LIVINGSTON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Livingston County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Illinois for Ancona, Blackstone and Dwight. 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 Livingston County by the Numbers

Livingston County has 1,448 farms on 606,271 acres (about 419 acres each). Together they sold $712.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow peaches, and local fields produce potatoes, sweet corn, tomatoes and asparagus. Beekeepers tend about 112 honey bee colonies.

38 farms in Livingston County already sell straight to the public, about $243,000 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 Livingston County

Livingston County farms and homesteads keep 193,557 hogs, 110,759 turkeys and 10,647 head of cattle.

About 2,416 people run or help run farms in Livingston County, with an average age of 59. 24% of them are women. 228 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 Livingston County stands out: it ranks #3 of 102 IL counties for total farm sales and #4 of 102 IL counties for number of farms.