The Lacuna Project

lacuna (n.) a gap in a record where something should be

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Agency

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Inspector General

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • AGR-3.10: USDA distributed over $23 billion in Market Facilitation Program payments for 2018 and 2019 to more than 715,000 producers. GAO estimated that 2019 payments to corn producers were about $3 billion more than USDA’s own estimate of trade damage to corn.
  • AGR-3.11: FSA paid $163.4 million of Market Facilitation Program payments to 883 high-income farms and 1,164 farmers with adjusted gross incomes over $900,000, and discontinued its 2019 compliance review. USDA’s inspector general estimated that FSA overpaid 150,313 producers by a total of more than $57.2 million, about 0.25 percent of the $23.18 billion paid.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 661 9 March 2022. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Inspector General: Market Facilitation Program, Audit Report 03601-0003-31