DENT COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Anutt, Boss and and Salem buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Dent County by the Numbers

Dent County has 601 farms on 203,855 acres (about 339 acres each). Together they sold $24.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and fruit & nuts.

Orchards and vineyards here grow walnuts, apples and peaches, and local fields produce cucumbers, lettuce, tomatoes and radishes. Beekeepers tend about 58 honey bee colonies.

8 farms in Dent County already sell straight to the public, about $20,000 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 Dent County

Dent County farms and homesteads keep 39,002 head of cattle, 1,701 sheep and 1,177 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,077 people run or help run farms in Dent County, with an average age of 57. 39% of them are women. 100 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 16 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Dent County stands out: it ranks #22 of 109 MO counties for goats.