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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

Farm program payments in California by program, 2025
ProgramPaid outRecipientsPayments
Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops$504,979,4569,73118,244
Emergency Assistance Livestock Bees Fish (ELAP)$374,109,3247411,210
Supplemental Disaster Relief Specialty Crops 1$113,228,4752,6723,657
Emergency Commodity Assistance Program$66,096,3773,1465,979
Emergency Livestock Relief Program-2023-24$19,354,0981,9222,330
Supplemental Disaster Relief Non-Specialty Crops 1$16,768,278618824
ECPSFCOF$10,790,826152227
Price Loss Coverage$7,622,3066171,280
ECPCOF$3,780,6252742
WECPCOF$3,082,1881322

Every county office

Farm program payments in California by county office, 2025
CountyPaid outRecipientsPayments
Tulare County$191,299,2171,4643,569
Merced County$118,288,6571,1553,001
Fresno County$92,936,7871,2942,373
San Joaquin County$91,260,5941,1862,761
Stanislaus County$88,885,3241,2902,876
Kern County$87,807,2334851,094
Kings County$53,163,157365965
Madera County$48,917,5584911,052
Colusa County$41,352,2678262,274
Monterey County$34,758,633264480
Sutter County$31,836,2727211,696
Butte County$26,730,7257872,008
Glenn County$19,558,3347181,734
Yolo County$19,079,707333710
Riverside County$17,902,702166370
Imperial County$17,641,880152385
Ventura County$16,652,711179320
Santa Barbara County$15,796,938176311
San Luis Obispo County$15,672,065469981
Sacramento County$13,538,423235604
Tehama County$9,090,420293559
Sonoma County$7,375,443273479
Santa Cruz County$6,760,6264773
Yuba County$6,736,269203422
Solano County$6,407,501161315
Mendocino County$6,189,166189393
Napa County$4,898,619142254
San Bernardino County$4,770,1155098
Modoc County$4,704,944177302
San Diego County$4,571,08195171
Siskiyou County$4,519,815182322
Lake County$3,016,87975155
Placer County$2,420,30948107
Los Angeles County$2,296,96653100
San Benito County$2,055,05074118
San Mateo County$1,842,5611016
Santa Clara County$1,730,71778129
Contra Costa County$1,697,8544665
Humboldt County$1,544,405147189
Mono County$1,373,1841829
Amador County$1,241,3216396
Mariposa County$1,203,4878796
Inyo County$702,5091626
Shasta County$675,22079107
Lassen County$553,555122181
Alameda County$533,8164970
Calaveras County$490,4534757
Alpine County$414,36639
Del Norte County$382,712510
Marin County$375,6458293
El Dorado County$342,5753366
Tuolumne County$314,5773741
Trinity County$267,22859
Orange County$256,966814
Nevada County$167,9701926
Plumas County$144,4383844
Sierra County$58,9412931

The largest recipients in California

The largest recipients of farm program payments in California, 2025
RecipientWherePaidPayments
California Dairy Farms GpHilmar$5,055,6034
Poso Creek Family Dairy LlcWasco$4,533,7305
Channel Islands Dairy Farms LlcLong Beach$4,373,2752
Wallace BrothersSutter$3,744,6759
T&P FarmsArbuckle$3,570,29712
Jds RanchTipton$3,562,9051
Bidart Dairy Ii LlcBakersfield$3,291,7504
J & D Wilson & Sons Dairy LpRiverdale$3,248,9563
Dixie Creek RanchHanford$3,155,2864
Williams Family Dairy LlcTipton$3,117,7558

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.

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

Data retrieved