MONROE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Monroe County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Missouri for Holliday, Madison and and Stoutsville. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Monroe County by the Numbers

Monroe County has 846 farms on 285,759 acres (about 338 acres each). Together they sold $181 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow peaches, and local fields produce pumpkins and watermelons. Beekeepers tend about 144 honey bee colonies.

4 farms in Monroe County already sell straight to the public, about $3,000 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 Monroe County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Monroe County counts 84,240 hogs, 22,947 head of cattle and 2,535 sheep.

About 1,548 people run or help run farms in Monroe County, with an average age of 61. 34% of them are women. 104 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.