PIATT COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Bement, Cerro Gordo and La Place buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Piatt County by the Numbers

Piatt County has 390 farms on 228,142 acres (about 585 acres each). Together they sold $255.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and wheat.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce asparagus. Beekeepers tend about 35 honey bee colonies.

13 farms in Piatt County already sell straight to the public, about $70,000 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 Piatt County

Piatt County farms and homesteads keep 956 egg-laying hens, 734 head of cattle and 258 sheep. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 678 people run or help run farms in Piatt County, with an average age of 58. 31% of them are women. 46 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 2 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.