PANOLA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Panola County? Backyard growers and small farms around Askew, Batesville and and Sardis list it here. Mississippi favorites like blueberries and muscadines show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Panola County by the Numbers

Panola County has 572 farms on 177,462 acres (about 310 acres each). Together they sold $51.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by cotton, soybeans and rice.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pears, peaches and apples, and local fields produce mustard greens, green peas, green beans and turnips. Beekeepers tend about 21 honey bee colonies.

7 farms in Panola County already sell straight to the public, about $52,000 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 Panola County

Panola County farms and homesteads keep 11,120 head of cattle, 719 sheep and 589 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 899 people run or help run farms in Panola County, with an average age of 63. 33% of them are women. 49 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 Panola County stands out: it ranks #8 of 82 MS counties for number of farms.