Farm Subsidy information
Colorado
Colorado Farm Subsidy Information
Total Subsidies, Colorado, 2018
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, 2018:
| Rank | Program | Number of Recipients |
Subsidy Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wheat Subsidies | 9,357 | $80,988,091 |
| 2 | Conservation Reserve Program | 6,242 | $64,905,493 |
| 3 | Corn Subsidies | 3,564 | $53,842,656 |
| 4 | Disaster Payments | 2,147 | $30,243,405 |
| 5 | Livestock Subsidies | 1,894 | $21,786,079 |
| 6 | Sorghum Subsidies | 2,196 | $13,639,734 |
| 7 | Barley Subsidies | 2,351 | $4,303,861 |
| 8 | Sunflower Subsidies | 1,073 | $3,738,237 |
| 9 | Dairy Program Subsidies | 74 | $3,521,329 |
| 10 | Soybean Subsidies | 75 | $1,015,648 |
‡ 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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