GOVE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Gove County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Gove, Grainfield and and Quinter. Kansas favorites like sweet corn and pumpkins 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 Gove County by the Numbers

Gove County has 383 farms on 658,365 acres (about 1,719 acres each). Together they sold $334 million of farm products in 2022, led by wheat, corn and sorghum.

Beekeepers tend about 3 honey bee colonies.

1 farms in Gove 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 Gove County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 80,312 head of cattle, 408 goats and 241 horses and ponies in Gove County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 644 people run or help run farms in Gove County, with an average age of 57. 30% of them are women. 101 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 5 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Gove County stands out: it ranks #19 of 105 KS counties for total farm sales.