Farm Subsidy information
Colorado
Colorado Farm Subsidy Breakdown, 2024
Total Subsidies, Colorado, 2024
Colorado Farm Subsidy Quick Facts
- Colorado ranking: 19 of 50 States
- 77 percent of farms in Colorado did not collect subsidy payments - according to USDA.
Top programs in Colorado, 2024:
| Rank | Program | Number of Recipients 2024 |
Subsidy Total 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conservation Reserve Program | 5,381 | $66,475,795 |
| 2 | Total Emergency Relief Program | 6,131 | $39,712,038 |
| 3 | Emergency Livestock Assistance Program (ELAP) | 3,482 | $14,422,834 |
| 4 | Livestock Forage Disaster Program | 655 | $9,739,231 |
| 5 | Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) Program | 1,618 | $9,563,507 |
| 6 | Non-insured Disaster Assistance | 215 | $5,606,175 |
| 7 | Dairy Programs | 72 | $831,191 |
| 8 | Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) | 26 | $652,486 |
| 9 | Emergency Conservation Program | 8 | $354,049 |
| 10 | Grasslands Reserve Program | 12 | $209,710 |
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