CALLAWAY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 From Auxvasse to New Bloomfield, Callaway County gardeners, small farms and home cooks post their extra harvest here for people nearby. Missouri favorites like apples and sweet corn 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 Callaway County by the Numbers

Callaway County has 1,271 farms on 289,024 acres (about 227 acres each). Together they sold $179.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by hogs, soybeans and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, apples and peaches, and local fields produce watermelons, sweet corn, cantaloupes and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 286 honey bee colonies.

60 farms in Callaway County already sell straight to the public, about $407,000 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 Callaway County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 208,868 hogs, 31,507 head of cattle and 2,606 egg-laying hens in Callaway County.

About 2,297 people run or help run farms in Callaway County, with an average age of 60. 36% of them are women. 132 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 17 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Callaway County stands out: it ranks #11 of 109 MO counties for honey bee colonies and #12 of 114 MO counties for number of farms.