Farm subsidies in Halifax County, Virginia
The Farm Service Agency paid 177 recipients $485.4 thousand through its Halifax office in 2023, across 296 payments — 1.6% of what it paid in Virginia.
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Halifax County in 2023
- $485.4 thousand
- Paid out
- $485,380
- 17 of 76 counties in Virginia by what the office paid.
- 177
- Recipients
- Name and mailing address as published, counted once however many payments.
- 296
- Payments
- One row of USDA’s file is one disbursement, not one recipient.
- $15
- Per resident
- Over the Census Bureau's 33,447 residents. Farm payments go to farms, not to residents — this is a way to compare counties, not a payment anyone received.
FSA calls this office Halifax and numbers it 83 within state 51, which is its own numbering and not the Census Bureau’s. The FIPS code for Halifax County is 51083.
What Virginia was paid for
The state’s programs, largest first. The published file records a program against a payment rather than against a county office, so these are Virginia’s figures and not this office’s.
| Program | Paid out | Recipients |
|---|---|---|
| DAIRY MARGIN COVERAGE | $15,669,291 | 219 |
| NAP REGULAR WEB-BASED | $9,266,102 | 714 |
| EMRGNCY RELIEF PRGM TRK 1-NONSPCLTY CRPS | $5,680,078 | 757 |
| CFAPCCA2 | $2,081,887 | 2,100 |
| EMERG ASSIST LIVESTOCK BEES FISH (ELAP) | $1,897,646 | 5 |
| CRP PAYMENT - ANNUAL RENTAL | $1,774,811 | 2,010 |
| PANDEMIC ASSISTANCE REVENUE PROGRAM | $1,211,356 | 281 |
| EMERGENCY RELIEF PRGM 2 | $979,196 | 18 |
The largest counties in Virginia
| County | Paid out | Recipients |
|---|---|---|
| Franklin County | $3,120,359 | 118 |
| Bedford County | $3,049,511 | 255 |
| Pittsylvania County | $2,869,477 | 179 |
| Augusta County | $2,815,782 | 270 |
| Accomack County | $2,115,566 | 59 |
| Wythe County | $1,430,626 | 282 |
| Botetourt County | $830,937 | 64 |
| Patrick County | $743,974 | 163 |
| Pulaski County | $740,671 | 66 |
| Shenandoah County | $708,354 | 61 |
What the Farm Service Agency paid in Virginia · Federal awards recorded in Halifax County
Sources
- USDA Farm Service Agency — farm program payment files — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency · U.S. Government work. USDA states no licence on the payment-files page itself; its site-wide Digital Rights and Copyright notice reads "Most information presented on the USDA Web site is considered public domain information. Public domain information may be freely distributed or copied, but use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested. Attribution may be cited as follows: 'U.S. Department of Agriculture.'" It carves out third-party material — "Some materials on the USDA Web site are protected by copyright, trademark, or patent … USDA has made every attempt to identify and clearly label them" — which does not reach these files: they are FSA's own administrative record of disbursements it made, and are not labelled otherwise. The attribution is honoured rather than treated as optional: every page naming a figure from this file names the publisher and links the file. Read 22 September 2026 from a December 2024 archive snapshot, because usda.gov/policies-and-links returns 403 to scripted agents. · retrieved September 22, 2026
- Census Bureau county population estimates — U.S. Census Bureau · U.S. Government work, and the publisher's own words rather than recalled ones. The Census Bureau's Open Government page says: "The U.S. Census Bureau publishes its data as open data, meaning it is freely available for use and re-use by the public" — https://www.census.gov/about/policies/open-gov.html, read 23 September 2026. Its citation policy asks to be credited: "Proper citation ensures that Census Bureau statistical products and research can be discovered, reused, replicated for verification, and credited for recognition" — https://www.census.gov/about/policies/citation.html, same date. That is honoured rather than treated as optional: every page carrying a county figure from this file names the U.S. Census Bureau. · retrieved September 23, 2026
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