SUNFLOWER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Baird, Drew and Rome 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 Sunflower County by the Numbers

Sunflower County has 301 farms on 381,831 acres (about 1,269 acres each). Together they sold $349.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and aquaculture.

2 farms in Sunflower County already sell straight to the public. 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 Sunflower County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 276 egg-laying hens, 137 head of cattle and 118 goats in Sunflower County. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 526 people run or help run farms in Sunflower County, with an average age of 56. 25% of them are women. 58 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 2 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Sunflower County stands out: it ranks #2 of 82 MS counties for total farm sales.