DAVIESS COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Daviess County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Owensboro, Maceo and and Whitesville. Watch for local tomatoes 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 Daviess County by the Numbers

Daviess County has 974 farms on 271,336 acres (about 279 acres each). Together they sold $335.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and poultry & eggs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples and pears, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, potatoes and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 407 honey bee colonies.

37 farms in Daviess County already sell straight to the public, about $502,000 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 Daviess County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 255,003 turkeys, 13,254 head of cattle and 1,554 egg-laying hens in Daviess County.

About 1,692 people run or help run farms in Daviess County, with an average age of 56. 29% of them are women. 130 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 1 farm earns money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Daviess County stands out: it ranks #2 of 120 KY counties for total farm sales and #10 of 113 KY counties for selling food straight to the public.