DELTA COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Delta County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Ben Franklin, Cooper and and Pecan Gap. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Delta County by the Numbers

Delta County has 433 farms on 108,877 acres (about 251 acres each). Together they sold $19.8 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, wheat and corn.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, walnuts and persimmons, and local fields produce onions, watermelons, squash and sweet corn. Beekeepers tend about 177 honey bee colonies.

19 farms in Delta County already sell straight to the public, about $73,000 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 Delta County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 14,106 head of cattle, 757 egg-laying hens and 495 goats in Delta County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 712 people run or help run farms in Delta County, with an average age of 59. 37% of them are women. 55 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.