WORTH COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Worth County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Fertile, Grafton and Manly. Iowa favorites like honey and sweet corn show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Worth County by the Numbers

Worth County has 538 farms on 162,856 acres (about 303 acres each). Together they sold $167.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Local fields produce squash, pumpkins and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 135 honey bee colonies.

27 farms in Worth County already sell straight to the public, about $195,000 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 Worth County

Worth County farms and homesteads keep 40,699 hogs, 3,543 head of cattle and 1,704 egg-laying hens.

About 898 people run or help run farms in Worth County, with an average age of 57. 31% of them are women. 85 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 5 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.