OTTER TAIL COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Otter Tail County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Battle Lake, Bluffton and Deer Creek. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Otter Tail County by the Numbers

Otter Tail County has 2,497 farms on 770,922 acres (about 309 acres each). Together they sold $551.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, poultry & eggs and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and pears, and local fields produce pumpkins, sweet corn, tomatoes and squash. Beekeepers tend about 6,451 honey bee colonies.

128 farms in Otter Tail County already sell straight to the public, about $798,000 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 Otter Tail County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Otter Tail County counts 880,267 turkeys, 70,204 head of cattle and 4,145 egg-laying hens.

About 4,299 people run or help run farms in Otter Tail County, with an average age of 58. 31% of them are women. 395 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 25 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Otter Tail County stands out: it ranks #2 of 87 MN counties for number of farms and #5 of 64 MN counties for honey bee colonies.