GRUNDY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Beaman, Conrad and Reinbeck buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Iowa favorites like pumpkins and honey show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Grundy County by the Numbers

Grundy County has 670 farms on 320,623 acres (about 479 acres each). Together they sold $486.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Local fields produce sweet corn, cucumbers, rhubarb and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 34 honey bee colonies.

15 farms in Grundy County already sell straight to the public, about $140,000 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 Grundy County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 216,487 hogs, 9,419 head of cattle and 1,944 sheep in Grundy County.

About 1,201 people run or help run farms in Grundy County, with an average age of 59. 29% of them are women. 114 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.