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Originally Posted by Nytro
Farm subsidies are extremely complicated and vary from state to state. If someone really wants to wade thru all the mumbo jumbo here's a great website to start with.
http://www.ewg.org/farm/region.php?fips=00000
67 percent of all farmers and ranchers do not collect government subsidy payments in United States, according to USDA. Among subsidy recipients, ten percent collected 73 percent of all subsidies amounting to $120.5 billion over 11 years. Recipients in the top 10% averaged $34,190 in annual payments between 1995 and 2005. The bottom 80 percent of the recipients saw only $704 on average per year. |
This is the link I was speaking of. Choose Florida, then choose your county, you'll be able to see the highest to lowest paid farmers in your county. It's quite surprising. I live in a county of less than 35,000 people and the one (a friends parents) got $395,000. And I know several of the others listed.