LA CROSSE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the La Crosse County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Wisconsin for La Crosse, Bangor and Rockland. Wisconsin favorites like maple syrup and cranberries show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in La Crosse County by the Numbers

La Crosse County has 676 farms on 138,200 acres (about 204 acres each). Together they sold $81.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), corn and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and pears, and local fields produce sweet corn, tomatoes, pumpkins and squash. Beekeepers tend about 58 honey bee colonies.

36 farms in La Crosse County already sell straight to the public, about $99,000 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 La Crosse County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 18,403 head of cattle, 9,240 egg-laying hens and 1,001 sheep in La Crosse County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,228 people run or help run farms in La Crosse County, with an average age of 60. 36% of them are women. 62 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 11 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.