WEBSTER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Webster County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Iowa for Badger, Barnum and Dayton. 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 Webster County by the Numbers

Webster County has 907 farms on 356,141 acres (about 393 acres each). Together they sold $456.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, hogs and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples and grapes, and local fields produce pumpkins, tomatoes, cucumbers and watermelons. Beekeepers tend about 112 honey bee colonies.

15 farms in Webster County already sell straight to the public, about $92,000 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 Webster County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Webster County counts 163,062 hogs, 10,380 head of cattle and 882 sheep.

About 1,550 people run or help run farms in Webster County, with an average age of 59. 31% of them are women. 148 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 8 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.