WEBSTER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Webster County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Mississippi for Maben, Mantee and and Walthall. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Webster County by the Numbers

Webster County has 264 farms on 46,190 acres (about 175 acres each). Together they sold $19 million of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, cotton and corn.

Local fields produce sweet potatoes, spinach and squash. Beekeepers tend about 5 honey bee colonies.

3 farms in Webster County already sell straight to the public, about $7,000 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 Webster County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 1,861 head of cattle, 201 egg-laying hens and 182 goats in Webster County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 455 people run or help run farms in Webster County, with an average age of 60. 42% of them are women. 42 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.