CROSBY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Crosby County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Texas for Cone, Crosbyton and and Lorenzo. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Crosby County by the Numbers

Crosby County has 440 farms on 576,011 acres (about 1,309 acres each). Together they sold $54.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by cotton, cattle and corn.

Beekeepers tend about 10 honey bee colonies.

11 farms in Crosby County already sell straight to the public, about $7,000 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 Crosby County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Crosby County counts 9,286 head of cattle, 1,494 sheep and 452 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 909 people run or help run farms in Crosby County, with an average age of 62. 35% of them are women. 49 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 7 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.