UNION COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Union County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in New Mexico for Amistad, Capulin and Gladstone. Watch for local pecans when it comes into season in New Mexico. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Union County by the Numbers

Union County has 343 farms on 1,925,764 acres (about 5,614 acres each). Together they sold $86.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, corn and wheat.

1 farms in Union 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 Union County

Union County farms and homesteads keep 60,012 head of cattle, 703 horses and ponies and 256 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 609 people run or help run farms in Union County, with an average age of 59. 41% of them are women. 54 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 14 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.