BECKER COUNTY MARKET

Becker County, Minnesota Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Audubon, Callaway and Ogema 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 Becker County by the Numbers

Becker County has 952 farms on 381,537 acres (about 401 acres each). Together they sold $305.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and dairy (milk).

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce pumpkins and squash. Beekeepers tend about 62 honey bee colonies.

28 farms in Becker County already sell straight to the public, about $136,000 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 Becker County

Becker County farms and homesteads keep 357,337 turkeys, 30,827 head of cattle and 24,991 hogs.

About 1,657 people run or help run farms in Becker County, with an average age of 59. 32% of them are women. 114 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 2 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.