SCURRY COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Scurry County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Texas for Dermott, Fluvanna and and Ira. 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 Scurry County by the Numbers

Scurry County has 685 farms on 569,946 acres (about 832 acres each). Together they sold $30.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by cotton, hay & other field crops and sheep & goats.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans. Beekeepers tend about 16 honey bee colonies.

11 farms in Scurry County already sell straight to the public, about $7,000 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 Scurry County

Livestock is part of daily life here: the 2022 farm census found 13,554 head of cattle, 1,679 goats and 1,634 egg-laying hens in Scurry County. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,290 people run or help run farms in Scurry County, with an average age of 59. 36% of them are women. 99 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 6 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.