Vernon anchors Wilbarger County in the Texas Rolling Plains, where 374 farms work 536,318 acres at an average of 1,434 acres each. County producers sold $42.2 million in agricultural products in 2022, split roughly evenly between crops and livestock. Wheat for grain is the largest crop by area at 48,230 acres, ahead of cotton at 19,285 acres and forage at 16,566 acres, and ranchers held 31,054 head of cattle.
Production here is overwhelmingly dryland. Just 6,588 acres were irrigated in 2022, roughly 1 percent of all land in farms, and land divides into 181,374 acres of cropland against 342,245 acres of pasture. The Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Vernon runs wheat breeding, cropping systems, agrohydrology, grazing ecology, and animal nutrition programs and supports 116 jobs across the region.
Agnomy connects Vernon-area producers with verified local service providers who understand dryland wheat systems, stocker cattle grazing, and rainfall-driven field windows, making it easier to find, book, and manage the services your operation depends on.
