Farm Subsidy information
Kentucky
Kentucky Farm Subsidy Information
Total Subsidies, Kentucky, 1995-2019‡
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, 1995-2019‡:
| Rank | Program | Number of Recipients |
Subsidy Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Corn Subsidies | 93,585 | $1,821,385,656 |
| 2 | Soybean Subsidies | 37,554 | $830,290,438 |
| 3 | Conservation Reserve Program | 22,966 | $818,736,415 |
| 4 | Tobacco Subsidies | 147,518 | $506,245,655 |
| 5 | Wheat Subsidies | 45,240 | $400,224,489 |
| 6 | Disaster Payments | 63,198 | $314,316,291 |
| 7 | Livestock Subsidies | 52,408 | $145,580,911 |
| 8 | Dairy Program Subsidies | 4,279 | $84,968,683 |
| 9 | Env. Quality Incentive Program | 6,343 | $63,886,247 |
| 10 | Wetlands Reserve Program | 91 | $31,857,019 |
‡ 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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