CADDO COUNTY MARKET

Caddo County, Oklahoma Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Buy local in Caddo County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Anadarko, Apache and Cyril. 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 Caddo County by the Numbers

Caddo County has 1,304 farms on 660,773 acres (about 507 acres each). Together they sold $176.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, hogs and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pears, and local fields produce pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 29 honey bee colonies.

20 farms in Caddo County already sell straight to the public, about $106,000 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 Caddo County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 105,368 head of cattle, 104,759 hogs and 1,862 egg-laying hens in Caddo County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 2,246 people run or help run farms in Caddo County, with an average age of 58. 37% of them are women. 238 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 19 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Caddo County stands out: it ranks #11 of 77 OK counties for total farm sales and #13 of 77 OK counties for number of farms.