Gavin de Gruiter
October 25, 2022
Table 1. Crops/Livestock in Lamar County. cp28073.pdf (usda.gov).
Lamar County has a decent sized agriculture industry, and it has a number of different crops and livestock grown here.
Lamar county has four hundred and nineteen farms. Sixty-eight percent of the farms are anywhere from ten to one hundred and eighty acres in size, eighteen percent of the farms are larger than this, and fifteen percent of the farms are smaller. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, out of Lamar County's approximate three hundred and twenty acres, about seventy-three thousand acres consists of farmland. The gross domestic product of all the farms in Lamar County is around fifty-three million, and the net domestic product is around twenty million. Forty percent of the farms make less than two thousand and five hundred dollars in sales, many of these also keep some of the products for themselves. Thirty-nine percent make anywhere from two thousand five hundred to twenty-five thousand in sales. Ninety-six percent of the farms in Lamar County are family farms. Twenty-one percent of the farms make more than twenty-five thousand dollars in sales. The table shows the large number of crops and livestock grown and raised here in Lamar County. The most crop grown is hay. Different types of beans, pecans, berries (blueberries), and corn are crops that have over two hundred acres of farmland. Fifty-six percent of Lamar County's farmland is woodland. The lumber industry is huge in Lamar County. It is the largest crop grown here. Lamar County is ranked number one in the state for woody crops/Christmas trees production, and out of every county in the country, Lamar County is ranked one hundred and thirty-second. Lamar County is also ranked second in the state and four hundred and second in the country for fruits, tree nuts, and berries. There are many blueberry farms and pecan farms here. There are also many chicken farms here. Lamar County is ranked twenty-first in the state and two hundred and ninety-sixth in the county in chicken farm production. Fifteen percent of the farmland is cropland, twenty-two percent is pastureland, fifty-six percent is woodland, and seven percent is listed as other. The majority of crops grown here are trees. The lumber industry is dominant in the agriculture of Lamar County. This is not because crops cannot grow here, there are plenty of rivers and creeks for irrigation and the soil is fine, but Lamar County is located in the Pine Belt. The Pine Belt is an area in South Mississippi where pine trees grow everywhere. The woods are dominated by pine trees.
Lamar County does not grow a large variety of edible crops. Beans, vegetables, potatoes, melons, fruits, nuts, and berries are the main food crops grown. Lamar County grows large amounts of chickens and eggs. Also, cows, sheep, goats, milk, and a few pigs and turkeys are also raised here. The main meat here to buy locally for food would be the poultry.
Lamar County has a large agricultural industry, especially the lumber industry and poultry industry, and raises a variety of different crops and livestock. Although the largest crop grown, trees, are not edible, there is still a number of different livestock and crops grown here for eating.
2017 Census of Agriculture County Profile - Lamar County Mississippi. cp28073.pdf (usda.gov). Accessed October 25, 2022.
United States Department of Agriculture. Census of Agriculture - 2017 Census Publications - State and County Profiles - Mississippi (usda.gov). Accessed October 25, 2022.
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