RICHARDSON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Richardson County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Nebraska for Dawson, Falls City and Shubert. 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 Richardson County by the Numbers

Richardson County has 707 farms on 314,864 acres (about 445 acres each). Together they sold $232 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Local fields produce pumpkins and sweet corn.

7 farms in Richardson County already sell straight to the public, about $38,000 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 Richardson County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 25,538 hogs, 13,256 head of cattle and 997 sheep in Richardson County.

About 1,265 people run or help run farms in Richardson County, with an average age of 61. 32% of them are women. 74 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 Richardson County stands out: it ranks #16 of 93 NE counties for number of farms.