LAFAYETTE COUNTY MARKET

Lafayette County, Arkansas Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Lafayette County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Arkansas for Bradley, Buckner and and Stamps. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Lafayette County by the Numbers

Lafayette County has 192 farms on 120,374 acres (about 627 acres each). Together they sold $152.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cattle and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans. Beekeepers tend about 36 honey bee colonies.

5 farms in Lafayette County already sell straight to the public, about $43,000 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 Lafayette County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Lafayette County counts 26,544 head of cattle, 324 goats and 221 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 347 people run or help run farms in Lafayette County, with an average age of 56. 33% of them are women. 32 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 1 farm earns money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.