PALO ALTO COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Palo Alto County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Iowa for Ayrshire, Curlew and Mallard. Iowa favorites like apples and pumpkins show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Palo Alto County by the Numbers

Palo Alto County has 842 farms on 360,741 acres (about 428 acres each). Together they sold $783.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by hogs, corn and soybeans.

Local fields produce sweet corn. Beekeepers tend about 16 honey bee colonies.

8 farms in Palo Alto County already sell straight to the public, about $180,000 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 Palo Alto County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 791,666 hogs, 24,105 head of cattle and 559 goats in Palo Alto County.

About 1,569 people run or help run farms in Palo Alto County, with an average age of 60. 30% of them are women. 139 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.

Where Palo Alto County stands out: it ranks #9 of 99 IA counties for total farm sales.