CARTER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Ellsinore, Fremont and and Van Buren buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Carter County by the Numbers

Carter County has 173 farms on 70,610 acres (about 408 acres each). Together they sold $3.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by hay & other field crops, fruit & nuts and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans. Beekeepers tend about 45 honey bee colonies.

5 farms in Carter 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 Carter County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Carter County counts 5,385 head of cattle, 334 egg-laying hens and 127 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 313 people run or help run farms in Carter County, with an average age of 59. 38% of them are women. 19 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 1 farm earns money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.