Hickory County, Missouri Farm Subsidies

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Hickory County in Missouri received $19.9M in USDA Farm Service Agency payments across 6,171 individual payments from 2017 to 2025.

📊 County Rank

National Rank

#1674 of 3087

Rank in Missouri

#82 of 115

Total Subsidies

$19.9M

Payments

6,171

Peak Year

2023

$4.4M

Avg Payment

$3K

30% below national avg

💡 Key Insight

Hickory County's peak subsidy year was 2023 at $4.4M. COVID-era spending in 2020 ($4.2M) was 18.7× the 2017 baseline. The average payment of $3K is 30% below the national average.

Yearly Trend

Yearly Subsidy Trend

Year-by-Year Breakdown

YearSubsidiesPaymentsAvg Payment
2025$3.1M964$3K
2024$2.2M832$3K
2023$4.4M1,076$4K
2022$2.6M408$6K
2021$988K455$2K
2020$4.2M1,341$3K
2019$674K358$2K
2018$1.6M586$3K
2017$223K151$1K

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About Farm Subsidies in Hickory County

Hickory 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 $19.9M across 6,171 individual payments from Farm Service Agency programs including Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), Price Loss Coverage (PLC), Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC), and emergency assistance programs.

Hickory County's subsidy payments peaked in 2023 at $4.4M.

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.