CEDAR COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Cedar County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Bennett, Clarence and Stanwood. 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 Cedar County by the Numbers

Cedar County has 912 farms on 366,548 acres (about 402 acres each). Together they sold $490.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow chestnuts, walnuts and peaches, and local fields produce tomatoes, bell peppers, chile peppers and potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 31 honey bee colonies.

28 farms in Cedar County already sell straight to the public, about $1.2 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 Cedar County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 265,422 hogs, 17,876 head of cattle and 1,551 egg-laying hens in Cedar County.

About 1,691 people run or help run farms in Cedar County, with an average age of 59. 35% of them are women. 121 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 5 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Cedar County stands out: it ranks #4 of 95 IA counties for selling food straight to the public.