ADAMS COUNTY MARKET

Adams County, Illinois Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Camp Point, Clayton and La Prairie buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Illinois favorites like sweet corn and pumpkins show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Adams County by the Numbers

Adams County has 1,311 farms on 423,666 acres (about 323 acres each). Together they sold $409.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and pears, and local fields produce pumpkins and sweet corn. Beekeepers tend about 441 honey bee colonies.

43 farms in Adams County already sell straight to the public, about $1.2 million 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 Adams County

Adams County farms and homesteads keep 181,715 hogs, 31,426 head of cattle and 4,074 egg-laying hens.

About 2,259 people run or help run farms in Adams County, with an average age of 59. 27% of them are women. 234 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 25 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Adams County stands out: it ranks #3 of 94 IL counties for goats and #6 of 102 IL counties for number of farms.