ELK COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Elk County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Kansas for Elk Falls, Grenola and and Moline. Kansas favorites like pumpkins and honey 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 Elk County by the Numbers

Elk County has 255 farms on 246,966 acres (about 968 acres each). Together they sold $42.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, soybeans and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow peaches, apples and pears, and local fields produce sweet corn and asparagus. Beekeepers tend about 9 honey bee colonies.

5 farms in Elk 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 Elk County

Elk County farms and homesteads keep 42,093 head of cattle, 994 goats and 465 sheep. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 441 people run or help run farms in Elk County, with an average age of 62. 35% of them are women. 21 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 19 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Elk County stands out: it ranks #17 of 91 KS counties for goats.