SHACKELFORD COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 This is the Shackelford County page of Crop Market, a free online farmers market in Texas for Albany, and Moran. Watch for local pecans when it comes into season in Texas. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Shackelford County by the Numbers

Shackelford County has 208 farms on 497,940 acres (about 2,394 acres each). Together they sold $16.4 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, wheat and horses.

Orchards and vineyards here grow pecans. Beekeepers tend about 12 honey bee colonies.

7 farms in Shackelford County already sell straight to the public. 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 Shackelford County

Shackelford County farms and homesteads keep 23,795 head of cattle, 451 egg-laying hens and 281 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 355 people run or help run farms in Shackelford County, with an average age of 65. 38% of them are women. 15 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 27 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.