CHARITON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Chariton County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Missouri for Brunswick, Dalton and Salisbury. Missouri favorites like black walnuts and peaches show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Chariton County by the Numbers

Chariton County has 954 farms on 372,047 acres (about 390 acres each). Together they sold $202.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans. Beekeepers tend about 31 honey bee colonies.

11 farms in Chariton County already sell straight to the public, about $101,000 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 Chariton County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 46,582 hogs, 38,898 head of cattle and 1,035 sheep in Chariton County.

About 1,638 people run or help run farms in Chariton County, with an average age of 60. 34% of them are women. 142 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 9 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Chariton County stands out: it ranks #22 of 114 MO counties for total farm sales.