Farm Subsidy information
Arkansas
Arkansas Farm Subsidy Breakdown, 2008
Total Subsidies, Arkansas, 2008
Arkansas Farm Subsidy Quick Facts
- Arkansas ranking: 12 of 50 States
- 80 percent of farms in Arkansas did not collect subsidy payments - according to USDA.
Top programs in Arkansas, 2008:
| Rank | Program | Number of Recipients 2008 |
Subsidy Total 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Direct Payment Program | 20,843 | $249,447,208 |
| 2 | Counter Cyclical Program | 7,384 | $43,050,650 |
| 3 | Crop Disaster Assistance Program | 2,312 | $16,950,277 |
| 4 | Conservation Reserve Program | 3,472 | $14,316,715 |
| 5 | Loan Deficiency | 527 | $7,928,664 |
| 6 | Market Gains | 703 | $6,557,774 |
| 7 | Livestock Disaster and Emergency Programs | 5,083 | $6,007,982 |
| 8 | Non-insured Disaster Assistance | 1,891 | $4,312,131 |
| 9 | Miscellaneous Disaster Programs | 19 | $275,089 |
| 10 | Grasslands Reserve Program | 36 | $124,609 |
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