Farm Subsidy information
The United States
The United States Farm Subsidy Breakdown, 2016
Total Subsidies, the United States, 2016
Top programs in the United States, 2016:
| Rank | Program | Number of Recipients 2016 |
Subsidy Total 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) Program | 612,298 | $6,070,737,888 |
| 2 | Price Loss Coverage Program (PLC) | 267,753 | $1,947,915,567 |
| 3 | Conservation Reserve Program | 383,163 | $1,918,155,721 |
| 4 | Livestock Forage Disaster Program | 54,911 | $385,106,324 |
| 5 | Cotton Ginning Program | 34,359 | $327,721,921 |
| 6 | Loan Deficiency | 53,479 | $218,587,654 |
| 7 | Market Gains | 17,890 | $187,753,714 |
| 8 | Non-insured Disaster Assistance | 10,574 | $141,547,085 |
| 9 | Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) | 4,135 | $40,858,830 |
| 10 | Emergency Conservation Program | 3,452 | $30,341,324 |
| 11 | Emergency Livestock Assistance Program (ELAP) | 3,156 | $23,566,454 |
| 12 | Grasslands Reserve Program | 2,217 | $13,772,902 |
| 13 | Margin Protection Program | 4,915 | $10,409,331 |
| 14 | Tree Assistance Program | 672 | $10,332,525 |
| 15 | LDP-like Grazing Payments | 5,027 | $8,752,096 |
| 16 | Biomass Crop Assistance Program | 554 | $7,079,030 |
| 17 | Miscellaneous Disaster Programs | 1,357 | $5,812,120 |
| 18 | Direct Payment Program | 1,401 | $3,910,303 |
| 19 | SURE - 2010 Recovery Act Program | 71 | $1,170,081 |
| 20 | Cotton Transistion Assistance Program | 1,084 | $1,100,601 |
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