell straight to the public, about $175,000 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 Audubon County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 230,067 hogs, 28,496 head of cattle and 726 egg-laying hens in Audubon County.

About 1,016 people run or help run farms in Audubon County, with an average age of 59. 35% of them are women. 73 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 1 farm earns money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.