JASPER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Jasper County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Illinois for Hidalgo, Newton and Willow Hill. Illinois favorites like pumpkins and apples show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Jasper County by the Numbers

Jasper County has 817 farms on 246,336 acres (about 302 acres each). Together they sold $262.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Beekeepers tend about 582 honey bee colonies.

10 farms in Jasper County already sell straight to the public, about $193,000 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 Jasper County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 157,196 hogs, 10,910 head of cattle and 389 egg-laying hens in Jasper County.

About 1,363 people run or help run farms in Jasper County, with an average age of 59. 29% of them are women. 97 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.

Where Jasper County stands out: it ranks #5 of 97 IL counties for honey bee colonies.