DAVIESS COUNTY MARKET

Daviess County, Indiana Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Daviess County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Indiana for Cannelburg, Elnora and and Washington. Indiana favorites like popcorn and sweet corn show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Daviess County by the Numbers

Daviess County has 1,140 farms on 186,607 acres (about 164 acres each). Together they sold $403.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, corn and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow peaches, and local fields produce watermelons, pumpkins, squash and cantaloupes. Beekeepers tend about 131 honey bee colonies.

36 farms in Daviess County already sell straight to the public, about $999,000 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 Daviess County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Daviess County counts 1,822,545 turkeys, 28,021 hogs and 7,532 head of cattle.

About 2,109 people run or help run farms in Daviess County, with an average age of 50. 31% of them are women. 408 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Daviess County stands out: it ranks #5 of 92 IN counties for number of farms and #10 of 92 IN counties for total farm sales.