WHIP 3
The Farm Service Agency paid $606.4 thousand under WHIP 3 in 2025, across 8 payments — < 0.1% of everything it paid that year, and the 43th largest of 70 programs.
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WHIP 3 in 2025
- $606.4 thousand
- Paid out
- $606,353
- < 0.1% of the $24.4 billion USDA paid under all programs that year.
- 8
- Payments
- One row of USDA’s file is one disbursement, not one recipient.
- At least 5
- Recipients
- This code is published under 2 descriptions, and a recipient paid under two of them cannot be added without counting them twice.
- 2888
- Accounting code
- FSA’s own numbering, which is what identifies a program in the file.
What USDA calls this program
Code 2888 appears under 2 descriptions in the published file. They are listed rather than merged: two spellings of one program are what USDA published, and in some codes the descriptions are genuinely different lines — organic cost share is published separately for crops, livestock and wild crops.
| As published | Paid out | Recipients | Payments |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHIP 3 | $328,388 | 2 | 3 |
| WHIP PLUS 3 ASSISTANCE | $277,965 | 5 | 5 |
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 |
| Livestock Forage Program | $382,782,673 | 51,880 |
| Price Loss Coverage | $245,770,527 | 167,055 |
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