CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Chautauqua County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Kansas for Cedar Vale, Chautauqua and and Sedan. Watch for local fresh-baked bread when it comes into season in Kansas. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Chautauqua County by the Numbers

Chautauqua County has 335 farms on 311,512 acres (about 930 acres each). Together they sold $51.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, wheat and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow peaches and apples. Beekeepers tend about 55 honey bee colonies.

8 farms in Chautauqua County already sell straight to the public, about $56,000 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 Chautauqua County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 33,647 head of cattle, 1,644 goats and 1,020 hogs in Chautauqua County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 654 people run or help run farms in Chautauqua County, with an average age of 59. 40% of them are women. 69 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 27 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Chautauqua County stands out: it ranks #4 of 91 KS counties for goats.