LOUISA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Columbus City, Columbus Junctio and Oakville buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Louisa County by the Numbers

Louisa County has 597 farms on 188,748 acres (about 316 acres each). Together they sold $261.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by hogs, corn and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and pears. Beekeepers tend about 89 honey bee colonies.

15 farms in Louisa County already sell straight to the public, about $98,000 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 Louisa County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Louisa County counts 330,842 hogs, 4,262 head of cattle and 916 sheep.

About 1,118 people run or help run farms in Louisa County, with an average age of 60. 33% of them are women. 75 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 2 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.