ROBERTSON COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Robertson County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Texas for Bremond, Calvert and New Baden. Texas favorites like pecans and peaches show up here when they're in season. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Robertson County by the Numbers

Robertson County has 1,351 farms on 459,840 acres (about 340 acres each). Together they sold $217.7 million of farm products in 2022, led by poultry & eggs, cattle and dairy (milk).

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans, plums and grapes, and local fields produce green beans, onions, tomatoes and cantaloupes. Beekeepers tend about 267 honey bee colonies.

26 farms in Robertson County already sell straight to the public, about $69,000 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 Robertson County

Robertson County farms and homesteads keep 96,180 head of cattle, 2,144 goats and 1,004 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 2,247 people run or help run farms in Robertson County, with an average age of 61. 38% of them are women. 116 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 22 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.

Where Robertson County stands out: it ranks #29 of 252 TX counties for total farm sales.