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Farm subsidies in Wise County, Texas
The Farm Service Agency paid 513 recipients $1.4 million through its Wise office in 2025, across 669 payments — 0.1% of what it paid in Texas.
Wise County in 2025
- $1.4 million
- Paid out
- $1,407,951
- 2,072 of 3,068 county offices nationally, and 165 of 254 counties in Texas by what the office paid.
- 513
- Recipients
- Name and mailing address as published, counted once however many payments.
- 669
- Payments
- One row of USDA’s file is one disbursement, not one recipient.
- $17
- Per resident
- Over the Census Bureau's 83,778 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 Wise and numbers it 497 within state 48, which is its own numbering and not the Census Bureau’s. The FIPS code for Wise County is 48497.
The recipients this office paid the most
The 10 recipients with the largest net total through the Wise office in 2025, each linked to its page. A recipient is a name and mailing address as published, wherever the address is.
| Recipient | Paid out | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| Marshall Bain Fortenberry | $86,053 | 5 |
| Danny Charles Taylor | $81,561 | 6 |
| Greenwood Cattle Company LLC | $58,010 | 4 |
| Sandford Ranches, LLC | $57,089 | 7 |
| Clifton Wade Brown | $49,554 | 2 |
| Daniel K McCurdy | $45,483 | 6 |
| Rick Wilson | $45,267 | 5 |
| Danny E Hodges | $39,143 | 2 |
| Tony L Davidson | $33,105 | 3 |
| Garrett & Garrett | $30,664 | 4 |
What Texas 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 Texas’s figures and not this office’s.
| Program | Paid out | Recipients |
|---|---|---|
| Emergency Commodity Assistance Program | $825.2 million$825,226,464 | 34,013 |
| Supplemental Disaster Relief Non-Specialty Crops 1 | $561.7 million$561,739,464 | 22,801 |
| Emergency Livestock Relief Program-2023-24 | $148.7 million$148,708,576 | 36,540 |
| Agricultural Risk Coverage Program - County | $87.9 million$87,885,768 | 16,994 |
| CRP Payment - Annual Rental | $68.9 million$68,850,403 | 8,593 |
| Livestock Forage Disaster Program (COF) | $41.4 million$41,448,862 | 8,204 |
| Non-Insured Assistance Program | $40.2 million$40,163,952 | 7,008 |
| Emergency Assistance Livestock Bees Fish (ELAP) | $39.4 million$39,438,094 | 1,210 |
The largest counties in Texas
| County | Paid out | Recipients |
|---|---|---|
| Gaines County | $89.7 million$89,692,673 | 988 |
| Dawson County | $60.3 million$60,333,378 | 1,415 |
| Hale County | $55.0 million$55,012,298 | 1,434 |
| Lubbock County | $52.4 million$52,402,445 | 1,655 |
| Lamb County | $51.9 million$51,886,658 | 1,310 |
| Terry County | $50.0 million$50,009,675 | 1,104 |
| Hockley County | $49.5 million$49,534,504 | 1,383 |
| Lynn County | $47.2 million$47,170,481 | 1,141 |
| Floyd County | $38.6 million$38,631,071 | 1,159 |
| Castro County | $33.9 million$33,920,902 | 659 |
What the Farm Service Agency paid in Texas · Federal awards recorded in Wise County · PPP loans in Wise County · Medicare plans in Wise County
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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