KEARNEY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Kearney County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Nebraska for Axtell, Heartwell and and Wilcox. Watch for local honey when it comes into season in Nebraska. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Kearney County by the Numbers

Kearney County has 327 farms on 308,416 acres (about 943 acres each). Together they sold $602.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, corn and soybeans.

Local fields produce pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 84 honey bee colonies.

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

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 95,439 head of cattle, 810 egg-laying hens and 210 sheep in Kearney County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 657 people run or help run farms in Kearney County, with an average age of 54. 29% of them are women. 100 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 1 farm earns money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Kearney County stands out: it ranks #12 of 93 NE counties for total farm sales.