BARRY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Barry County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Missouri for Butterfield, Cassville and Monett. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Barry County by the Numbers

Barry County has 1,299 farms on 279,279 acres (about 215 acres each). Together they sold $560.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cattle and dairy (milk).

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, and local fields produce pumpkins, squash and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 279 honey bee colonies.

30 farms in Barry County already sell straight to the public, about $188,000 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 Barry County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 956,945 turkeys, 327,353 egg-laying hens and 94,412 head of cattle in Barry County.

About 2,257 people run or help run farms in Barry County, with an average age of 57. 40% of them are women. 196 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.

Where Barry County stands out: it ranks #2 of 114 MO counties for total farm sales and #6 of 103 MO counties for egg-laying hens.