Farm Subsidy information
Mississippi
Mississippi Farm Subsidy Information
Total Subsidies, Mississippi, 2016
Mississippi Farm Subsidy Quick Facts
- Mississippi ranking: 14 of 50 States
- 59 percent of farms in Mississippi did not collect subsidy payments - according to USDA.
Top programs in Mississippi, 2016:
| Rank | Program | Number of Recipients 2016 |
Subsidy Total 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soybean Subsidies | 4,899 | $93,833,406 |
| 2 | Rice Subsidies | 1,088 | $58,134,878 |
| 3 | Corn Subsidies | 4,818 | $53,956,846 |
| 4 | Conservation Reserve Program | 12,482 | $49,647,136 |
| 5 | Cotton Subsidies | 1,040 | $46,614,307 |
| 6 | Disaster Payments | 4,408 | $21,582,633 |
| 7 | Livestock Subsidies | 4,337 | $18,928,104 |
| 8 | Wheat Subsidies | 4,208 | $11,033,242 |
| 9 | Peanut Subsidies | 272 | $10,054,315 |
| 10 | Sorghum Subsidies | 3,153 | $3,511,284 |
‡ Data for 2020 includes payments made by USDA through June 30, 2020 and does not include crop insurance premium subsidies.
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