Farm Subsidy information
The United States
The United States Farm Subsidy Information
Total Subsidies, the United States, 1995-2019‡
The United States Farm Subsidy Quick Facts
- 69 percent of farms in United States did not collect subsidy payments - according to USDA.
Top programs in the United States, 1995-2019‡:
| Rank | Program | Number of Recipients |
Subsidy Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Corn Subsidies | 1,906,211 | $113,901,526,217 |
| 2 | Wheat Subsidies | 1,600,302 | $47,807,340,698 |
| 3 | Soybean Subsidies | 1,284,427 | $46,034,990,111 |
| 4 | Conservation Reserve Program | 1,045,175 | $42,511,699,304 |
| 5 | Cotton Subsidies | 310,918 | $39,798,772,515 |
| 6 | Disaster Payments | 1,528,421 | $32,606,270,241 |
| 7 | Rice Subsidies | 85,723 | $16,754,924,119 |
| 8 | Livestock Subsidies | 952,643 | $11,482,428,859 |
| 9 | Sorghum Subsidies | 715,041 | $8,966,692,667 |
| 10 | Dairy Program Subsidies | 166,488 | $6,008,392,788 |
| 11 | Peanut Subsidies | 105,360 | $5,776,245,697 |
| 12 | Env. Quality Incentive Program | 279,783 | $4,236,241,343 |
| 13 | Barley Subsidies | 398,927 | $3,202,992,010 |
| 14 | Tobacco Subsidies | 405,078 | $1,895,477,983 |
| 15 | Sunflower Subsidies | 78,470 | $1,331,893,175 |
| 16 | Canola Subsidies | 27,297 | $981,613,616 |
| 17 | Wetlands Reserve Program | 6,491 | $532,964,046 |
| 18 | Oat Subsidies | 718,523 | $384,837,207 |
| 19 | Apple Subsidies | 8,586 | $261,540,987 |
| 20 | Sugar Beet Subsidies | 9,071 | $242,064,005 |
‡ Data for 2019 is incomplete and only includes Market Facilitation Program payments made between January 1, 2019 and April 30, 2019.
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