SIOUX COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Sioux County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Iowa for Alton, Boyden and Hospers. 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 Sioux County by the Numbers

Sioux County has 1,672 farms on 485,793 acres (about 291 acres each). Together they sold $2.3 billion of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hogs and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, potatoes and cucumbers. Beekeepers tend about 83 honey bee colonies.

35 farms in Sioux County already sell straight to the public, about $254,000 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 Sioux County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 1,460,697 hogs, 381,688 head of cattle and 9,906 sheep in Sioux County.

About 3,081 people run or help run farms in Sioux County, with an average age of 54. 29% of them are women. 423 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 1 farm earns money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Sioux County stands out: it ranks #1 of 99 IA counties for number of farms and #1 of 99 IA counties for total farm sales.