TURNER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Centerville, Chancellor and Monroe 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 Turner County by the Numbers

Turner County has 627 farms on 394,807 acres (about 630 acres each). Together they sold $366.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, dairy (milk) and soybeans.

Local fields produce tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 1,246 honey bee colonies.

13 farms in Turner County already sell straight to the public, about $181,000 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 Turner County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Turner County counts 79,976 hogs, 49,307 head of cattle and 6,239 sheep.

About 1,107 people run or help run farms in Turner County, with an average age of 58. 27% of them are women. 85 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 4 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Turner County stands out: it ranks #1 of 56 SD counties for egg-laying hens and #6 of 66 SD counties for total farm sales.