YELL COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Belleville, Bluffton and Dardanelle buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Arkansas favorites like blueberries and pecans show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Yell County by the Numbers

Yell County has 715 farms on 189,747 acres (about 265 acres each). Together they sold $384.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, corn and soybeans.

Orchards and vineyards here grow peaches, persimmons and pears, and local fields produce watermelons, tomatoes, cantaloupes and cabbage. Beekeepers tend about 206 honey bee colonies.

13 farms in Yell County already sell straight to the public, about $58,000 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 Yell County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Yell County counts 471,707 egg-laying hens, 36,893 head of cattle and 723 horses and ponies. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,308 people run or help run farms in Yell County, with an average age of 57. 40% of them are women. 135 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.

Where Yell County stands out: it ranks #5 of 75 AR counties for total farm sales and #10 of 65 AR counties for egg-laying hens.