OTSEGO COUNTY MARKET

Otsego County, New York Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Otsego County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in New York for Burlington Flats, Cherry Valley and Edmeston. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Otsego County by the Numbers

Otsego County has 803 farms on 140,587 acres (about 175 acres each). Together they sold $62.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), corn and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples and pears, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, squash and potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 1,292 honey bee colonies.

122 farms in Otsego County already sell straight to the public, about $2.6 million 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 Otsego County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 13,385 head of cattle, 3,791 egg-laying hens and 1,776 goats in Otsego County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,450 people run or help run farms in Otsego County, with an average age of 57. 40% of them are women. 135 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 15 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Otsego County stands out: it ranks #3 of 54 NY counties for goats and #10 of 62 NY counties for number of farms.