BOONE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Boone County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Illinois for Belvidere, Caledonia and and Poplar Grove. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Boone County by the Numbers

Boone County has 416 farms on 124,244 acres (about 299 acres each). Together they sold $145.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and dairy (milk).

Local fields produce sweet corn, tomatoes, bell peppers and onions. Beekeepers tend about 82 honey bee colonies.

25 farms in Boone County already sell straight to the public. 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 Boone County

Boone County farms and homesteads keep 25,729 hogs, 4,824 head of cattle and 1,803 egg-laying hens.

About 711 people run or help run farms in Boone County, with an average age of 58. 32% of them are women. 64 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 3 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Boone County stands out: it ranks #9 of 94 IL counties for goats.