Salem County, New Jersey Farm Subsidies

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Salem County in New Jersey received $37.5M in USDA Farm Service Agency payments across 6,835 individual payments from 2017 to 2025.

📊 County Rank

National Rank

#1233 of 3087

Rank in New Jersey

#1 of 16

Total Subsidies

$37.5M

Payments

6,835

Peak Year

2025

$9.4M

Avg Payment

$5K

18% above national avg

💡 Key Insight

Salem County's peak subsidy year was 2025 at $9.4M. COVID-era spending in 2020 ($8.6M) was 4.5× the 2017 baseline. The average payment of $5K is 18% above the national average.

Yearly Trend

Yearly Subsidy Trend

Year-by-Year Breakdown

YearSubsidiesPaymentsAvg Payment
2025$9.4M1,137$8K
2024$1.4M237$6K
2023$2.7M407$7K
2022$4.5M256$18K
2021$4.0M859$5K
2020$8.6M1,850$5K
2019$4.2M1,051$4K
2018$881K351$3K
2017$1.9M687$3K

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About Farm Subsidies in Salem County

Salem County, New Jersey 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 $37.5M across 6,835 individual payments from Farm Service Agency programs including Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), Price Loss Coverage (PLC), Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC), and emergency assistance programs.

Salem County's subsidy payments peaked in 2025 at $9.4M.

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.