Farm Subsidy information
Montana
Montana Farm Subsidy Breakdown, 2005
Total Subsidies, Montana, 2005
Montana Farm Subsidy Quick Facts
- Montana ranking: 18 of 50 States
- 61 percent of farms in Montana did not collect subsidy payments - according to USDA.
Top programs in Montana, 2005:
| Rank | Program | Number of Recipients 2005 |
Subsidy Total 2005 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conservation Reserve Program | 8,388 | $113,479,152 |
| 2 | Direct Payment Program | 18,486 | $103,639,426 |
| 3 | Crop Disaster Assistance Program | 8,149 | $68,660,828 |
| 4 | Livestock Disaster and Emergency Programs | 4,015 | $30,936,634 |
| 5 | Loan Deficiency | 5,310 | $18,703,073 |
| 6 | Counter Cyclical Program | 15,746 | $10,990,349 |
| 7 | Non-insured Disaster Assistance | 1,042 | $2,823,817 |
| 8 | Market Gains | 626 | $1,964,203 |
| 9 | Lamb Meat Adjustment Program | 862 | $998,907 |
| 10 | Commodity Certificates | 24 | $778,952 |
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