RICHLAND COUNTY MARKET

Richland County, Louisiana Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Richland County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Alto, Archibald and and Warden. Louisiana favorites like sweet potatoes and satsumas 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 Richland County by the Numbers

Richland County has 556 farms on 227,761 acres (about 410 acres each). Together they sold $126.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and cotton.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans. Beekeepers tend about 242 honey bee colonies.

3 farms in Richland 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 Richland County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 15,722 head of cattle, 417 sheep and 317 horses and ponies in Richland County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 925 people run or help run farms in Richland County, with an average age of 61. 33% of them are women. 46 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.