TORRANCE COUNTY MARKET

Torrance County, New Mexico Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Clines Corners, Encino and Mountainair 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 Torrance County by the Numbers

Torrance County has 577 farms on 1,692,413 acres (about 2,933 acres each). Together they sold $45.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by hay & other field crops, corn and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples and tart cherries, and local fields produce kale, lettuce, tomatoes and fresh herbs. Beekeepers tend about 66 honey bee colonies.

26 farms in Torrance County already sell straight to the public, about $132,000 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 Torrance County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 32,755 head of cattle, 4,112 sheep and 1,535 egg-laying hens in Torrance County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,058 people run or help run farms in Torrance County, with an average age of 61. 40% of them are women. 77 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.