SHANNON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Birch Tree, Eminence and and Winona 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 Shannon County by the Numbers

Shannon County has 422 farms on 133,126 acres (about 315 acres each). Together they sold $14.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hay & other field crops and sheep & goats.

Beekeepers tend about 13 honey bee colonies.

7 farms in Shannon County already sell straight to the public, about $10,000 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 Shannon County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 26,744 head of cattle, 1,238 sheep and 1,134 egg-laying hens in Shannon County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 751 people run or help run farms in Shannon County, with an average age of 58. 42% of them are women. 80 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.