Farm Subsidy information
Kentucky
Kentucky Farm Subsidy Breakdown, 2008
Total Subsidies, Kentucky, 2008
Kentucky Farm Subsidy Quick Facts
- Kentucky ranking: 24 of 50 States
- 78 percent of farms in Kentucky did not collect subsidy payments - according to USDA.
Top programs in Kentucky, 2008:
| Rank | Program | Number of Recipients 2008 |
Subsidy Total 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Direct Payment Program | 38,608 | $53,682,775 |
| 2 | Conservation Reserve Program | 10,047 | $51,674,633 |
| 3 | Tobacco Transition Payment | 30,765 | $47,042,294 |
| 4 | Crop Disaster Assistance Program | 3,630 | $33,613,946 |
| 5 | Livestock Disaster and Emergency Programs | 16,856 | $12,901,848 |
| 6 | Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) | 400 | $1,015,889 |
| 7 | Non-insured Disaster Assistance | 169 | $972,773 |
| 8 | Miscellaneous Disaster Programs | 156 | $927,737 |
| 9 | Grasslands Reserve Program | 24 | $128,283 |
| 10 | Emergency Conservation Program | 21 | $75,062 |
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