GREGG COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Gregg County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Texas for Longview, Clarksville City and and Kilgore. Watch for local onions when it comes into season in Texas. Posting an ad is free and sellers keep every dollar.

Farming in Gregg County by the Numbers

Gregg County has 403 farms on 26,043 acres (about 65 acres each). Together they sold $2.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, poultry & eggs and hay & other field crops.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, apples and pears, and local fields produce squash, bell peppers, chile peppers and okra. Beekeepers tend about 493 honey bee colonies.

52 farms in Gregg County already sell straight to the public, about $65,000 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 Gregg County

Gregg County farms and homesteads keep 3,240 head of cattle, 2,646 egg-laying hens and 390 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 675 people run or help run farms in Gregg County, with an average age of 59. 39% of them are women. 21 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers.