Farm Subsidy information
Colorado
Colorado Farm Subsidy Information
Total Subsidies, Colorado, 2016
Colorado Farm Subsidy Quick Facts
- Colorado ranking: 19 of 50 States
- 69 percent of farms in Colorado did not collect subsidy payments - according to USDA.
Top programs in Colorado, 2016:
| Rank | Program | Number of Recipients 2016 |
Subsidy Total 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Corn Subsidies | 5,992 | $91,200,504 |
| 2 | Wheat Subsidies | 10,019 | $89,628,970 |
| 3 | Conservation Reserve Program | 6,449 | $65,673,071 |
| 4 | Price Loss Coverage - Wheat | 7,304 | $32,297,978 |
| 5 | Sorghum Subsidies | 2,031 | $10,871,051 |
| 6 | Disaster Payments | 314 | $4,861,785 |
| 7 | Barley Subsidies | 333 | $2,480,582 |
| 8 | Sunflower Subsidies | 896 | $1,883,485 |
| 9 | Livestock Subsidies | 87 | $592,585 |
| 10 | Oat Subsidies | 1,607 | $343,437 |
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