MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Montgomery County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Illinois for Butler, Coffeen and Hillsboro. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Montgomery County by the Numbers

Montgomery County has 952 farms on 379,349 acres (about 398 acres each). Together they sold $446.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Beekeepers tend about 127 honey bee colonies.

12 farms in Montgomery County already sell straight to the public, about $9,000 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 Montgomery County

Montgomery County farms and homesteads keep 161,718 hogs, 7,189 head of cattle and 750 goats.

About 1,575 people run or help run farms in Montgomery County, with an average age of 60. 28% of them are women. 127 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 1 farm earns money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Montgomery County stands out: it ranks #8 of 94 IL counties for goats and #15 of 102 IL counties for total farm sales.