COOPER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Cooper County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Missouri for Blackwater, Boonville and Prairie Home. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Cooper County by the Numbers

Cooper County has 753 farms on 262,105 acres (about 348 acres each). Together they sold $135.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and cattle.

Local fields produce sweet corn and cucumbers. Beekeepers tend about 81 honey bee colonies.

39 farms in Cooper County already sell straight to the public, about $157,000 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 Cooper County

Cooper County farms and homesteads keep 228,164 egg-laying hens, 49,333 head of cattle and 672 sheep. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,338 people run or help run farms in Cooper County, with an average age of 57. 34% of them are women. 160 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 7 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Cooper County stands out: it ranks #10 of 103 MO counties for egg-laying hens.