OSAGE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Burlingame, Carbondale and Overbrook buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Osage County by the Numbers

Osage County has 865 farms on 337,246 acres (about 390 acres each). Together they sold $77.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and cattle.

Local fields produce pumpkins, bell peppers, green beans and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 285 honey bee colonies.

34 farms in Osage County already sell straight to the public, about $96,000 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 Osage County

Osage County farms and homesteads keep 29,631 head of cattle, 2,190 egg-laying hens and 945 sheep. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,589 people run or help run farms in Osage County, with an average age of 59. 36% of them are women. 163 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 Osage County stands out: it ranks #12 of 105 KS counties for number of farms and #15 of 99 KS counties for egg-laying hens.