BREMER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Bremer, Denver and Readlyn buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Bremer County by the Numbers

Bremer County has 1,009 farms on 240,688 acres (about 239 acres each). Together they sold $337.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce sweet corn, squash, watermelons and onions. Beekeepers tend about 503 honey bee colonies.

27 farms in Bremer County already sell straight to the public, about $443,000 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 Bremer County

Bremer County farms and homesteads keep 293,030 turkeys, 229,788 hogs and 16,877 head of cattle.

About 1,825 people run or help run farms in Bremer County, with an average age of 57. 33% of them are women. 135 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 4 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Bremer County stands out: it ranks #8 of 93 IA counties for honey bee colonies and #13 of 95 IA counties for selling food straight to the public.