OSCEOLA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Osceola County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Iowa for Ashton, Harris and and Sibley. 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 Osceola County by the Numbers

Osceola County has 559 farms on 198,039 acres (about 354 acres each). Together they sold $699.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by hogs, corn and cattle.

Beekeepers tend about 19 honey bee colonies.

4 farms in Osceola County already sell straight to the public. 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 Osceola County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 476,361 hogs, 69,635 head of cattle and 2,561 sheep in Osceola County.

About 970 people run or help run farms in Osceola County, with an average age of 57. 31% of them are women. 107 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.

Where Osceola County stands out: it ranks #13 of 99 IA counties for total farm sales.