Farm Subsidy information
Cameron County, Texas
Cameron County, Texas Farm Subsidy Information
Total Subsidies, Cameron County, Texas, 1995-2019‡
Cameron County, Texas Farm Subsidy Quick Facts
- Texas ranking: 1 of 50 States
- 86 percent of farms in Texas did not collect subsidy payments - according to USDA.
Top programs in Cameron County, Texas, 1995-2019‡:
| Rank | Program | Number of Recipients |
Subsidy Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cotton Subsidies | 4,382 | $187,604,318 |
| 2 | Sorghum Subsidies | 4,270 | $75,008,324 |
| 3 | Disaster Payments | 1,381 | $32,964,873 |
| 4 | Corn Subsidies | 3,518 | $20,356,088 |
| 5 | Conservation Reserve Program | 62 | $5,326,632 |
‡ 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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