Comparison
Scott County and Mitchell County, compared
The Farm Service Agency administered $31,228,994 through Scott County and $30,396,183 through Mitchell County in 2025, out of $24,386,289,632 nationally.
Side by side
| Measure | Scott County | Mitchell County |
|---|---|---|
| AdministeredWhat the Farm Service Agency paid out through offices here. | $31.2 million$31,228,994 | $30.4 million$30,396,183 |
| RecipientsPayees, which are names and addresses as published. Not farms. | 791 | 873 |
| Separate paymentsOne row of USDA’s file is one disbursement, so a monthly program counts twelve. | 3,019 | 4,870 |
| Average per recipientAdministered, divided by payees. A mean over a very skewed distribution. | $39,480 | $34,818 |
| ResidentsThe Census Bureau’s estimate for the county, joined on its FIPS code. | 4,815 | 5,590 |
| Per residentA way to compare counties, not money anyone living there received. | $6,486 | $5,438 |
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.
Each on its own
Data retrieved
Sources
- Farm program payment files — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 24, 2026
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