WHEELER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Bartlett, and Ericson 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 Wheeler County by the Numbers

Wheeler County has 173 farms on 313,003 acres (about 1,809 acres each). Together they sold $358.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hay & other field crops.

Beekeepers tend about 24 honey bee colonies.

2 farms in Wheeler County already sell straight to the public. 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 Wheeler County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 100,403 head of cattle, 933 horses and ponies and 266 goats in Wheeler County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 330 people run or help run farms in Wheeler County, with an average age of 58. 37% of them are women. 31 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.