CASS COUNTY MARKET

Cass County, Michigan Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Cass County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Michigan for Cassopolis, Dowagiac and Union. Watch for local asparagus when it comes into season in Michigan. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Cass County by the Numbers

Cass County has 651 farms on 193,125 acres (about 297 acres each). Together they sold $223.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, hogs and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, tart cherries and chestnuts, and local fields produce green beans, sweet corn, pumpkins and broccoli. Beekeepers tend about 5,233 honey bee colonies.

55 farms in Cass County already sell straight to the public, about $983,000 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 Cass County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 111,859 hogs, 3,632 head of cattle and 2,457 sheep in Cass County.

About 1,182 people run or help run farms in Cass County, with an average age of 56. 34% of them are women. 141 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 Cass County stands out: it ranks #3 of 74 MI counties for honey bee colonies.