Farm Subsidy information
El Paso County, Colorado
El Paso County, Colorado Farm Subsidy Breakdown, 2017
Total Subsidies, El Paso County, Colorado, 2017
El Paso County, 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 El Paso County, Colorado, 2017:
| Rank | Program | Number of Recipients 2017 |
Subsidy Total 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conservation Reserve Program | 53 | $449,282 |
| 2 | Price Loss Coverage Program (PLC) | 15 | $36,309 |
| 3 | Grasslands Reserve Program | 1 | $10,512 |
| 4 | Non-insured Disaster Assistance | 4 | $6,274 |
| 5 | Loan Deficiency | 1 | $766 |
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