Farm Subsidy information
Colorado
Colorado Farm Subsidy Information
Total Subsidies, Colorado, 2012
Colorado Farm Subsidy Quick Facts
- Colorado ranking: 19 of 50 States
- 77 percent of farms in Colorado did not collect subsidy payments - according to USDA.
Top programs in Colorado, 2012:
| Rank | Program | Number of Recipients |
Subsidy Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wheat Subsidies | 11,316 | $93,204,762 |
| 2 | Conservation Reserve Program | 7,059 | $71,107,488 |
| 3 | Corn Subsidies | 6,053 | $69,413,683 |
| 4 | Disaster Payments | 1,384 | $18,630,041 |
| 5 | Sorghum Subsidies | 3,505 | $8,667,629 |
| 6 | Barley Subsidies | 5,654 | $3,483,518 |
| 7 | Sunflower Subsidies | 1,698 | $3,432,900 |
| 8 | Livestock Subsidies | 192 | $2,681,691 |
| 9 | Dairy Program Subsidies | 107 | $2,401,686 |
| 10 | Soybean Subsidies | 234 | $313,982 |
‡ 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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