CUSTER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Custer County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Oklahoma for Arapaho, Butler and and Weatherford. 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 Custer County by the Numbers

Custer County has 800 farms on 630,316 acres (about 788 acres each). Together they sold $92.1 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, wheat and hay & other field crops.

Beekeepers tend about 103 honey bee colonies.

10 farms in Custer County already sell straight to the public, about $69,000 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 Custer County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Custer County counts 64,181 head of cattle, 6,903 hogs and 1,232 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,461 people run or help run farms in Custer County, with an average age of 56. 36% of them are women. 185 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 3 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.