Farm Subsidy information
The United States
The United States Farm Subsidy Breakdown, 2018
Total Subsidies, the United States, 2018
Top programs in the United States, 2018:
| Rank | Program | Number of Recipients 2018 |
Subsidy Total 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Market Facilitation Program (MFP) | 344,086 | $5,265,873,215 |
| 2 | Price Loss Coverage Program (PLC) | 283,405 | $2,069,880,660 |
| 3 | Conservation Reserve Program | 360,563 | $1,943,991,239 |
| 4 | Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) Program | 348,249 | $1,113,093,177 |
| 5 | Livestock Forage Disaster Program | 75,069 | $451,493,838 |
| 6 | Margin Protection Program | 22,261 | $252,905,194 |
| 7 | Cotton Ginning Program | 37,537 | $215,373,745 |
| 8 | Non-insured Disaster Assistance | 14,863 | $166,226,115 |
| 9 | Wildfires and Hurricane Indemnity Program Payments | 4,314 | $104,572,393 |
| 10 | Emergency Conservation Program | 6,722 | $93,061,894 |
| 11 | Emergency Livestock Assistance Program (ELAP) | 5,100 | $65,583,822 |
| 12 | Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) | 4,972 | $36,843,859 |
| 13 | Tree Assistance Program | 465 | $10,610,906 |
| 14 | Grasslands Reserve Program | 1,941 | $9,735,149 |
| 15 | Miscellaneous Disaster Programs | 1,269 | $3,982,403 |
| 16 | CCC Organic Programs | 1,984 | $1,688,566 |
| 17 | Loan Deficiency | 104 | $1,097,345 |
| 18 | Dairy Programs | 133 | $801,024 |
| 19 | Market Gains | 46 | $375,360 |
| 20 | Biomass Crop Assistance Program | 19 | $364,937 |
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