OTOE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 From Burr to Palmyra, Otoe County gardeners, small farms and home cooks post their extra harvest here for people nearby. Nebraska favorites like honey and sweet corn show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Otoe County by the Numbers

Otoe County has 856 farms on 368,524 acres (about 431 acres each). Together they sold $224.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and tart cherries, and local fields produce watermelons, tomatoes, sweet corn and squash. Beekeepers tend about 99 honey bee colonies.

26 farms in Otoe County already sell straight to the public, about $578,000 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 Otoe County

Otoe County farms and homesteads keep 54,004 hogs, 9,149 head of cattle and 1,876 egg-laying hens.

About 1,546 people run or help run farms in Otoe County, with an average age of 58. 31% of them are women. 165 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Otoe County stands out: it ranks #8 of 78 NE counties for egg-laying hens and #8 of 70 NE counties for selling food straight to the public.