SALINE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Saline County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Arrow Rock, Blackburn and Miami. 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 Saline County by the Numbers

Saline County has 832 farms on 426,061 acres (about 512 acres each). Together they sold $399.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by corn, soybeans and hogs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pears, and local fields produce sweet corn, watermelons, bell peppers and tomatoes. Beekeepers tend about 81 honey bee colonies.

16 farms in Saline County already sell straight to the public, about $70,000 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 Saline County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 162,766 hogs, 20,602 head of cattle and 1,317 egg-laying hens in Saline County.

About 1,450 people run or help run farms in Saline County, with an average age of 60. 28% of them are women. 123 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 7 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Saline County stands out: it ranks #4 of 114 MO counties for total farm sales and #20 of 109 MO counties for goats.