CASS COUNTY MARKET

Cass County, Texas Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 This is the Cass County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Texas for Atlanta, Bivins and Kildare. 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 Cass County by the Numbers

Cass County has 939 farms on 139,124 acres (about 148 acres each). Together they sold $144.5 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cattle and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, pears and peaches, and local fields produce watermelons, cucumbers, potatoes and squash. Beekeepers tend about 1,491 honey bee colonies.

28 farms in Cass County already sell straight to the public, about $758,000 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 Cass County

Cass County farms and homesteads keep 302,260 egg-laying hens, 20,089 head of cattle and 1,011 horses and ponies. Fresh farm eggs are one of the easiest things to buy and sell locally.

About 1,656 people run or help run farms in Cass County, with an average age of 60. 40% of them are women. 78 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 9 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Cass County stands out: it ranks #3 of 231 TX counties for egg-laying hens and #22 of 192 TX counties for honey bee colonies.