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U.S. Counties Getting the Most USDA Funding Per Acre

A descriptive ranking of public USDA farm-payment dollars per acre of farmland — 2024 payments (EWG Farm Subsidy Database) over each county's farmland acres (2022 USDA Census of Agriculture).

Top 25 Counties — Most USDA Dollars Per Acre
#1 Acadia County, LA · 285,254 ac farmland
$153.40/ac
#2 Kitsap County, WA · 9,539 ac farmland
$138.57/ac
#3 Jefferson Davis County, LA · 297,971 ac farmland
$126.65/ac
#4 Allen County, LA · 78,688 ac farmland
$120.91/ac
#5 Levy County, FL · 198,497 ac farmland
$115.24/ac
#6 Onslow County, NC · 53,032 ac farmland
$98.22/ac
#7 Vermilion County, LA · 319,376 ac farmland
$88.94/ac
#8 Evangeline County, LA · 176,523 ac farmland
$88.89/ac
#9 Harmon County, OK · 301,242 ac farmland
$88.80/ac
#10 Clinch County, GA · 44,721 ac farmland
$84.02/ac
#11 Transylvania County, NC · 11,537 ac farmland
$82.61/ac
#12 Saint Landry County, LA · 267,660 ac farmland
$78.08/ac
#13 Middlesex County, MA · 25,752 ac farmland
$73.96/ac
#14 Chelan County, WA · 55,095 ac farmland
$69.06/ac
#15 Barnstable County, MA · 3,956 ac farmland
$64.03/ac
#16 Hale County, AL · 149,599 ac farmland
$63.33/ac
#17 Bacon County, GA · 77,153 ac farmland
$62.97/ac
#18 Mason County, WA · 36,865 ac farmland
$59.10/ac
#19 Suffolk County, NY · 33,821 ac farmland
$59.00/ac
#20 Washington County, RI · 27,496 ac farmland
$53.96/ac
#21 Thurston County, NE · 155,821 ac farmland
$53.37/ac
#22 Moniteau County, MO · 189,462 ac farmland
$52.41/ac
#23 Appling County, GA · 119,040 ac farmland
$51.83/ac
#24 Carteret County, NC · 60,950 ac farmland
$51.29/ac
#25 Cameron County, LA · 153,946 ac farmland
$50.14/ac
Bottom 25 Counties — Fewest USDA Dollars Per Acre
#3,016 Oglala Lakota County, SD · 1,070,988 ac farmland
$0.00/ac
#3,011 Passaic County, NJ · 1,830 ac farmland
$0.00/ac
#3,001 Shoshone County, ID · 1,605 ac farmland
$0.00/ac
#3,031 Anne Arundel County, MD · 36,003 ac farmland
$0.00/ac
#2,993 Carson City County, NV · 1,591 ac farmland
$0.00/ac
#2,998 Cook County, MN · 1,940 ac farmland
$0.00/ac
#3,024 Lake County, MN · 1,422 ac farmland
$0.00/ac
#3,004 Unicoi County, TN · 3,748 ac farmland
$0.00/ac
#3,005 Saint Bernard County, LA · 39,255 ac farmland
$0.00/ac
#3,028 Miami - Dade County, FL · 68,837 ac farmland
$0.00/ac
#3,014 Nassau County, FL · 47,480 ac farmland
$0.00/ac
#3,032 Greenwood County, SC · 79,037 ac farmland
$0.00/ac
#2,992 Clear Creek County, CO · 9,151 ac farmland
$0.00/ac
#3,029 Jefferson County, CO · 43,436 ac farmland
$0.00/ac
#3,022 Gilpin County, CO · 3,428 ac farmland
$0.00/ac
#3,027 Park County, CO · 225,695 ac farmland
$0.00/ac
#3,026 Pitkin County, CO · 36,630 ac farmland
$0.00/ac
#3,008 Lake County, CO · 15,034 ac farmland
$0.00/ac
#2,996 Pend Oreille County, WA · 37,832 ac farmland
$0.00/ac
#3,030 Gogebic County, MI · 5,198 ac farmland
$0.00/ac
#3,023 Crawford County, MI · 1,230 ac farmland
$0.00/ac
#3,007 Pike County, PA · 31,311 ac farmland
$0.00/ac
#3,025 Ste. Genevieve County, MO · 158,419 ac farmland
$0.00/ac
#3,009 Campbell County, KY · 38,744 ac farmland
$0.00/ac
#3,020 Whitley County, KY · 62,190 ac farmland
$0.00/ac

What this ranking is (and isn't)

This is a descriptive statistic built from public records: total USDA farm-program payments to a county in the 2024 payment window (EWG Farm Subsidy Database, all-program total), divided by that county's land in farms from the 2022 USDA Census of Agriculture. It reflects county-wide totals — a few large operations, a single commodity, or a small farmland base can push a county high. It is not a prediction of what any individual farm received or will receive, and a high or low number does not mean a farm did anything right or wrong.

Counties without reliable farmland-acre data are left out of the ranking. Sources: 6 public USDA/federal datasets including EWG/USDA subsidy records and the USDA NASS Census of Agriculture.