Mark E Steffens
The Farm Service Agency recorded $156.8 thousand paid to Mark E Steffens of DECORAH, IA in 2011 to 2025, across 56 payments under 16 programs.
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What the record holds
- $156.8 thousand
- Paid
- $156,776
- Net of any repayment. This payee has none on record.
- 56
- Payments
- One row of USDA’s file is one disbursement, not one year and not one program.
- 16
- Programs
- Named in the file itself, so this is what the money was for as USDA records it.
- 1
- County offices
- The offices that administered the payments, which is not where any land is.
The mailing address USDA holds for payment is 1410 185TH ST, DECORAH, IA 521017562. It is where a cheque goes, not where a farm is: a payee can be addressed to an accountant in another state.
What the payments were for
| Program | Paid | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| AGRICULTURAL RISK COVERAGE PROG - COUNTY | $45,611 | 10 |
| TMP/MFP 2019 NON SPECIALTY CROPS | $20,965 | 3 |
| EMERGENCY COMMODITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | $16,037 | 2 |
| CFAPCCA2 | $15,092 | 1 |
| MARKET FACILITATION PROGRAM - CROPS | $14,156 | 2 |
| INCOME LOSS - MILK, PART 2 | $9,444 | 16 |
| CFAP3 - TUP | $8,735 | 1 |
| PRICE LOSS COVERAGE PROGRAM | $6,019 | 4 |
| CFAPCCCCA | $5,747 | 2 |
| CFAPCARES | $5,712 | 2 |
| MARGIN PROTECTION PROGRAM - DAIRY | $4,673 | 6 |
| WHIP PLUS 3 ASSISTANCE | $2,963 | 1 |
| LIVESTOCK FORAGE PROGRAM | $698 | 2 |
| CROP ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | $386 | 1 |
| CFAP3 - LTU | $279 | 1 |
| EMERGENCY LIVESTOCK RELIEF PRGM-2023-24 | $259 | 2 |
By year
| Year | Paid | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $16,296 | 4 |
| 2024 | $283 | 1 |
| 2023 | $415 | 1 |
| 2021 | $9,014 | 2 |
| 2020 | $40,774 | 11 |
| 2019 | $15,724 | 2 |
| 2018 | $14,156 | 2 |
| 2017 | $521 | 2 |
| 2016 | $25,995 | 6 |
| 2015 | $23,768 | 8 |
| 2013 | $3,475 | 9 |
| 2012 | $5,969 | 7 |
| 2011 | $386 | 1 |
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
| County | State | Paid | Payments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winneshiek | Iowa | $156,776 | 56 |
Sources
- USDA Farm Service Agency — farm program payment files — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency · U.S. Government work. USDA states no licence on the payment-files page itself; its site-wide Digital Rights and Copyright notice reads "Most information presented on the USDA Web site is considered public domain information. Public domain information may be freely distributed or copied, but use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested. Attribution may be cited as follows: 'U.S. Department of Agriculture.'" It carves out third-party material — "Some materials on the USDA Web site are protected by copyright, trademark, or patent … USDA has made every attempt to identify and clearly label them" — which does not reach these files: they are FSA's own administrative record of disbursements it made, and are not labelled otherwise. The attribution is honoured rather than treated as optional: every page naming a figure from this file names the publisher and links the file. Read 22 September 2026 from a December 2024 archive snapshot, because usda.gov/policies-and-links returns 403 to scripted agents. · retrieved September 22, 2026
- Census Bureau county population estimates — U.S. Census Bureau · U.S. Government work, and the publisher's own words rather than recalled ones. The Census Bureau's Open Government page says: "The U.S. Census Bureau publishes its data as open data, meaning it is freely available for use and re-use by the public" — https://www.census.gov/about/policies/open-gov.html, read 23 September 2026. Its citation policy asks to be credited: "Proper citation ensures that Census Bureau statistical products and research can be discovered, reused, replicated for verification, and credited for recognition" — https://www.census.gov/about/policies/citation.html, same date. That is honoured rather than treated as optional: every page carrying a county figure from this file names the U.S. Census Bureau. · retrieved September 23, 2026
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