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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.

American Factbook Research

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

Farm program payments in Massachusetts by program, 2023
ProgramPaid outRecipientsPayments
DAIRY MARGIN COVERAGE$3,905,81780754
EMERG ASSIST LIVESTOCK BEES FISH (ELAP)$2,849,1671619
EMERGENCY RELIEF PRGM 2$1,046,4742339
ECPCOF$680,9433538
CFAPCCA2$567,966244244
WEB-BASED NAP$382,6642223
PANDEMIC ASSISTANCE REVENUE PROGRAM$376,7626969
EMGNCY RELIEF PRGM-NONSPECIALITY CROPS$364,16855
LIVESTOCK FORAGE PROGRAM$288,416169193
NAP REGULAR WEB-BASED$190,94469

Every county office

Farm program payments in Massachusetts by county office, 2023
CountyPaid outRecipientsPayments
Middlesex County$2,609,32450138
Worcester County$1,392,298169491
Bristol County$1,315,807123330
Franklin County$1,252,99683323
Hampshire County$1,095,59461253
Berkshire County$904,92255220
Plymouth County$868,3444495
Hampden County$760,6572788
Essex County$629,9692180
Barnstable County$558,5493749
Norfolk County$73,3071723
Dukes County$19,25556
Suffolk County$14,83045
Nantucket County$3,44133

The largest recipients in Massachusetts

The largest recipients of farm program payments in Massachusetts, 2023
RecipientWherePaidPayments
Evergreen Honey Co IncBILLERICA$1,675,0672
Merrimack Valley Apiaries IncBILLERICA$373,9452
Gregory D MorrisDUXBURY$312,8171
Devine Farms IncHADLEY$278,32617
Hinckley Farms LlcWESTFIELD$261,8752
James DavenportSOUTH DENNIS$215,0663
Spindrift Oysters, LlcWESTPORT$190,7222
Golden Hour Farms, LlcTAUNTON$172,5263
Edlin Almeida JrREHOBOTH$149,49313
Smolak Farms LlcNORTH ANDOVER$145,2034

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 filesU.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 estimatesU.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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