RIPLEY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Fairdealing, Gatewood and and Poynor buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Ripley County by the Numbers

Ripley County has 397 farms on 139,907 acres (about 352 acres each). Together they sold $37.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cattle and rice.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes and walnuts, and local fields produce sweet corn and turnips. Beekeepers tend about 115 honey bee colonies.

23 farms in Ripley County already sell straight to the public, about $36,000 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 Ripley County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 30,965 head of cattle, 457 horses and ponies and 357 goats in Ripley County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 715 people run or help run farms in Ripley County, with an average age of 54. 37% of them are women. 123 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 1 farm earns money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.