| Rank |
District |
Cotton Subsidies**
1995-2011 | Pct of
Total | Running
Percentage |
| 1 | 19th District of Texas (Rep. Randy Neugebauer) | $3,405,181,570 | 10.5% | 10.5% |
| 2 | 2nd District of Mississippi (Rep. Bennie G. Thompson) | $2,574,835,665 | 8.0% | 18.5% |
| 3 | 5th District of Louisiana (Rep. Rodney Alexander) | $1,627,245,956 | 5.0% | 23.5% |
| 4 | 1st District of Arkansas (Rep. Rick Crawford) | $1,408,020,118 | 4.4% | 27.9% |
| 5 | 2nd District of Georgia (Rep. Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.) | $1,346,311,835 | 4.2% | 32.1% |
| 6 | 13th District of Texas (Rep. Mac Thornberry) | $1,184,220,622 | 3.7% | 35.7% |
| 7 | 20th District of California (Rep. Sam Farr) | $1,000,736,176 | 3.1% | 38.8% |
| 8 | 8th District of Tennessee (Rep. Stephen Lee Fincher) | $978,544,333 | 3.0% | 41.9% |
| 9 | 11th District of Texas (Rep. K. Michael Conaway) | $959,139,817 | 3.0% | 44.8% |
| 10 | 8th District of Missouri (Rep. Jo Ann Emerson) | $761,244,729 | 2.4% | 47.2% |
| 11 | 1st District of North Carolina (Rep. G. K. Butterfield) | $685,325,780 | 2.1% | 49.3% |
| 12 | 4th District of Arkansas (Rep. Tom Cotton) | $671,480,659 | 2.1% | 51.4% |
| 13 | 1st District of Georgia (Rep. Jack Kingston) | $516,106,886 | 1.6% | 53.0% |
| 14 | 1st District of Mississippi (Rep. Alan Nunnelee) | $488,216,288 | 1.5% | 54.5% |
| 15 | 15th District of Texas (Rep. Ruben Hinojosa) | $461,752,836 | 1.4% | 55.9% |
| 16 | 5th District of Alabama (Rep. Mo Brooks) | $433,665,038 | 1.3% | 57.3% |
| 17 | 3rd District of Georgia (Rep. Lynn A. Westmoreland) | $428,459,285 | 1.3% | 58.6% |
| 18 | 21st District of California (Rep. David Valadao) | $392,370,730 | 1.2% | 59.8% |
| 19 | 27th District of Texas (Rep. Blake Farenthold) | $382,950,021 | 1.2% | 61.0% |
| 20 | 7th District of Arizona (Rep. Ed Pastor) | $320,538,200 | 1.0% | 62.0% |
| 21 | 3rd District of Oklahoma (Rep. Frank D. Lucas) | $314,179,185 | 1.0% | 63.0% |
| 22 | 2nd District of Alabama (Rep. Martha Roby) | $302,214,404 | 0.9% | 63.9% |
| 23 | 18th District of California (Rep. Anna G. Eshoo) | $301,475,634 | 0.9% | 64.8% |
| 24 | 14th District of Texas (Rep. Ron Paul) | $285,762,741 | 0.9% | 65.7% |
| 25 | 3rd District of North Carolina (Rep. Walter B. Jones) | $263,516,517 | 0.8% | 66.5% |
| 26 | 6th District of South Carolina (Rep. James E. Clyburn) | $241,704,300 | 0.7% | 67.3% |
| 27 | 12th District of Georgia (Rep. John Barrow) | $238,200,157 | 0.7% | 68.0% |
| 28 | 19th District of California (Rep. Zoe Lofgren) | $234,739,535 | 0.7% | 68.7% |
| 29 | 22nd District of California (Rep. Devin Nunes) | $229,954,110 | 0.7% | 69.5% |
| 30 | 5th District of South Carolina (Rep. Mick Mulvaney) | $220,482,058 | 0.7% | 70.1% |
| 31 | 2nd District of Arizona (Rep. Ron Barber) | $215,054,102 | 0.7% | 70.8% |
| 32 | 1st District of Alabama (Rep. Jo Bonner) | $172,839,127 | 0.5% | 71.3% |
| 33 | 4th District of Louisiana (Rep. John Fleming) | $165,955,238 | 0.5% | 71.8% |
| 34 | 7th District of North Carolina (Rep. Mike McIntyre) | $152,556,510 | 0.5% | 72.3% |
| 35 | 2nd District of North Carolina (Rep. Renee L. Ellmers) | $151,663,442 | 0.5% | 72.8% |
| 36 | 7th District of Tennessee (Rep. Marsha Blackburn) | $148,966,452 | 0.5% | 73.3% |
| 37 | 23rd District of Texas (Rep. Francisco Canseco) | $146,829,442 | 0.5% | 73.7% |
| 38 | 4th District of Virginia (Rep. J. Randy Forbes) | $140,410,926 | 0.4% | 74.1% |
| 39 | 4th District of Oklahoma (Rep. Tom Cole) | $139,361,853 | 0.4% | 74.6% |
| 40 | 2nd District of New Mexico (Rep. Stevan Pearce) | $130,704,418 | 0.4% | 75.0% |
| 41 | 17th District of Texas (Rep. Bill Flores) | $124,963,469 | 0.4% | 75.4% |
| 42 | 8th District of North Carolina (Rep. Larry Kissell) | $120,221,800 | 0.4% | 75.7% |
| 43 | 31st District of Texas (Rep. John R. Carter) | $118,460,039 | 0.4% | 76.1% |
| 44 | 1st District of Arizona (Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick) | $114,189,257 | 0.4% | 76.5% |
| 45 | 1st District of Florida (Rep. Jeff Miller) | $112,243,768 | 0.3% | 76.8% |
| 46 | 3rd District of Alabama (Rep. Mike Rogers) | $88,169,047 | 0.3% | 77.1% |
| 47 | 2nd District of South Carolina (Rep. Joe Wilson) | $87,863,397 | 0.3% | 77.3% |
| 48 | 8th District of Arizona (Rep. Trent Franks) | $84,784,332 | 0.3% | 77.6% |
| 49 | 3rd District of Mississippi (Rep. Gregg Harper) | $80,789,906 | 0.3% | 77.9% |
| 50 | 7th District of Alabama (Rep. Terri A. Sewell) | $75,572,828 | 0.2% | 78.1% |
| 51 | 51st District of California (Rep. Juan Vargas) | $61,638,164 | 0.2% | 78.3% |
| 52 | 6th District of Texas (Rep. Joe Barton) | $59,468,683 | 0.2% | 78.5% |
| 53 | 22nd District of Texas (Rep. Pete Olson) | $59,188,141 | 0.2% | 78.7% |
| 54 | 6th District of Arizona (Rep. David Schweikert) | $55,231,689 | 0.2% | 78.8% |
| 55 | 45th District of California (Rep. John Campbell) | $52,829,358 | 0.2% | 79.0% |
| 56 | 2nd District of Florida (Rep. Steve, II Southerland) | $52,113,033 | 0.2% | 79.1% |
| 57 | 25th District of Texas (Rep. Lloyd Doggett) | $38,309,569 | 0.1% | 79.3% |
| 58 | 6th District of Louisiana (Rep. Bill Cassidy) | $35,534,820 | 0.1% | 79.4% |
| 59 | 4th District of Texas (Rep. Ralph M. Hall) | $33,378,526 | 0.1% | 79.5% |
| 60 | 4th District of Alabama (Rep. Robert B. Aderholt) | $32,403,574 | 0.1% | 79.6% |
| 61 | 4th District of Arizona (Rep. Paul A. Gosar) | $32,253,794 | 0.1% | 79.7% |
| 62 | 10th District of Texas (Rep. Michael T. McCaul) | $32,077,363 | 0.1% | 79.8% |
| 63 | 4th District of California (Rep. Tom McClintock) | $28,845,053 | 0.1% | 79.9% |
| 64 | 4th District of Tennessee (Rep. Scott DesJarlais) | $28,710,495 | 0.1% | 80.0% |
| 65 | 5th District of Arizona (Rep. Matt Salmon) | $27,338,561 | 0.1% | 80.0% |
| 66 | 3rd District of New Mexico (Rep. Ben Ray Lujan) | $27,314,308 | 0.1% | 80.1% |
| 67 | 2nd District of California (Rep. Jared Huffman) | $24,892,037 | 0.1% | 80.2% |
| 68 | 2nd District of Arkansas (Rep. Tim Griffin) | $23,262,508 | 0.1% | 80.3% |
| 69 | 16th District of Texas (Rep. Silvestre Reyes) | $20,472,107 | 0.1% | 80.3% |
| 70 | 6th District of Alabama (Rep. Spencer Bachus) | $19,386,719 | 0.1% | 80.4% |
| 71 | 4th District of Mississippi (Rep. Steven M. Palazzo) | $17,907,251 | 0.1% | 80.5% |
| 72 | 5th District of Texas (Rep. Jeb Hensarling) | $15,728,291 | 0.0% | 80.5% |
| 73 | 4th District of Kansas (Rep. Mike Pompeo) | $15,531,251 | 0.0% | 80.6% |
| 74 | 3rd District of Virginia (Rep. Robert C. Scott) | $15,184,795 | 0.0% | 80.6% |
| 75 | | $13,081,936 | 0.0% | 80.6% |
| 76 | 28th District of Texas (Rep. Henry Cuellar) | $12,388,064 | 0.0% | 80.7% |
| 77 | 1st District of Kansas (Rep. Tim Huelskamp) | $12,359,058 | 0.0% | 80.7% |
| 78 | 3rd District of Arizona (Rep. Raul Grijalva) | $11,208,830 | 0.0% | 80.8% |
| 79 | 9th District of Georgia (Rep. Doug Collins) | $10,977,313 | 0.0% | 80.8% |
| 80 | 3rd District of South Carolina (Rep. Jeff Duncan) | $10,862,324 | 0.0% | 80.8% |
| 81 | 11th District of Georgia (Rep. Phil Gingrey) | $9,980,639 | 0.0% | 80.8% |
| 82 | 9th District of Tennessee (Rep. Steve Cohen) | $6,987,391 | 0.0% | 80.9% |
| 83 | 9th District of North Carolina (Rep. Sue Wilkins Myrick) | $6,745,300 | 0.0% | 80.9% |
| 84 | 6th District of Tennessee (Rep. Diane Black) | $5,988,384 | 0.0% | 80.9% |
| 85 | 7th District of Georgia (Rep. Rob Woodall) | $5,051,686 | 0.0% | 80.9% |
| 86 | 4th District of Florida (Rep. Ander Crenshaw) | $4,625,924 | 0.0% | 80.9% |
| 87 | 2nd District of Virginia (Rep. E. Scott Rigell) | $4,492,502 | 0.0% | 81.0% |
| 88 | 8th District of Georgia (Rep. Austin Scott) | $3,286,209 | 0.0% | 81.0% |
| 89 | 10th District of North Carolina (Rep. Patrick T. McHenry) | $3,036,685 | 0.0% | 81.0% |
| 90 | 1st District of South Carolina (Rep. Tim Scott) | $2,975,945 | 0.0% | 81.0% |
| 91 | 1st District of Virginia (Rep. Robert J. Wittman) | $2,636,336 | 0.0% | 81.0% |
| 92 | 26th District of Texas (Rep. Michael C. Burgess) | $2,298,872 | 0.0% | 81.0% |
| 93 | 1st District of California (Rep. Doug LaMalfa) | $1,788,631 | 0.0% | 81.0% |
| 94 | 4th District of South Carolina (Rep. Trey Gowdy) | $1,732,016 | 0.0% | 81.0% |
| 95 | 12th District of North Carolina (Rep. Melvin L. Watt) | $1,552,830 | 0.0% | 81.0% |
| 96 | 21st District of Texas (Rep. Lamar Smith) | $1,478,916 | 0.0% | 81.0% |
| 97 | 30th District of Texas (Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson) | $1,470,369 | 0.0% | 81.0% |
| 98 | 1st District of Texas (Rep. Louie Gohmert) | $1,402,590 | 0.0% | 81.0% |
| 99 | 10th District of Georgia (Rep. Paul C. Broun) | $1,319,956 | 0.0% | 81.0% |
| 100 | 5th District of North Carolina (Rep. Virginia Foxx) | $1,314,502 | 0.0% | 81.0% |
| 101 | 2nd District of Texas (Rep. Ted Poe) | $1,265,934 | 0.0% | 81.0% |
| 102 | 13th District of North Carolina (Rep. Brad Miller) | $1,179,466 | 0.0% | 81.0% |
| 103 | 2nd District of Oklahoma (Rep. Dan Boren) | $747,667 | 0.0% | 81.0% |
| 104 | 6th District of North Carolina (Rep. Howard Coble) | $706,077 | 0.0% | 81.0% |
| 105 | 11th District of California (Rep. George Miller) | $706,062 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 106 | 7th District of Texas (Rep. John Abney Culberson) | $649,213 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 107 | 20th District of Texas (Rep. Charles A. Gonzalez) | $560,174 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 108 | 5th District of Virginia (Rep. Robert Hurt) | $550,935 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 109 | 25th District of California (Rep. Howard P. McKeon) | $511,447 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 110 | 1st District of Louisiana (Rep. Steve Scalise) | $451,037 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 111 | 3rd District of Texas (Rep. Sam Johnson) | $448,541 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 112 | 6th District of Florida (Rep. Ron DeSantis) | $439,500 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 113 | At Large District of South Dakota (Rep. Kristi L. Noem) | $437,942 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 114 | 24th District of Texas (Rep. Kenny Marchant) | $437,723 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 115 | 10th District of California (Rep. Jeff Denham) | $423,878 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 116 | 8th District of Texas (Rep. Kevin Brady) | $389,134 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 117 | 2nd District of Kansas (Rep. Lynn Jenkins) | $303,582 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 118 | 1st District of Kentucky (Rep. Ed Whitfield) | $294,621 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 119 | 12th District of Texas (Rep. Kay Granger) | $284,221 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 120 | 4th District of Missouri (Rep. Vicky Hartzler) | $280,638 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 121 | 32nd District of Texas (Rep. Pete Sessions) | $277,943 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 122 | 9th District of Texas (Rep. Al Green) | $219,308 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 123 | 3rd District of Florida (Rep. Ted Yoho) | $191,170 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 124 | 41st District of California (Rep. Mark Takano) | $174,484 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 125 | 5th District of Florida (Rep. Corrine Brown) | $165,475 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 126 | 6th District of Georgia (Rep. Tom Price) | $105,698 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 127 | 1st District of Maryland (Rep. Andy Harris) | $98,610 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 128 | 5th District of Oklahoma (Rep. James Lankford) | $95,157 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 129 | 4th District of Iowa (Rep. Steve King) | $82,163 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 130 | 17th District of California (Rep. Mike Honda) | $64,485 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 131 | 44th District of California (Rep. Janice Hahn) | $60,537 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 132 | 24th District of California (Rep. Lois Capps) | $57,715 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 133 | 16th District of Florida (Rep. Vern Buchanan) | $50,895 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 134 | 52nd District of California (Rep. Scott Peters) | $44,790 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 135 | 7th District of Virginia (Rep. Eric Cantor) | $41,250 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 136 | 7th District of Florida (Rep. John L. Mica) | $38,231 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 137 | 3rd District of Colorado (Rep. Scott R. Tipton) | $29,579 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 138 | 4th District of North Carolina (Rep. David E. Price) | $28,530 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 139 | 3rd District of Arkansas (Rep. Steve Womack) | $19,552 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 140 | 1st District of Oklahoma (Rep. John Sullivan) | $19,310 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 141 | 42nd District of California (Rep. Ken Calvert) | $10,978 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 142 | 7th District of Missouri (Rep. Billy Long) | $10,550 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 143 | 3rd District of California (Rep. John Garamendi) | $10,264 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 144 | 13th District of Georgia (Rep. David Scott) | $9,852 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 145 | 8th District of Florida (Rep. Bill Posey) | $6,874 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 146 | 3rd District of Louisiana (Rep. Charles W. Boustany, Jr.) | $4,825 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 147 | 3rd District of Nebraska (Rep. Adrian Smith) | $3,902 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 148 | 5th District of Maryland (Rep. Steny H. Hoyer) | $3,320 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 149 | 4th District of Kentucky (Rep. Thomas Massie) | $3,219 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 150 | 6th District of Virginia (Rep. Bob Goodlatte) | $2,988 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 151 | 7th District of Minnesota (Rep. Collin C. Peterson) | $1,737 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 152 | 3rd District of Kansas (Rep. Kevin Yoder) | $491 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 153 | 1st District of Nebraska (Rep. Jeff Fortenberry) | $485 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 154 | At Large District of Montana (Rep. Denny Rehberg) | $419 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 155 | 5th District of Washington (Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers) | $357 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 156 | | $154 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
| 157 | 2nd District of Kentucky (Rep. Brett Guthrie) | $122 | 0.0% | 81.1% |
Source: Environmental Working Group. Compiled from USDA data.
** Crop totals are an estimate. In the data received by EWG for 2009-2011, USDA does not differentiate Direct Payments or Counter-Cyclical Payments by crop as in previous years. EWG allocated the region's Direct Payments by crop for the 2009-2011 calendar year using the proportion of that crop's Direct Payments in 2008. Number of recipients receiving Direct Payments for that crop were not estimated. Due to the way Counter Cyclical Payments are made - EWG was not able to allocate Counter Cyclical Payments to crops. Also included in the crop totals are the crop insurance premiums as reported by the USDA Risk Management Agency for that crop. The crop insurance premium is the amount of money that is calculated by USDA to make the program actuarially sound. Crop insurance premium subsidies are available at the county, state and national level.
Note: The information on conservation spending for 2011 is incomplete due to missing data from USDA's Natural Resource Conservation Service. In addition some payments made in 2010 were not assigned to recipients in the data received from NRCS. Those payments are also not included.
The information provided for the Wetland Reserve Program (WRP) provides an inaccurate picture of how WRP payments are distributed. USDA's Natural Resource Conservation Service uses title companies as intermediaries to finalize wetlands easements under the Wetlands Reserve Program. As a result, the data provided to us shows large sums of money going to these title companies. In reality, the payments are ultimately distributed to landowners participating in the WRP.
Unfortunately, NRCS has not provided the data to show where these farms and wetlands are located or which farmers or landowners are enrolling in the program, so EWG is unable to allocate these large sums of money to individuals beyond the title companies. Therefore, these companies skew the conservation rankings and payment concentration, which EWG cannot avoid unless and until NRCS makes available the additional farm attribution data. Therefore, we have not included WRP payments in the 2011 data update.
We have separated data on farm commodity, disaster and conservation payments in order to provide a more accurate picture of top recipients and concentration of payments among the three main categories of USDA programs.
Finally, EWG works hard to ensure the accuracy of the information it provides through its products and services, but obtains data for the Farm Subsidy Database from the U.S. Department of Agriculture pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act. Therefore, EWG cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information USDA provides or any analysis based thereon. If you find an error or discrepancy on the site, please contact your local USDA Farm Service Agency office to check its records before contacting EWG.
