PRICE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Price County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Brantwood, Catawba and Park Falls. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Price County by the Numbers

Price County has 357 farms on 84,387 acres (about 236 acres each). Together they sold $30.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), cattle and hay & other field crops.

Local fields produce pumpkins, sweet corn, squash and fresh herbs. Beekeepers tend about 29 honey bee colonies.

38 farms in Price 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 Price County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 10,777 head of cattle, 1,383 egg-laying hens and 398 sheep in Price County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 625 people run or help run farms in Price County, with an average age of 60. 36% of them are women. 30 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 7 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.