ADAIR COUNTY MARKET

Adair County, Missouri Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Looking for food grown in Adair County? Backyard growers and small farms around Brashear, Gibbs and and Novinger list it here. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Adair County by the Numbers

Adair County has 804 farms on 249,382 acres (about 310 acres each). Together they sold $63 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, cattle and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples, peaches and pears, and local fields produce sweet corn, pumpkins, potatoes and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 52 honey bee colonies.

23 farms in Adair County already sell straight to the public, about $62,000 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 Adair County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 32,947 head of cattle, 1,643 sheep and 674 goats in Adair County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,446 people run or help run farms in Adair County, with an average age of 59. 38% of them are women. 114 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 8 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.