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Cross County and Jefferson County, compared

The Farm Service Agency administered $18,638,256 through Cross County and $17,769,056 through Jefferson County in 2025, out of $24,386,289,632 nationally.

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Cross County and Jefferson County: farm program payments in 2025
MeasureCross CountyJefferson County
AdministeredWhat the Farm Service Agency paid out through offices here.$18,638,256$17,769,056
RecipientsPayees, which are names and addresses as published. Not farms.532544
Separate paymentsOne row of USDA’s file is one disbursement, so a monthly program counts twelve.1,7492,150
Average per recipientAdministered, divided by payees. A mean over a very skewed distribution.$35,034$32,664
ResidentsThe Census Bureau’s estimate for the county, joined on its FIPS code.16,18662,987
Per residentA way to compare counties, not money anyone living there received.$1,152$282

How to read this

  • This is where the payment was administered, not where the money went. FSA pays through a county office, and a recipient addressed elsewhere is counted at the office that paid them. Neither column is a measure of farming in the place it names.
  • A recipient is a name and a mailing address. USDA publishes no identifier, so an operation paid through three companies is three recipients here and a payee who moved during the year is two. The recipient counts on the two sides are comparable with each other and are not counts of farms.
  • Larger is not worse, and neither is smaller. The figures are what one agency disbursed under the programs it runs. They are not a subsidy per acre, not the whole of federal farm support, and not a finding about anybody.
  • An office is not a county. Only the offices that resolve to exactly one Census county have a page, and these two do — which is why a population can be put beside them at all. Seventy-nine offices nationally do not.

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