Commodity subsidies in North Carolina totaled $4.6 billion from 1995-2020‡.

Programs included in Subtotal, Farming Subsidies payments

Program Total Payments
1995-2020‡
Total Direct Payments$741,463,526
Total Tobacco Transition Payments$619,369,635
Loan Deficiency Payments$555,027,243
Total Counter Cyclical Payments$520,929,452
Production Flexibility Contracts$394,440,235
Total Market Facilitation Program$301,998,561
Total Commodity Certificates$299,340,220
Mkt. Loss Asst. - Commodity Crops$206,780,676
Total Agricultural Risk Coverage$205,375,470
Total Price Loss Coverage$176,563,280
Misc. Farm - Subsidies$165,181,926
Market Loss Assistance - Non-commodity$150,639,882
Marketing Loan Gains$48,849,242
Coronavirus Food Assistance Program$44,643,213
Total Dairy Program$38,762,632
Cotton Ginning Cost Share Program$23,535,195
Cotton Transistion Assistance Program$22,900,315
Tobacco Payment Program$21,650,994
Oilseed Program$18,106,782
Deficiency Payments$14,676,041
Total Livestock Indemnity Program$6,022,068
Total Peanut Load-in Charges$4,338,795
Average Crop Revenue Election Program (ACRE)$2,835,589
Total Agricultural Trade Adjustment Assistance Program$2,295,414
Total Storage Program$696,265
Total Lamb Payments$195,384
Wool And Mohair Programs$103,488
Total Ldp-like Grazing Payments$47,975
Total Organic Cost Share$45,339

‡ Data for 2020 includes payments made by USDA through June 30, 2020 and does not include crop insurance premium subsidies.

 

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