GRUNDY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Grundy County? Backyard growers and small farms around Galt, Laredo and and Trenton list it here. 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 Grundy County by the Numbers

Grundy County has 564 farms on 214,652 acres (about 381 acres each). Together they sold $110.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow persimmons, and local fields produce tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 97 honey bee colonies.

13 farms in Grundy County already sell straight to the public, about $88,000 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 Grundy County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 43,147 hogs, 17,242 head of cattle and 1,249 sheep in Grundy County.

About 1,037 people run or help run farms in Grundy County, with an average age of 59. 39% of them are women. 105 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.