Farm Subsidy information
El Paso County, Colorado
El Paso County, Colorado Farm Subsidy Information
Total Subsidies, El Paso County, Colorado, 1995-2019‡
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, 1995-2019‡:
| Rank | Program | Number of Recipients |
Subsidy Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conservation Reserve Program | 225 | $10,847,075 |
| 2 | Disaster Payments | 463 | $8,442,433 |
| 3 | Livestock Subsidies | 441 | $5,265,602 |
| 4 | Wheat Subsidies | 159 | $794,643 |
| 5 | Sorghum Subsidies | 100 | $494,305 |
‡ 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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