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Dcp - Direct
As published by USDA: DCP - DIRECT
The Farm Service Agency paid $21.3 billion under Dcp - Direct over 10 years, 2009 to 2018, the most in 2010 ($4.4 billion). 2018 is the latest year it was paid: $986 across 1 payment, < 0.1% of everything it paid that year. The site’s latest is 2025.
Dcp - Direct in 2018
- $986
- Paid out
- < 0.1% of the $12.2 billion USDA paid under all programs that year.
- 1
- Payments
- One row of USDA’s file is one disbursement, not one recipient.
- At least 1
- Recipients
- Counted by name and mailing address exactly as USDA published them.
- 6742
- Accounting code
- FSA’s own numbering, which is what identifies a program in the file.
Dcp - Direct, year by year
Every year USDA’s files record a payment under code 6742, the latest first: 10 years, from 2009. 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 $986 under Dcp - Direct in 2018, its latest year, and $4.2 billion in 2009, 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 |
|---|---|
| 2018 | $986 |
| 2017 | $2.9 million |
| 2016 | $2.8 million |
| 2015 | $4.9 million |
| 2014 | $57.9 million |
| 2013 | $4.1 billion |
| 2012 | $4.2 billion |
| 2011 | $4.2 billion |
| 2010 | $4.4 billion |
| 2009 | $4.2 billion |
2 more columns on a wider screen
| Year | Paid out | Share of that year |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | $986 | < 0.1% |
| 2017 | $2.9 million$2,928,774 | < 0.1% |
| 2016 | $2.8 million$2,809,790 | < 0.1% |
| 2015 | $4.9 million$4,914,031 | 0.1% |
| 2014 | $57.9 million$57,875,280 | 0.8% |
| 2013 | $4.1 billion$4,096,787,111 | 47.8% |
| 2012 | $4.2 billion$4,247,966,025 | 51.4% |
| 2011 | $4.2 billion$4,235,016,208 | 52.5% |
| 2010 | $4.4 billion$4,361,471,978 | 41.1% |
| 2009 | $4.2 billion$4,246,274,464 | 42.5% |
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 | $9.4 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 |
| Livestock Forage Program | $382.8 million$382,782,673 | 51,880 |
| Price Loss Coverage | $245.8 million$245,770,527 | 167,055 |
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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