LINCOLN COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Elsberry, Foley and Olney buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Missouri favorites like peaches and apples show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Lincoln County by the Numbers

Lincoln County has 1,040 farms on 218,355 acres (about 210 acres each). Together they sold $116.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples and pears, and local fields produce tomatoes, green beans, watermelons and bell peppers. Beekeepers tend about 184 honey bee colonies.

39 farms in Lincoln County already sell straight to the public, about $64,000 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 Lincoln County

Lincoln County farms and homesteads keep 10,866 head of cattle, 3,760 hogs and 1,488 sheep. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,825 people run or help run farms in Lincoln County, with an average age of 60. 32% of them are women. 103 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 9 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Lincoln County stands out: it ranks #23 of 114 MO counties for number of farms.