GREGORY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Gregory County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in South Dakota for Bonesteel, Dallas and Lucas. 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 Gregory County by the Numbers

Gregory County has 429 farms on 593,576 acres (about 1,384 acres each). Together they sold $104.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, corn and soybeans.

Local fields produce pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 4,042 honey bee colonies.

3 farms in Gregory County already sell straight to the public, about $24,000 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 Gregory County

Gregory County farms and homesteads keep 75,165 head of cattle, 1,112 goats and 1,077 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 801 people run or help run farms in Gregory County, with an average age of 56. 33% of them are women. 96 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 21 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Gregory County stands out: it ranks #2 of 53 SD counties for goats and #4 of 29 SD counties for honey bee colonies.