State ranking directory - USDA ERS - FY2023
Farm Subsidy Rankings
Compare state payment, conservation, disaster-assistance, and crop-insurance-loss-ratio rankings from the USDA ERS FY2023 state snapshot.
Download the farm-payment statistics (CSV)- ERS fiscal year
- FY2023
- States ranked
- 50
- #1 Texas
- $1.2B
- Top-five share
- 33.6%
USDA ERS · state snapshot · FY2023
Texas leads USDA ERS state farm-program payments at $1.2B, 9.6% of the $12.3B FY2023 total; the top five states hold 33.6%.
According to the USDA Economic Research Service Farm Income and Wealth Statistics.
- $1.2B
- Texas total government payments
- 9.6%
- share of the $12.3B ERS state total
- 33.6%
- share held by the top five states
- 50
- states in this ERS snapshot
These rankings use the ERS state-year extract, not the 2022 NASS Census county tables and not farm-level recipient files. Method: /methodology.
Top subsidy states
States ranked by total USDA ERS government payments (fiscal year 2023).
Conservation leaders
States ranked by conservation program payments (CRP, EQIP, CSP).
Disaster assistance
States ranked by disaster and emergency program payments (CFAP, MFP, ERP, LFP).
Crop insurance loss ratio
States ranked by crop insurance loss ratio, indemnities paid vs. premiums collected.
Farm subsidies per acre
Counties ranked by 2022 federal farm-program receipts per agricultural acre.
How these rankings are compiled
Each ranking is a sort of USDA Economic Research Service Farm Income and Wealth Statistics state rows for fiscal year 2023. Totals are government payments in the ERS $1,000 unit convention. Conservation, disaster, and crop-insurance loss-ratio lists use the matching ERS columns on the same state snapshot. We do not mix in the 2022 USDA NASS Census of Agriculture (that powers county pages) and we do not use farm-level recipient files. Rankings recompute when the ERS extract refreshes; the cadence is on the methodology page.
What a ranking is (and is not)
A high rank on total payments usually means scale: more program-eligible acreage or a larger disaster year, not a quality or policy verdict. Loss ratio is indemnities relative to premiums in this reporting period, not a state's underlying agricultural risk. Specialty-crop states often sit lower on commodity-title totals because fruit, vegetable, and tree-nut production is mostly outside ARC/PLC.
USDA agencies behind the ERS series
USDA administers farm programs through the Farm Service Agency (commodity and many disaster payments), the Risk Management Agency (federal crop insurance), and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (working-lands conservation; CRP is jointly FSA). ERS consolidates those flows into the state series these pages rank. For farm-level recipient records, see the complementary public sources named on methodology; PlainFarmData does not ingest them.
Corrections
If a ranked total looks wrong, contact us with the state and the ERS series you expected. Corrections that change a published ranking go out as soon as the extract is rebuilt.
Every figure on this ranking hub is rendered from USDA ERS Farm Income and Wealth Statistics, no number is typed in by an editor. Rankings are a live sort of ERS state rows for fiscal year 2023; no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.