ERATH COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Erath County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Texas for Bluff Dale, Dublin and and Stephenville. Texas favorites like onions and citrus show up here when they're in season. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Erath County by the Numbers

Erath County has 2,400 farms on 675,439 acres (about 281 acres each). Together they sold $490 million of farm products in 2022, led by dairy (milk), cattle and nursery & greenhouse plants.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, grapes and peaches, and local fields produce tomatoes and sweet corn. Beekeepers tend about 305 honey bee colonies.

51 farms in Erath County already sell straight to the public, about $97,000 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 Erath County

Erath County farms and homesteads keep 171,459 head of cattle, 13,035 goats and 5,273 sheep. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 4,226 people run or help run farms in Erath County, with an average age of 60. 43% of them are women. 315 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 42 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Erath County stands out: it ranks #13 of 241 TX counties for goats and #15 of 252 TX counties for total farm sales.