BANNER COUNTY MARKET

Banner County, Nebraska Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Harrisburg and the rest of Banner County buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Banner County by the Numbers

Banner County has 226 farms on 447,050 acres (about 1,978 acres each). Together they sold $107 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, corn and wheat.

Beekeepers tend about 14 honey bee colonies.

3 farms in Banner County already sell straight to the public, about $21,000 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 Banner County

Banner County farms and homesteads keep 57,778 head of cattle, 340 horses and ponies and 225 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 430 people run or help run farms in Banner County, with an average age of 58. 41% of them are women. 55 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 3 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.