Farm Subsidy information
Georgia
Georgia Farm Subsidy Information
Total Subsidies, Georgia, 2015
Georgia Farm Subsidy Quick Facts
- Georgia ranking: 17 of 50 States
- 68 percent of farms in Georgia did not collect subsidy payments - according to USDA.
Top programs in Georgia, 2015:
| Rank | Program | Number of Recipients 2015 |
Subsidy Total 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peanut Subsidies | 5,959 | $173,620,844 |
| 2 | Cotton Subsidies | 3,679 | $109,343,356 |
| 3 | Corn Subsidies | 4,842 | $23,986,553 |
| 4 | Conservation Reserve Program | 5,481 | $16,080,017 |
| 5 | Disaster Payments | 2,125 | $12,958,713 |
| 6 | Livestock Subsidies | 1,824 | $9,023,574 |
| 7 | Soybean Subsidies | 999 | $4,856,024 |
| 8 | Wheat Subsidies | 1,100 | $2,482,891 |
| 9 | Sorghum Subsidies | 1,808 | $724,946 |
| 10 | Tree Subsidies | 23 | $496,778 |
‡ Data for 2020 includes payments made by USDA through June 30, 2020 and does not include crop insurance premium subsidies.
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