Exhibit 658 · GAO report
USDA Market Facilitation Program: Information on Payments for 2019 (GAO-20-700R)
MFP payments for 2019 were about $14.4 billion
2019 MFP payments were $14,368,406,309 to 643,965 farming operations (870,427 individuals), an average of $22,312 per operation. Nonspecialty crops received about $13.5 billion (94 percent), specialty crops about $274 million (2 percent), dairy and hogs about $566 million (4 percent). The 2019 program doubled the payment limit to $250,000 per commodity type and up to $500,000 per person, producing about $519 million in additional payments. The 25 operations with the highest payments received about $37 million. Rates ranged from 56.3 percent of projected price (sorghum) to 1.1 percent (dairy).
- Source
- U.S. Government Accountability Office
- Date
- 21 August 2020
- Quoted from
- p. 3 of PDF
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/709030.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit