YAMHILL COUNTY MARKET

Yamhill County, Oregon Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Buy local in Yamhill County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Amity, Carlton and Mcminnville. Oregon favorites like berries and cherries show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Yamhill County by the Numbers

Yamhill County has 2,000 farms on 164,347 acres (about 82 acres each). Together they sold $418.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by nursery & greenhouse plants, fruit & nuts and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow hazelnuts, grapes and sweet cherries, and local fields produce sweet corn, radishes, turnips and squash. Beekeepers tend about 8,950 honey bee colonies.

301 farms in Yamhill County already sell straight to the public, about $21.8 million 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 Yamhill County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 18,229 head of cattle, 10,736 egg-laying hens and 3,248 sheep in Yamhill County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 3,905 people run or help run farms in Yamhill County, with an average age of 59. 44% of them are women. 243 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 16 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Yamhill County stands out: it ranks #1 of 34 OR counties for selling food straight to the public and #4 of 33 OR counties for egg-laying hens.