BUTLER COUNTY MARKET

Butler County, Kentucky Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Butler County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Kentucky for Logansport, Rochester and and Welchs Creek. Watch for local sweet corn when it comes into season in Kentucky. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Butler County by the Numbers

Butler County has 648 farms on 172,711 acres (about 267 acres each). Together they sold $63.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and poultry & eggs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pears and peaches, and local fields produce sweet corn, watermelons, cantaloupes and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 150 honey bee colonies.

29 farms in Butler County already sell straight to the public, about $159,000 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 Butler County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Butler County counts 42,386 egg-laying hens, 15,919 head of cattle and 550 sheep. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,079 people run or help run farms in Butler County, with an average age of 56. 32% of them are women. 107 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 7 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Butler County stands out: it ranks #14 of 110 KY counties for egg-laying hens.