WILBARGER COUNTY MARKET

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

🌽 Buy local in Wilbarger County: fruit, vegetables, honey, baked goods, plants and livestock from people in Harrold, Odell and and Vernon. Homemade jams, breads and honey are listed right next to fresh produce and seedlings. It's free to post, there's no cut taken, and local farm food carries no sales tax.

Farming in Wilbarger County by the Numbers

Wilbarger County has 374 farms on 536,318 acres (about 1,434 acres each). Together they sold $42.2 million of farm products in 2022, led by cattle, cotton and wheat.

Local fields produce watermelons and green onions. Beekeepers tend about 22 honey bee colonies.

5 farms in Wilbarger County already sell straight to the public, about $4,000 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 Wilbarger County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Wilbarger County counts 31,054 head of cattle, 660 horses and ponies and 450 egg-laying hens. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 716 people run or help run farms in Wilbarger County, with an average age of 60. 34% of them are women. 37 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 12 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.