GENTRY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Albany, Darlington and and Stanberry buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local sweet corn when it comes into season in Missouri. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Gentry County by the Numbers

Gentry County has 629 farms on 268,094 acres (about 426 acres each). Together they sold $207.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and hay & other field crops.

Local fields produce watermelons, cantaloupes and sweet potatoes. Beekeepers tend about 135 honey bee colonies.

18 farms in Gentry County already sell straight to the public, about $47,000 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 Gentry County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 128,435 hogs, 39,861 head of cattle and 7,152 egg-laying hens in Gentry County.

About 1,124 people run or help run farms in Gentry County, with an average age of 58. 37% of them are women. 106 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 5 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Gentry County stands out: it ranks #19 of 109 MO counties for goats and #21 of 114 MO counties for total farm sales.