Ritchie County, West Virginia Farm Subsidies

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Ritchie County in West Virginia received $1.2M in USDA Farm Service Agency payments across 648 individual payments from 2017 to 2025.

📊 County Rank

National Rank

#2832 of 3087

Rank in West Virginia

#27 of 53

Total Subsidies

$1.2M

Payments

648

Peak Year

2024

$421K

Avg Payment

$2K

59% below national avg

💡 Key Insight

Ritchie County's peak subsidy year was 2024 at $421K. COVID-era spending in 2020 ($305K) was 75.1× the 2017 baseline. The average payment of $2K is 59% below the national average.

Yearly Trend

Yearly Subsidy Trend

Year-by-Year Breakdown

YearSubsidiesPaymentsAvg Payment
2025$362K169$2K
2024$421K83$5K
2023$7K21$319
2022$13K13$1K
2021$106K84$1K
2020$305K218$1K
2019$10K24$420
2018$15K24$633
2017$4K12$339

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About Farm Subsidies in Ritchie County

Ritchie County, West Virginia 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 $1.2M across 648 individual payments from Farm Service Agency programs including Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), Price Loss Coverage (PLC), Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC), and emergency assistance programs.

Ritchie County's subsidy payments peaked in 2024 at $421K.

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.