Farm Subsidy information
Colorado
Colorado Farm Subsidy Breakdown, 2006
Total Subsidies, Colorado, 2006
Colorado Farm Subsidy Quick Facts
- Colorado ranking: 19 of 50 States
- 77 percent of farms in Colorado did not collect subsidy payments - according to USDA.
Top programs in Colorado, 2006:
| Rank | Program | Number of Recipients 2006 |
Subsidy Total 2006 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conservation Reserve Program | 7,907 | $76,662,492 |
| 2 | Direct Payment Program | 16,011 | $75,644,794 |
| 3 | Counter Cyclical Program | 12,366 | $37,405,388 |
| 4 | Loan Deficiency | 2,328 | $14,591,078 |
| 5 | Non-insured Disaster Assistance | 1,075 | $4,047,321 |
| 6 | Dairy Programs | 133 | $2,395,417 |
| 7 | Market Gains | 104 | $679,939 |
| 8 | Livestock Disaster and Emergency Programs | 92 | $542,773 |
| 9 | Hard Winter Wheat Incentive Program | 553 | $539,203 |
| 10 | Emergency Conservation Program | 92 | $333,732 |
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