HOCKLEY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Anton, Levelland and Sundown buy and sell food they grew, baked or raised. Fruit, vegetables, cottage foods, plants, seeds and farm gear are all welcome. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Hockley County by the Numbers

Hockley County has 897 farms on 546,993 acres (about 610 acres each). Together they sold $62.3 million of farm products in 2022, led by cotton, sorghum and corn.

Beekeepers tend about 20 honey bee colonies.

8 farms in Hockley County already sell straight to the public, about $39,000 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 Hockley County

Hockley County farms and homesteads keep 7,559 head of cattle, 666 sheep and 600 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,558 people run or help run farms in Hockley County, with an average age of 60. 40% of them are women. 98 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 7 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.