RINGGOLD COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Ringgold County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Iowa for Benton, Diagonal and Redding. Watch for local apples when it comes into season in Iowa. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Ringgold County by the Numbers

Ringgold County has 612 farms on 311,401 acres (about 509 acres each). Together they sold $226.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by hogs, corn and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and sweet cherries. Beekeepers tend about 56 honey bee colonies.

7 farms in Ringgold County already sell straight to the public, about $26,000 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 Ringgold County

Ringgold County farms and homesteads keep 94,973 hogs, 42,718 head of cattle and 1,741 goats.

About 1,091 people run or help run farms in Ringgold County, with an average age of 59. 36% of them are women. 88 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 4 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Ringgold County stands out: it ranks #10 of 96 IA counties for goats.