SCOTT COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Scott County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Illinois for Alsey, Exeter and and Manchester. Illinois favorites like pumpkins and apples show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Scott County by the Numbers

Scott County has 267 farms on 104,741 acres (about 392 acres each). Together they sold $101.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples.

1 farms in Scott County already sell straight to the public. 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 Scott County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 13,515 hogs, 2,721 head of cattle and 233 egg-laying hens in Scott County.

About 496 people run or help run farms in Scott County, with an average age of 60. 25% of them are women. 33 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 8 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.