Farm subsidies in Massachusetts
The Farm Service Agency paid 694 recipients in Massachusetts $11.5 million in 2023, across 2,104 payments through 14 county offices — 0.1% of what it paid nationally.
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Massachusetts in 2023
- $11.5 million
- Paid out
- $11,499,293
- 0.1% of the national total, which was $9.2 billion.
- 694
- Recipients
- Name and mailing address as published, counted once however many payments.
- 2,104
- Payments
- One row is one disbursement, not one recipient and not one year.
- 14
- County offices
- The offices that administered the payments, not a count of farming counties.
What the payments were for
| Program | Paid out | Recipients | Payments |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAIRY MARGIN COVERAGE | $3,905,817 | 80 | 754 |
| EMERG ASSIST LIVESTOCK BEES FISH (ELAP) | $2,849,167 | 16 | 19 |
| EMERGENCY RELIEF PRGM 2 | $1,046,474 | 23 | 39 |
| ECPCOF | $680,943 | 35 | 38 |
| CFAPCCA2 | $567,966 | 244 | 244 |
| WEB-BASED NAP | $382,664 | 22 | 23 |
| PANDEMIC ASSISTANCE REVENUE PROGRAM | $376,762 | 69 | 69 |
| EMGNCY RELIEF PRGM-NONSPECIALITY CROPS | $364,168 | 5 | 5 |
| LIVESTOCK FORAGE PROGRAM | $288,416 | 169 | 193 |
| NAP REGULAR WEB-BASED | $190,944 | 6 | 9 |
Every county office
| County | Paid out | Recipients | Payments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middlesex County | $2,609,324 | 50 | 138 |
| Worcester County | $1,392,298 | 169 | 491 |
| Bristol County | $1,315,807 | 123 | 330 |
| Franklin County | $1,252,996 | 83 | 323 |
| Hampshire County | $1,095,594 | 61 | 253 |
| Berkshire County | $904,922 | 55 | 220 |
| Plymouth County | $868,344 | 44 | 95 |
| Hampden County | $760,657 | 27 | 88 |
| Essex County | $629,969 | 21 | 80 |
| Barnstable County | $558,549 | 37 | 49 |
| Norfolk County | $73,307 | 17 | 23 |
| Dukes County | $19,255 | 5 | 6 |
| Suffolk County | $14,830 | 4 | 5 |
| Nantucket County | $3,441 | 3 | 3 |
The largest recipients in Massachusetts
| Recipient | Where | Paid | Payments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evergreen Honey Co Inc | BILLERICA | $1,675,067 | 2 |
| Merrimack Valley Apiaries Inc | BILLERICA | $373,945 | 2 |
| Gregory D Morris | DUXBURY | $312,817 | 1 |
| Devine Farms Inc | HADLEY | $278,326 | 17 |
| Hinckley Farms Llc | WESTFIELD | $261,875 | 2 |
| James Davenport | SOUTH DENNIS | $215,066 | 3 |
| Spindrift Oysters, Llc | WESTPORT | $190,722 | 2 |
| Golden Hour Farms, Llc | TAUNTON | $172,526 | 3 |
| Edlin Almeida Jr | REHOBOTH | $149,493 | 13 |
| Smolak Farms Llc | NORTH ANDOVER | $145,203 | 4 |
Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts 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. 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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