MOUNTRAIL COUNTY MARKET

Mountrail County, North Dakota Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Belden, Charlson and Ross buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Mountrail County by the Numbers

Mountrail County has 512 farms on 1,165,469 acres (about 2,276 acres each). Together they sold $250.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by wheat, cattle and soybeans.

8 farms in Mountrail County already sell straight to the public, about $23,000 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 Mountrail County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 46,806 head of cattle, 1,910 hogs and 731 horses and ponies in Mountrail County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 879 people run or help run farms in Mountrail County, with an average age of 53. 31% of them are women. 128 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.