Farm Subsidy information
Fort Bend County, Texas
Fort Bend County, Texas Farm Subsidy Breakdown, 2018
Total Subsidies, Fort Bend County, Texas, 2018
Fort Bend County, Texas Farm Subsidy Quick Facts
- Texas ranking: 1 of 50 States
- 86 percent of farms in Texas did not collect subsidy payments - according to USDA.
Top programs in Fort Bend County, Texas, 2018:
| Rank | Program | Number of Recipients 2018 |
Subsidy Total 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Price Loss Coverage Program (PLC) | 589 | $3,733,041 |
| 2 | Market Facilitation Program (MFP) | 75 | $1,503,031 |
| 3 | Cotton Ginning Program | 296 | $541,515 |
| 4 | Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) | 4 | $414,799 |
| 5 | Wildfires and Hurricane Indemnity Program Payments | 41 | $104,121 |
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