VAN BUREN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Birmingham, Bonaparte and Hillsboro buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Iowa favorites like pumpkins and honey show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Van Buren County by the Numbers

Van Buren County has 732 farms on 225,161 acres (about 308 acres each). Together they sold $150 million of farm products in 2022, led by hogs, corn and soybeans.

Beekeepers tend about 159 honey bee colonies.

10 farms in Van Buren County already sell straight to the public, about $51,000 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 Van Buren County

Van Buren County farms and homesteads keep 116,157 hogs, 19,164 head of cattle and 1,981 egg-laying hens.

About 1,384 people run or help run farms in Van Buren County, with an average age of 56. 35% of them are women. 218 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 7 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Van Buren County stands out: it ranks #11 of 96 IA counties for goats.