Record · Recipient
Lavern Buff
The Farm Service Agency recorded $12,124 paid to Lavern Buff of Saint Elmo, IL in 2017 to 2025, across 16 payments under 8 programs.
What the record holds
- $12,124
- Paid
- Net of any repayment. This payee has none on record.
- 16
- Payments
- One row of USDA’s file is one disbursement, not one year and not one program.
- 8
- Programs
- Named in the file itself, so this is what the money was for as USDA records it.
- 1
- County office
- The offices that administered the payments, which need not be where the land is.
USDA mails this payee’s payments to Saint Elmo, IL 62458-4173. That is where a check goes, not where a farm is: a payee can be addressed to an accountant in another state. The street line is in FSA’s payment files, and not printed here.
How this compares
- Received, net: $12,124, 2017 to 2025
- By net total, ranks 2,064,970th of 6,246,979 payees nationally and 151,164th of 459,133 with an address in Illinois. More than 66% of the 6,246,979 payees in FSA’s payment files, 2004 to 2025, by net total received.
What the payments were for
| Program | Paid | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| Supplemental Disaster Relief Non-Specialty Crops 1 | $2,361 | 2 |
| Market Facilitation Program - Crops | $2,260 | 2 |
| Tmp/Mfp 2019 Non Specialty Crops | $1,977 | 3 |
| CRP Payment - Annual Rental | $1,608 | 2 |
| Agricultural Risk Coverage Program - County | $1,458 | 3 |
| Emergency Commodity Assistance Program | $1,044 | 2 |
| CFAPCCA2 | $805 | 1 |
| CFAP3 - TUP | $611 | 1 |
By year
USDA paid Lavern Buff $4,005 in 2025, its latest year, and $1,634 in 2017, its first
What the Farm Service Agency paid this payee in each calendar year, the year USDA disbursed the money, in each year’s own dollars. A year with no payment is a gap.
Source: The Farm Service Agency
About this chart
The figures
| Year | Paid |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $4,005 |
| 2021 | $611 |
| 2020 | $1,327 |
| 2019 | $1,483 |
| 2018 | $3,064 |
| 2017 | $1,634 |
| Year | Paid | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $4,005 | 5 |
| 2021 | $611 | 1 |
| 2020 | $1,327 | 3 |
| 2019 | $1,483 | 2 |
| 2018 | $3,064 | 3 |
| 2017 | $1,634 | 2 |
The calendar year USDA disbursed the money, which is frequently not the year of the program it was paid under. The site holds the years listed here and no others.
Which offices paid
3 more columns on a wider screen
| County | State | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Fayette | Illinois | $12,124 |
In 2025 the FSA office for Fayette County, IL paid $21.5 million, 300th of 3,068 county offices. Lavern Buff was paid < 0.1% of it that year. The county’s page has its payments, payees and what Illinois was paid for.
Nearby on this site
A payee's neighbours here are the other recipients paid through the same state's offices, not the farms next door: FSA publishes no location, only the address it pays.
- What the Farm Service Agency paid in Illinois
- Rinderer Farms Partnership $1.6 million
- Neumiller Farms Inc $1.2 million
- Dambacher Farms Partnership $1.0 million
- Jenks Family Farms $996,938
- Lenox Farms General Partnership $992,307
- Holmes Farms Gp $975,062
- Clesen Wholesale Inc $900,000
- Home Nursery Inc $900,000
The largest recipients Illinois's offices paid in 2025, which is one year rather than the years above.
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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