WOOD COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Wisconsin Rapids, Arpin and Marshfield buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Wisconsin favorites like cranberries and cherries show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Wood County by the Numbers

Wood County has 909 farms on 216,635 acres (about 238 acres each). Together they sold $210.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), fruit & nuts and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, and local fields produce asparagus, sweet corn, pumpkins and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 848 honey bee colonies.

82 farms in Wood County already sell straight to the public, about $481,000 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 Wood County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 44,174 head of cattle, 3,904 egg-laying hens and 1,239 sheep in Wood County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,621 people run or help run farms in Wood County, with an average age of 56. 36% of them are women. 155 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 5 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Wood County stands out: it ranks #12 of 69 WI counties for honey bee colonies.