RICE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Alden, Bushton and Lyons buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Kansas favorites like honey and fresh-baked bread show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Rice County by the Numbers

Rice County has 433 farms on 384,753 acres (about 889 acres each). Together they sold $297.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by wheat, corn and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples. Beekeepers tend about 24 honey bee colonies.

10 farms in Rice County already sell straight to the public, about $18,000 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 Rice County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 62,271 head of cattle, 411 sheep and 198 horses and ponies in Rice County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 798 people run or help run farms in Rice County, with an average age of 58. 35% of them are women. 53 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 13 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.