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Margin Protection Program - Dairy

As published by USDA: MARGIN PROTECTION PROGRAM - DAIRY

The Farm Service Agency paid $278.0 million under Margin Protection Program - Dairy over 9 years, 2015 to 2023, most of it in 2018 ($253.2 million). 2023 is the latest year it was paid: $278 across 1 payment, < 0.1% of everything it paid that year. The site’s latest is 2025.

Margin Protection Program - Dairy in 2023

$278
Paid out: < 0.1% of the $9.2 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.; 8025
Accounting code: FSA’s own numbering, which is what identifies a program in the file.

Margin Protection Program - Dairy, year by year

Every year USDA’s files record a payment under code 8025, the latest first: 9 years, from 2015. 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 $278 under Margin Protection Program - Dairy in 2023, its latest year, and $651,839 in 2015, 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

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The figures

USDA paid $278 under Margin Protection Program - Dairy in 2023, its latest year, and $651,839 in 2015, 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.
Year	Paid out
2023	$278
2022	$4,205
2021	$6,058
2020	$121,506
2019	$13.5 million
2018	$253.2 million
2017	$34,892
2016	$10.5 million
2015	$651,839

2 more columns on a wider screen

Farm program payments under code 8025, by year
Year	Paid out	Share of that year	Payments	Recipients, at least
2023	$278	< 0.1%	1	1
2022	$4,205	< 0.1%	5	5
2021	$6,058	< 0.1%	7	7
2020	$121,506	< 0.1%	32	25
2019	$13.5 million$13,489,736	0.1%	22,899	22,271
2018	$253.2 million$253,242,018	2.1%	120,572	22,813
2017	$34,892	< 0.1%	39	37
2016	$10.5 million$10,460,986	0.1%	5,339	4,904
2015	$651,839	< 0.1%	872	264

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
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

Compiled automatically from Farm program payment files by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

Data retrieved September 24, 2026