HIDALGO COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Hidalgo County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Texas for Mcallen, Alamo and Elsa. Watch for local onions when it comes into season in Texas. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Hidalgo County by the Numbers

Hidalgo County has 2,045 farms on 535,588 acres (about 262 acres each). Together they sold $386 million of farm products in 2022, led by vegetables, fruit & nuts and cotton.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapefruit, oranges and lemons, and local fields produce watermelons, onions, cabbage and fresh herbs.

76 farms in Hidalgo County already sell straight to the public, about $344,000 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 Hidalgo County

Hidalgo County farms and homesteads keep 33,018 head of cattle, 7,974 egg-laying hens and 6,761 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 3,481 people run or help run farms in Hidalgo County, with an average age of 56. 33% of them are women. 338 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 44 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Hidalgo County stands out: it ranks #18 of 252 TX counties for total farm sales and #23 of 241 TX counties for goats.