CEDAR COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Cedar County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Belden, Coleridge and Randolph. 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 Cedar County by the Numbers

Cedar County has 850 farms on 451,579 acres (about 531 acres each). Together they sold $610.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, corn and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples. Beekeepers tend about 5,331 honey bee colonies.

7 farms in Cedar County already sell straight to the public, about $92,000 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 Cedar County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 99,386 hogs, 99,336 head of cattle and 2,801 sheep in Cedar County.

About 1,451 people run or help run farms in Cedar County, with an average age of 56. 28% of them are women. 153 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 Cedar County stands out: it ranks #1 of 48 NE counties for honey bee colonies and #11 of 93 NE counties for total farm sales.