Farm Subsidy information
Kentucky
Kentucky Farm Subsidy Breakdown, 2016
Total Subsidies, Kentucky, 2016
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, 2016:
| Rank | Program | Number of Recipients 2016 |
Subsidy Total 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) Program | 16,424 | $58,956,186 |
| 2 | Conservation Reserve Program | 7,544 | $43,020,979 |
| 3 | Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) | 1,672 | $4,838,446 |
| 4 | Price Loss Coverage Program (PLC) | 3,633 | $3,762,592 |
| 5 | Non-insured Disaster Assistance | 40 | $533,462 |
| 6 | Livestock Forage Disaster Program | 53 | $86,006 |
| 7 | Emergency Conservation Program | 20 | $84,870 |
| 8 | Emergency Livestock Assistance Program (ELAP) | 52 | $60,212 |
| 9 | Margin Protection Program | 53 | $57,812 |
| 10 | Average Crop Revenue Election Program (ACRE) | 1 | $28,515 |
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