FLOYD COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Floyd County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Charles City, Floyd and and Rudd. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Floyd County by the Numbers

Floyd County has 989 farms on 301,797 acres (about 305 acres each). Together they sold $454.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, hogs and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and pears, and local fields produce pumpkins, squash, tomatoes and sweet corn. Beekeepers tend about 107 honey bee colonies.

24 farms in Floyd County already sell straight to the public, about $267,000 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 Floyd County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 222,565 hogs, 125,534 egg-laying hens and 19,139 head of cattle in Floyd County.

About 1,702 people run or help run farms in Floyd County, with an average age of 57. 34% of them are women. 260 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.

Where Floyd County stands out: it ranks #10 of 74 IA counties for egg-laying hens.