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Livestock Forage Program
As published by USDA: LIVESTOCK FORAGE PROGRAM
The Farm Service Agency paid $382.8 million under Livestock Forage Program in 2025, across 51,880 payments — 1.6% of everything it paid that year, and the 9th largest of 71 programs.
Livestock Forage Program in 2025
- $382.8 million
- Paid out
- $382,782,673
- 1.6% of the $24.4 billion USDA paid under all programs that year.
- 51,880
- Payments
- One row of USDA’s file is one disbursement, not one recipient.
- At least 44,922
- Recipients
- Counted by name and mailing address exactly as USDA published them.
- 2835
- Accounting code
- FSA’s own numbering, which is what identifies a program in the file.
Livestock Forage Program, year by year
Every year USDA’s files record a payment under code 2835, the latest first: 12 years, from 2014. A year is titled by the description carrying most of its money, and a year whose file covers fewer than twelve months says so.
USDA paid $382.8 million under Livestock Forage Program in 2025, its latest year, and $4.4 billion in 2014, its first
What the Farm Service Agency paid under this accounting code in each year its files record a payment, in each year’s own dollars. A year with no payment under the code is a gap.
Source: The Farm Service Agency
About this chart
The figures
| Year | Paid out |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $382.8 million |
| 2024 | $1.1 billion |
| 2023 | $1.8 billion |
| 2022 | $1.6 billion |
| 2021 | $656.5 million |
| 2020 | $221.8 million |
| 2019 | $165.1 million |
| 2018 | $454.8 million |
| 2017 | $410.2 million |
| 2016 | $389.6 million |
| 2015 | $1.3 billion |
| 2014 | $4.4 billion |
2 more columns on a wider screen
| Year | Paid out | Share of that year |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $382.8 million$382,782,673 | 1.6% |
| 2024 | $1.1 billion$1,051,216,970 | 16.2% |
| 2023 | $1.8 billion$1,756,184,266 | 19.2% |
| 2022 | $1.6 billion$1,616,178,367 | 12.7% |
| 2021 | $656.5 million$656,460,226 | 4.1% |
| 2020 | $221.8 million$221,807,452 | 0.6% |
| 2019 | $165.1 million$165,144,961 | 0.8% |
| 2018 | $454.8 million$454,770,798 | 3.7% |
| 2017 | $410.2 million$410,187,647 | 4.2% |
| 2016 | $389.6 million$389,613,023 | 3.6% |
| 2015 | $1.3 billion$1,278,059,067 | 15.0% |
| 2014 | $4.4 billion$4,396,982,617 | 59.6% |
Where the money went
The states this program paid most in are on each state’s own page, which lists every program that state was paid under. The published file records a program against a payment and a payment against a county office, so a state’s programs are the honest cut of it.
The largest programs in 2025
| Program | Paid out | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| Emergency Commodity Assistance Program | $9.4 billion$9,359,802,855 | 1,144,558 |
| Supplemental Disaster Relief Non-Specialty Crops 1 | $5.4 billion$5,398,191,366 | 401,339 |
| Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops | $1.9 billion$1,892,943,660 | 98,912 |
| Agricultural Risk Coverage Program - County | $1.9 billion$1,854,434,480 | 1,011,801 |
| CRP Payment - Annual Rental | $1.8 billion$1,810,041,835 | 660,003 |
| Emergency Livestock Relief Program-2023-24 | $1.0 billion$1,040,705,188 | 347,756 |
| Emergency Assistance Livestock Bees Fish (ELAP) | $658.4 million$658,371,282 | 11,926 |
| Supplemental Disaster Relief Specialty Crops 1 | $521.4 million$521,365,686 | 22,134 |
| Price Loss Coverage | $245.8 million$245,770,527 | 167,055 |
| Livestock Forage Disaster Program (COF) | $219.6 million$219,643,794 | 34,539 |
Sources
- Farm program payment files — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 24, 2026
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