CLINTON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Cameron, Gower and and Turney buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local sweet corn when it comes into season in Missouri. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Clinton County by the Numbers

Clinton County has 628 farms on 190,097 acres (about 303 acres each). Together they sold $104.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow chestnuts, apples and peaches, and local fields produce pumpkins, cantaloupes, tomatoes and bell peppers. Beekeepers tend about 147 honey bee colonies.

33 farms in Clinton County already sell straight to the public, about $102,000 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 Clinton County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Clinton County counts 25,850 head of cattle, 2,621 egg-laying hens and 826 sheep. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,090 people run or help run farms in Clinton County, with an average age of 59. 41% of them are women. 52 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 10 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.