About

The aim of farmsubsidy.org is to obtain detailed data relating to payments and recipients of farm subsidies in every EU member state and make this data available in a way that is useful to European citizens. Farmsubsidy.org is run by FragDenStaat, the central contact for all questions relating to freedom of information in Germany.

What are EU farm subsidies?

Farm subsidies are EU payments to public authorities, companies and farmers who are active in the agricultural sector and/or contribute to its maintenance. Subsidies are financed by taxpayers' money, primarily through the EU, but the Member States also contribute financially in a direct way. Subsidies are part of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which came into force in 1962.

Where does the data come from?

All the data presented on this website has either been published directly by EU country governments, or obtained from them by freedom of information requests.

Please note that our numbers only summarise the contents of our database and are not official statistics. Plus, due to legal reasons, not all data is public on this platform.

Because of this limitations and different levels of data quality, official numbers published by governments or in media stories might (slightly) differ from what you find on this website and are most likely a bit higher.

It's general a good idea to consider our numbers and aggregations as minimum values.