DALLAM COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Dalhart, and Texline buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. 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 Dallam County by the Numbers

Dallam County has 323 farms on 961,047 acres (about 2,975 acres each). Together they sold $1.1 billion of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, corn and hay & other field crops.

Local fields produce pumpkins. Beekeepers tend about 3 honey bee colonies.

7 farms in Dallam County already sell straight to the public, about $64,000 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 Dallam County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Dallam County counts 383,651 head of cattle, 362 horses and ponies and 159 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 650 people run or help run farms in Dallam County, with an average age of 56. 31% of them are women. 78 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 3 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Dallam County stands out: it ranks #5 of 252 TX counties for total farm sales.