RICE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 From Dundas to Veseli, Rice County gardeners, small farms and home cooks post their extra harvest here for people nearby. 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 Rice County by the Numbers

Rice County has 1,111 farms on 249,881 acres (about 225 acres each). Together they sold $356.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, walnuts and plums, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, squash and bell peppers. Beekeepers tend about 815 honey bee colonies.

78 farms in Rice County already sell straight to the public, about $1.1 million 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 Rice County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 483,223 turkeys, 149,572 hogs and 16,167 head of cattle in Rice County.

About 1,983 people run or help run farms in Rice County, with an average age of 56. 33% of them are women. 240 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 12 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Rice County stands out: it ranks #5 of 77 MN counties for goats and #11 of 87 MN counties for number of farms.