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Farm Programs: Information on Payments

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date May 18, 2018
Release Date May 18, 2018
Report No. GAO-18-34R
Summary:

USDA makes billions of dollars in payments to people and businesses that are actively engaged in farming, and who provide significant contributions of management and labor. Our review found that for 2015:

USDA made about $2.7 billion in payments, which were distributed among 95,417 farming operations;

The top 50 farming operations received an average of $884,495 in payments, and USDA paid $3.7 million to one such operation; and

USDA generally made the highest payments to partnerships. These are farming operations consisting of two or more people and formed under state law.

 

Photo of a soybean field.

Photo of a soybean field.

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