CARROLL COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Bogard, Bosworth and Norborne buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Missouri favorites like sweet corn and black walnuts 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 Carroll County by the Numbers

Carroll County has 960 farms on 393,921 acres (about 410 acres each). Together they sold $209.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pears, and local fields produce pumpkins, sweet corn and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 96 honey bee colonies.

8 farms in Carroll County already sell straight to the public, about $19,000 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 Carroll County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Carroll County counts 24,360 head of cattle, 825 egg-laying hens and 512 sheep. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,666 people run or help run farms in Carroll County, with an average age of 61. 32% of them are women. 103 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.

Where Carroll County stands out: it ranks #20 of 114 MO counties for total farm sales.