Farm subsidies in California
The Farm Service Agency paid 15,434 recipients in California $1.1 billion in 2025, across 34,836 payments through 57 county offices — 4.7% of what it paid nationally.
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California in 2025
- $1.1 billion
- Paid out
- $1,135,206,884
- 4.7% of the national total, which was $24.4 billion.
- 15,434
- Recipients
- Name and mailing address as published, counted once however many payments.
- 34,836
- Payments
- One row is one disbursement, not one recipient and not one year.
- 57
- County offices
- The offices that administered the payments, not a count of farming counties.
What the payments were for
| Program | Paid out | Recipients | Payments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops | $504,979,456 | 9,731 | 18,244 |
| Emergency Assistance Livestock Bees Fish (ELAP) | $374,109,324 | 741 | 1,210 |
| Supplemental Disaster Relief Specialty Crops 1 | $113,228,475 | 2,672 | 3,657 |
| Emergency Commodity Assistance Program | $66,096,377 | 3,146 | 5,979 |
| Emergency Livestock Relief Program-2023-24 | $19,354,098 | 1,922 | 2,330 |
| Supplemental Disaster Relief Non-Specialty Crops 1 | $16,768,278 | 618 | 824 |
| ECPSFCOF | $10,790,826 | 152 | 227 |
| Price Loss Coverage | $7,622,306 | 617 | 1,280 |
| ECPCOF | $3,780,625 | 27 | 42 |
| WECPCOF | $3,082,188 | 13 | 22 |
Every county office
| County | Paid out | Recipients | Payments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tulare County | $191,299,217 | 1,464 | 3,569 |
| Merced County | $118,288,657 | 1,155 | 3,001 |
| Fresno County | $92,936,787 | 1,294 | 2,373 |
| San Joaquin County | $91,260,594 | 1,186 | 2,761 |
| Stanislaus County | $88,885,324 | 1,290 | 2,876 |
| Kern County | $87,807,233 | 485 | 1,094 |
| Kings County | $53,163,157 | 365 | 965 |
| Madera County | $48,917,558 | 491 | 1,052 |
| Colusa County | $41,352,267 | 826 | 2,274 |
| Monterey County | $34,758,633 | 264 | 480 |
| Sutter County | $31,836,272 | 721 | 1,696 |
| Butte County | $26,730,725 | 787 | 2,008 |
| Glenn County | $19,558,334 | 718 | 1,734 |
| Yolo County | $19,079,707 | 333 | 710 |
| Riverside County | $17,902,702 | 166 | 370 |
| Imperial County | $17,641,880 | 152 | 385 |
| Ventura County | $16,652,711 | 179 | 320 |
| Santa Barbara County | $15,796,938 | 176 | 311 |
| San Luis Obispo County | $15,672,065 | 469 | 981 |
| Sacramento County | $13,538,423 | 235 | 604 |
| Tehama County | $9,090,420 | 293 | 559 |
| Sonoma County | $7,375,443 | 273 | 479 |
| Santa Cruz County | $6,760,626 | 47 | 73 |
| Yuba County | $6,736,269 | 203 | 422 |
| Solano County | $6,407,501 | 161 | 315 |
| Mendocino County | $6,189,166 | 189 | 393 |
| Napa County | $4,898,619 | 142 | 254 |
| San Bernardino County | $4,770,115 | 50 | 98 |
| Modoc County | $4,704,944 | 177 | 302 |
| San Diego County | $4,571,081 | 95 | 171 |
| Siskiyou County | $4,519,815 | 182 | 322 |
| Lake County | $3,016,879 | 75 | 155 |
| Placer County | $2,420,309 | 48 | 107 |
| Los Angeles County | $2,296,966 | 53 | 100 |
| San Benito County | $2,055,050 | 74 | 118 |
| San Mateo County | $1,842,561 | 10 | 16 |
| Santa Clara County | $1,730,717 | 78 | 129 |
| Contra Costa County | $1,697,854 | 46 | 65 |
| Humboldt County | $1,544,405 | 147 | 189 |
| Mono County | $1,373,184 | 18 | 29 |
| Amador County | $1,241,321 | 63 | 96 |
| Mariposa County | $1,203,487 | 87 | 96 |
| Inyo County | $702,509 | 16 | 26 |
| Shasta County | $675,220 | 79 | 107 |
| Lassen County | $553,555 | 122 | 181 |
| Alameda County | $533,816 | 49 | 70 |
| Calaveras County | $490,453 | 47 | 57 |
| Alpine County | $414,366 | 3 | 9 |
| Del Norte County | $382,712 | 5 | 10 |
| Marin County | $375,645 | 82 | 93 |
| El Dorado County | $342,575 | 33 | 66 |
| Tuolumne County | $314,577 | 37 | 41 |
| Trinity County | $267,228 | 5 | 9 |
| Orange County | $256,966 | 8 | 14 |
| Nevada County | $167,970 | 19 | 26 |
| Plumas County | $144,438 | 38 | 44 |
| Sierra County | $58,941 | 29 | 31 |
The largest recipients in California
| Recipient | Where | Paid | Payments |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Dairy Farms Gp | Hilmar | $5,055,603 | 4 |
| Poso Creek Family Dairy Llc | Wasco | $4,533,730 | 5 |
| Channel Islands Dairy Farms Llc | Long Beach | $4,373,275 | 2 |
| Wallace Brothers | Sutter | $3,744,675 | 9 |
| T&P Farms | Arbuckle | $3,570,297 | 12 |
| Jds Ranch | Tipton | $3,562,905 | 1 |
| Bidart Dairy Ii Llc | Bakersfield | $3,291,750 | 4 |
| J & D Wilson & Sons Dairy Lp | Riverdale | $3,248,956 | 3 |
| Dixie Creek Ranch | Hanford | $3,155,286 | 4 |
| Williams Family Dairy Llc | Tipton | $3,117,755 | 8 |
Counties in California, side by side
The closest pairs among the state’s largest county offices. Any two counties compare on demand; these are the ones in the sitemap, because a page a crawler is offered has to be a page something links to.
- Tulare County and Merced County
- Merced County and Fresno County
- Fresno County and San Joaquin County
- San Joaquin County and Stanislaus County
- Stanislaus County and Kern County
- Kern County and Kings County
- Kings County and Madera County
- Madera County and Colusa County
- Colusa County and Monterey County
- Monterey County and Sutter County
California elsewhere on the Factbook
- Reported crimeCrime and justice
Offenses reported to police by type, the trend, and the reporting coverage.
- Cities by violent crime rateCrime and justice
What each agency serving 25,000 or more reported, ranked. Agency populations overlap, so these do not add up to the state.
- Prison populationCrime and justice
People held under the state’s correctional authority, and the imprisonment rate. A different publisher counting a different thing.
- Arrests by race, sex and ageCrime and justice
Arrests as the FBI’s participating agencies reported them, with what the figures can and cannot support at the top.
- Hate crimeCrime and justice
Incidents reported to the FBI by bias motivation, as counts — the collection publishes no participation share, so there is no rate to compare states on.
- Federal obligationsFederal spending
What federal agencies obligated against a place of performance in the state, per resident and by agency.
- Registered nonprofitsNonprofits
How many organizations the IRS lists in the state, what they report as revenue, and which kinds of work they do.
- Payments to doctorsHealth
What drug and device companies reported paying doctors with a practice address in the state, and the largest recipients.
- Immigration courtsImmigration and the border
The EOIR courts sitting in the state, what they completed and still have pending, and how far apart their asylum grant rates are. The courts, not the state’s residents: a detention court hears cases from far outside it.
- The California Factbook entryAcross the Factbook
Every measure the Factbook publishes for this state in one place, each with where it ranks among the others and the record it came from.
The immigration link above is EOIR’s courts, which sit in this state. CBP’s encounters are not by state and will not be: its sectors and field offices are areas of responsibility rather than a geography, and assigning them to states would be a claim the data does not make. Immigration and the border.
Sources
- USDA Farm Service Agency — farm program payment files — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 23, 2026
- Census Bureau county population estimates — U.S. Census Bureau · U.S. Government work
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