BUTLER COUNTY MARKET

Butler County, Kansas Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Butler County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Kansas for Andover, Augusta and Cassoday. Kansas favorites like fresh-baked bread and sweet corn 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 Butler County by the Numbers

Butler County has 1,399 farms on 821,264 acres (about 587 acres each). Together they sold $344.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, corn and soybeans.

Local fields produce cantaloupes, tomatoes, cucumbers and chile peppers. Beekeepers tend about 181 honey bee colonies.

70 farms in Butler County already sell straight to the public, about $647,000 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 Butler County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Butler County counts 135,567 head of cattle, 18,568 hogs and 4,441 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 2,530 people run or help run farms in Butler County, with an average age of 58. 37% of them are women. 241 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 24 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Butler County stands out: it ranks #2 of 105 KS counties for number of farms and #2 of 91 KS counties for goats.