RUNNELS COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Crop Market is a free online farmers market where neighbors in Ballinger, Miles and and Winters 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 Runnels County by the Numbers

Runnels County has 1,039 farms on 672,612 acres (about 647 acres each). Together they sold $61.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, cotton and wheat.

Local fields produce watermelons. Beekeepers tend about 519 honey bee colonies.

10 farms in Runnels County already sell straight to the public, about $11,000 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 Runnels County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Runnels County counts 36,974 head of cattle, 9,794 sheep and 2,582 goats. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,858 people run or help run farms in Runnels County, with an average age of 59. 34% of them are women. 150 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 50 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.