BOONE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Boone County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Boone, Boxholm and and Pilot Mound. Watch for local sweet corn when it comes into season in Iowa. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Boone County by the Numbers

Boone County has 1,008 farms on 333,540 acres (about 331 acres each). Together they sold $396 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce green peas, sweet corn, cucumbers and potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 204 honey bee colonies.

43 farms in Boone County already sell straight to the public, about $289,000 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 Boone County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Boone County counts 131,991 hogs, 12,705 egg-laying hens and 12,052 head of cattle.

About 1,770 people run or help run farms in Boone County, with an average age of 57. 35% of them are women. 192 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.