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 70 programs.
American Factbook Research
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.
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 | $9,359,802,855 | 1,144,558 |
| Supplemental Disaster Relief Non-Specialty Crops 1 | $5,398,191,366 | 401,339 |
| Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops | $1,892,943,660 | 98,912 |
| Agricultural Risk Coverage Program - County | $1,854,434,480 | 1,011,801 |
| CRP Payment - Annual Rental | $1,810,041,835 | 660,003 |
| Emergency Livestock Relief Program-2023-24 | $1,040,705,188 | 347,756 |
| Emergency Assistance Livestock Bees Fish (ELAP) | $658,371,282 | 11,926 |
| Supplemental Disaster Relief Specialty Crops 1 | $521,365,686 | 22,134 |
| Price Loss Coverage | $245,770,527 | 167,055 |
| Livestock Forage Disaster Program (COF) | $219,643,794 | 34,539 |
Sources
- USDA Farm Service Agency — farm program payment files — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 23, 2026
- Census Bureau county population estimates — U.S. Census Bureau · U.S. Government work
Data retrieved