OCONTO COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Oconto County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Abrams, Gillett and Oconto. Wisconsin favorites like cherries and sweet corn show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Oconto County by the Numbers

Oconto County has 762 farms on 194,482 acres (about 255 acres each). Together they sold $220.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), corn and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, grapes and persimmons, and local fields produce green beans, pumpkins, sweet corn and asparagus. Beekeepers tend about 156 honey bee colonies.

71 farms in Oconto County already sell straight to the public, about $523,000 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 Oconto County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 47,148 head of cattle, 4,152 egg-laying hens and 704 sheep in Oconto County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,364 people run or help run farms in Oconto County, with an average age of 57. 33% of them are women. 110 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 15 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.