GOODING COUNTY MARKET

Gooding County, Idaho Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Gooding County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Idaho for Bliss, Gooding and and Wendell. Idaho favorites like apples and cherries show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Gooding County by the Numbers

Gooding County has 499 farms on 212,600 acres (about 426 acres each). Together they sold $1.1 billion of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), cattle and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, and local fields produce potatoes, onions, sweet corn and cucumbers. Beekeepers tend about 11,311 honey bee colonies.

6 farms in Gooding County already sell straight to the public, about $44,000 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 Gooding County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Gooding County counts 346,237 head of cattle, 1,328 goats and 838 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 952 people run or help run farms in Gooding County, with an average age of 55. 34% of them are women. 132 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 2 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Gooding County stands out: it ranks #3 of 44 ID counties for total farm sales and #5 of 41 ID counties for goats.