Federal Farm Payments in 2019 Averaged Almost $25k

KANSAS CITY, MO – Government payments to farm operator households totaled $14.8 billion in 2019, based on data from USDA’s Agricultural Resource Management Survey. More than 30 percent of the nearly 2 million farms in this country received federal payments, with an average payment of $24,623.

The distribution of payments varied by farm type with about 74 percent of commercial farms (those with $350,000 or more in annual gross cash farm income) received an average payment of $84,775.

By comparison, about 31 percent of intermediate farms (less than $350,000 in annual income and a principal operator whose primary occupation is farming) received an average payment of $11,731.

About 24 percent of all residence farms (less than $350,000 in annual GCFI and a principal operator who is retired from farming or has a primary occupation other than farming) received an average payment of $8,147.
(SOURCE: All Ag News)