Edgecombe County, North Carolina Farm Subsidies

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Edgecombe County in North Carolina received $80.9M in USDA Farm Service Agency payments across 17,514 individual payments from 2017 to 2025.

📊 County Rank

National Rank

#667 of 3087

Rank in North Carolina

#3 of 100

Total Subsidies

$80.9M

Payments

17,514

Peak Year

2020

$19.2M

Avg Payment

$5K

Near national avg

💡 Key Insight

Edgecombe County's peak subsidy year was 2020 at $19.2M. COVID-era spending in 2020 ($19.2M) was 4.0× the 2017 baseline. The average payment of $5K is near the national average.

Yearly Trend

Yearly Subsidy Trend

Year-by-Year Breakdown

YearSubsidiesPaymentsAvg Payment
2025$15.1M2,687$6K
2024$4.4M305$14K
2023$2.4M210$11K
2022$10.2M922$11K
2021$8.4M2,905$3K
2020$19.2M2,998$6K
2019$13.7M3,382$4K
2018$2.9M1,995$1K
2017$4.8M2,110$2K

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About Farm Subsidies in Edgecombe County

Edgecombe County, North Carolina 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 $80.9M across 17,514 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, Edgecombe 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.