DICKENS COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Afton, Dickens and and Spur buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Watch for local citrus when it comes into season in Texas. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Dickens County by the Numbers

Dickens County has 498 farms on 575,827 acres (about 1,156 acres each). Together they sold $17.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, cotton and horses.

Beekeepers tend about 12 honey bee colonies.

Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, 2022 Census of Agriculture.

Farm Life in Dickens County

Dickens County farms and homesteads keep 22,739 head of cattle, 810 horses and ponies and 421 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 825 people run or help run farms in Dickens County, with an average age of 61. 38% of them are women. 59 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 10 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.