PLATTE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Platte County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Missouri for Kansas City, Camden Point and Lake Waukomis. Missouri favorites like apples and sweet corn show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Platte County by the Numbers

Platte County has 485 farms on 147,941 acres (about 305 acres each). Together they sold $76.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and cattle.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and peaches, and local fields produce onions, tomatoes, spinach and radishes. Beekeepers tend about 83 honey bee colonies.

24 farms in Platte County already sell straight to the public, about $1.6 million 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 Platte County

Platte County farms and homesteads keep 10,596 head of cattle, 1,111 egg-laying hens and 451 sheep. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 819 people run or help run farms in Platte County, with an average age of 61. 36% of them are women. 21 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 8 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Platte County stands out: it ranks #4 of 106 MO counties for selling food straight to the public.