OGLE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Ogle County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Illinois for Baileyville, Byron and Egan. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Ogle County by the Numbers

Ogle County has 919 farms on 351,824 acres (about 383 acres each). Together they sold $476.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Local fields produce green peas, sweet corn, pumpkins and green beans. Beekeepers tend about 93 honey bee colonies.

32 farms in Ogle County already sell straight to the public, about $443,000 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 Ogle County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Ogle County counts 107,055 hogs, 33,826 head of cattle and 476 horses and ponies.

About 1,566 people run or help run farms in Ogle County, with an average age of 58. 29% of them are women. 180 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 Ogle County stands out: it ranks #10 of 102 IL counties for total farm sales.