GRAY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Alanreed, Kellerville and and Pampa 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 Gray County by the Numbers

Gray County has 287 farms on 541,538 acres (about 1,887 acres each). Together they sold $278.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, corn and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow apples.

8 farms in Gray County already sell straight to the public, about $26,000 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 Gray County

Gray County farms and homesteads keep 116,562 head of cattle, 568 egg-laying hens and 476 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 558 people run or help run farms in Gray County, with an average age of 60. 38% of them are women. 37 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Gray County stands out: it ranks #23 of 252 TX counties for total farm sales.