PRAIRIE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Biscoe, De Valls Bluff and and Ulm buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Arkansas favorites like blueberries and pecans show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Prairie County by the Numbers

Prairie County has 357 farms on 280,447 acres (about 786 acres each). Together they sold $173.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, rice and corn.

Beekeepers tend about 6 honey bee colonies.

1 farms in Prairie County already sell straight to the public. 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 Prairie County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 5,374 head of cattle, 317 egg-laying hens and 218 sheep in Prairie County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 628 people run or help run farms in Prairie County, with an average age of 57. 30% of them are women. 48 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.