TAYLOR COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Gilman, Lublin and and Westboro buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Taylor County by the Numbers

Taylor County has 745 farms on 216,009 acres (about 290 acres each). Together they sold $172.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), corn and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce pumpkins, green peas, potatoes and cucumbers. Beekeepers tend about 66 honey bee colonies.

45 farms in Taylor County already sell straight to the public, about $404,000 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 Taylor County

Taylor County farms and homesteads keep 39,963 head of cattle, 2,733 egg-laying hens and 877 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,370 people run or help run farms in Taylor County, with an average age of 56. 39% of them are women. 160 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.