agriculture

Buena Vista County sits on some of the richest farmland in the United States. Over 300,000 bushels of corn and soybeans are harvested each year. Livestock includes turkeys, hogs and pigs (pop. 315,000), cows and calves (pop. 26,000) and chickens.

Buena Vista County continues to use agriculture as a major tool in economic development, partnering with business and industry to build Buena Vista County into a county that realizes the future potential of the resources that we hold dear.

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