Farm subsidies in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
The Farm Service Agency paid 113 recipients $789.3 thousand through its Luzerne office in 2025, across 333 payments — 0.5% of what it paid in Pennsylvania.
Luzerne County in 2025
- $789.3 thousand
- Paid out
- $789,270
- 44 of 67 counties in Pennsylvania by what the office paid.
- 113
- Recipients
- Name and mailing address as published, counted once however many payments.
- 333
- Payments
- One row of USDA’s file is one disbursement, not one recipient.
- $2
- Per resident
- Over the Census Bureau's 332,126 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 Luzerne and numbers it 79 within state 42, which is its own numbering and not the Census Bureau’s. The FIPS code for Luzerne County is 42079.
What Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania’s figures and not this office’s.
| Program | Paid out | Recipients |
|---|---|---|
| Emergency Commodity Assistance Program | $63,916,600 | 6,300 |
| Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops | $33,923,572 | 840 |
| Supplemental Disaster Relief Non-Specialty Crops 1 | $22,190,052 | 1,873 |
| Agricultural Risk Coverage Program - County | $17,797,979 | 2,864 |
| CRP Payment - Annual Rental | $12,033,658 | 3,236 |
| Supplemental Disaster Relief Specialty Crops 1 | $9,556,473 | 148 |
| Livestock Forage Program | $1,272,361 | 384 |
| Emergency Assistance Livestock Bees Fish (ELAP) | $1,165,956 | 56 |
The largest counties in Pennsylvania
| County | Paid out | Recipients |
|---|---|---|
| Adams County | $17,482,493 | 342 |
| Chester County | $16,176,213 | 232 |
| Lancaster County | $10,891,567 | 690 |
| York County | $10,424,135 | 402 |
| Franklin County | $8,978,225 | 358 |
| Berks County | $6,323,220 | 452 |
| Erie County | $5,508,083 | 313 |
| Cumberland County | $4,275,522 | 286 |
| Bedford County | $3,856,727 | 249 |
| Schuylkill County | $3,702,545 | 249 |
What the Farm Service Agency paid in Pennsylvania · Federal awards recorded in Luzerne County
Sources
- Farm program payment files — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 24, 2026
- Census Bureau county population estimates — U.S. Census Bureau · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 23, 2026
Data retrieved