Dent County, Missouri Farm Subsidies

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Dent County in Missouri received $3.0M in USDA Farm Service Agency payments across 1,064 individual payments from 2017 to 2025.

📊 County Rank

National Rank

#2618 of 3087

Rank in Missouri

#107 of 115

Total Subsidies

$3.0M

Payments

1,064

Peak Year

2020

$1.8M

Avg Payment

$3K

39% below national avg

💡 Key Insight

Dent County's peak subsidy year was 2020 at $1.8M. COVID-era spending in 2020 ($1.8M) was 46.8× the 2017 baseline. The average payment of $3K is 39% below the national average.

Yearly Trend

Yearly Subsidy Trend

Year-by-Year Breakdown

YearSubsidiesPaymentsAvg Payment
2025$551K39$14K
2024$23K26$876
2023$47K34$1K
2022$12K9$1K
2021$364K188$2K
2020$1.8M662$3K
2019$25K36$695
2018$135K38$4K
2017$39K32$1K

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About Farm Subsidies in Dent County

Dent County, Missouri 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 $3.0M across 1,064 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, Dent 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.