LAFAYETTE COUNTY MARKET

Lafayette County, Mississippi Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Abbeville, Lafayette and and Waterford buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. 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 Lafayette County by the Numbers

Lafayette County has 378 farms on 110,895 acres (about 293 acres each). Together they sold $11.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, cattle and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, pears and pawpaws, and local fields produce okra, asparagus, fresh herbs and garlic. Beekeepers tend about 259 honey bee colonies.

22 farms in Lafayette County already sell straight to the public, about $87,000 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 Lafayette County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 7,832 head of cattle, 1,813 egg-laying hens and 372 sheep in Lafayette County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 614 people run or help run farms in Lafayette County, with an average age of 63. 35% of them are women. 20 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.