Forty-seven members of the House of Representatives are serving on a committee to hammer out a farm bill compromise with the Senate. They represent 1.7 million households that receive nutrition benefits and 230,000 farms that receive farm payments.

The average member of Congress who sits on the farm-bill conference committee has an estimated 36,000 constituents enrolled in the Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program, a Daily Yonder analysis of congressional district data shows. 

In 2016, those SNAP enrollees pulled an average of $142 million in assistance from the program into each of the 48 congressional districts represented on the committee. 

Each of those congressional districts also had an average of 4,900 farmers who participated in the government-subsidized crop insurance program. The program provided each district with an average of $55 million in benefits. 

The Daily Yonder calculated total SNAP payments in congressional district by multiplying the average per person SNAP benefit by the state-average household size.