Farm Subsidy information
Texas
Texas Farm Subsidy Information
Total Subsidies, Texas, 2011
Texas Farm Subsidy Quick Facts
- Texas ranking: 1 of 50 States
- 81 percent of farms in Texas did not collect subsidy payments - according to USDA.
Top programs in Texas, 2011:
| Rank | Program | Number of Recipients 2011 |
Subsidy Total 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cotton Subsidies | 39,488 | $642,334,966 |
| 2 | Disaster Payments | 25,811 | $283,085,275 |
| 3 | Wheat Subsidies | 38,316 | $150,425,875 |
| 4 | Conservation Reserve Program | 16,789 | $125,807,668 |
| 5 | Livestock Subsidies | 11,176 | $90,356,088 |
| 6 | Corn Subsidies | 20,778 | $89,759,834 |
| 7 | Sorghum Subsidies | 41,460 | $86,196,591 |
| 8 | Rice Subsidies | 2,652 | $57,369,431 |
| 9 | Peanut Subsidies | 4,866 | $22,276,770 |
| 10 | Soybean Subsidies | 3,002 | $5,610,306 |
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