Pinal County, Arizona Farm Subsidies

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Pinal County in Arizona received $179.6M in USDA Farm Service Agency payments across 8,636 individual payments from 2017 to 2025.

📊 County Rank

National Rank

#96 of 3087

Rank in Arizona

#1 of 15

Total Subsidies

$179.6M

Payments

8,636

Peak Year

2020

$57.1M

Avg Payment

$21K

349% above national avg

💡 Key Insight

Pinal County's peak subsidy year was 2020 at $57.1M. COVID-era spending in 2020 ($57.1M) was 11.1× the 2017 baseline. The average payment of $21K is 349% above the national average.

Yearly Trend

Yearly Subsidy Trend

Year-by-Year Breakdown

YearSubsidiesPaymentsAvg Payment
2025$27.8M1,257$22K
2024$4.0M421$10K
2023$10.8M584$18K
2022$11.9M409$29K
2021$21.0M1,306$16K
2020$57.1M1,930$30K
2019$33.3M1,566$21K
2018$8.6M710$12K
2017$5.1M453$11K

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About Farm Subsidies in Pinal County

Pinal County, Arizona is one of 3,087 U.S. counties receiving USDA farm subsidy payments. Over the nine-year period from 2017 to 2025, the county received $179.6M across 8,636 individual payments from Farm Service Agency programs including Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), Price Loss Coverage (PLC), Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC), and emergency assistance programs.

Like many agricultural counties, Pinal County saw its peak subsidy payments in 2020 when the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) distributed emergency payments to offset pandemic-related losses.

Data on this page comes from USDA Farm Service Agency payment files, which are public records available under the Freedom of Information Act. All payment data is aggregated at the county level — individual recipient details are available on our top recipients page.