BUFFALO COUNTY MARKET

Buffalo County, Wisconsin Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Buy local in Buffalo County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Alma, Fountain City and and Waumandee. Watch for local sweet corn when it comes into season in Wisconsin. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Buffalo County by the Numbers

Buffalo County has 896 farms on 309,976 acres (about 346 acres each). Together they sold $348.9 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), poultry & eggs and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and plums, and local fields produce squash, pumpkins, turnips and sweet corn. Beekeepers tend about 286 honey bee colonies.

26 farms in Buffalo County already sell straight to the public, about $1.3 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 Buffalo County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 166,920 egg-laying hens, 63,905 head of cattle and 795 sheep in Buffalo County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,639 people run or help run farms in Buffalo County, with an average age of 58. 32% of them are women. 86 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 18 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Buffalo County stands out: it ranks #6 of 66 WI counties for egg-laying hens.