PAYNE COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Looking for food grown in Payne County? Backyard growers and small farms around Stillwater, Cushing and and Yale list it here. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Payne County by the Numbers

Payne County has 1,349 farms on 256,381 acres (about 190 acres each). Together they sold $41.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, nursery & greenhouse plants and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow peaches, pears and apples, and local fields produce pumpkins, watermelons, squash and sweet corn. Beekeepers tend about 112 honey bee colonies.

81 farms in Payne County already sell straight to the public, about $255,000 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 Payne County

Payne County farms and homesteads keep 46,715 head of cattle, 5,457 egg-laying hens and 4,097 sheep. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 2,473 people run or help run farms in Payne County, with an average age of 57. 41% of them are women. 262 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 20 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Payne County stands out: it ranks #6 of 77 OK counties for goats and #10 of 77 OK counties for number of farms.