SCHUYLER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Schuyler County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Bader, Camden and and Littleton. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Schuyler County by the Numbers

Schuyler County has 574 farms on 207,067 acres (about 361 acres each). Together they sold $144.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Beekeepers tend about 75 honey bee colonies.

15 farms in Schuyler County already sell straight to the public, about $108,000 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 Schuyler County

Schuyler County farms and homesteads keep 52,618 hogs, 11,027 head of cattle and 316 egg-laying hens.

About 998 people run or help run farms in Schuyler County, with an average age of 60. 24% of them are women. 49 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 18 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.