WASHITA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Bessie, Burns Flat and Corn buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Oklahoma favorites like pecans and peaches show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Washita County by the Numbers

Washita County has 786 farms on 568,980 acres (about 724 acres each). Together they sold $133.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, cotton and wheat.

Beekeepers tend about 26 honey bee colonies.

8 farms in Washita County already sell straight to the public, about $14,000 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 Washita County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 83,569 head of cattle, 2,698 sheep and 1,285 egg-laying hens in Washita County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,313 people run or help run farms in Washita County, with an average age of 56. 35% of them are women. 173 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.