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Livestock Forage Disaster Program (COF)

As published by USDA: LIVESTOCK FORAGE DISASTER PROGRAM (COF)

The Farm Service Agency paid $219.6 million under Livestock Forage Disaster Program (COF) in 2025, across 34,539 payments — 0.9% of everything it paid that year, and the 11th largest of 70 programs.

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Livestock Forage Disaster Program (COF) in 2025

$219.6 million
Paid out
$219,643,794
0.9% of the $24.4 billion USDA paid under all programs that year.
34,539
Payments
One row of USDA’s file is one disbursement, not one recipient.
At least 28,685
Recipients
Counted by name and mailing address exactly as USDA published them.
2940
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

Farm program payments by program, 2025
ProgramPaid outPayments
Emergency Commodity Assistance Program$9,359,802,8551,144,558
Supplemental Disaster Relief Non-Specialty Crops 1$5,398,191,366401,339
Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops$1,892,943,66098,912
Agricultural Risk Coverage Program - County$1,854,434,4801,011,801
CRP Payment - Annual Rental$1,810,041,835660,003
Emergency Livestock Relief Program-2023-24$1,040,705,188347,756
Emergency Assistance Livestock Bees Fish (ELAP)$658,371,28211,926
Supplemental Disaster Relief Specialty Crops 1$521,365,68622,134
Livestock Forage Program$382,782,67351,880
Price Loss Coverage$245,770,527167,055

Sources

Data retrieved