DEWEY COUNTY MARKET

Dewey County, South Dakota Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Eagle Butte, Isabel and and Whitehorse buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. 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 Dewey County by the Numbers

Dewey County has 318 farms on 1,202,557 acres (about 3,782 acres each). Together they sold $83 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, corn and wheat.

Local fields produce cantaloupes and potatoes.

5 farms in Dewey County already sell straight to the public, about $57,000 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 Dewey County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Dewey County counts 71,834 head of cattle, 2,009 horses and ponies and 244 sheep. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 569 people run or help run farms in Dewey County, with an average age of 55. 29% of them are women. 98 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.