Exhibit 659

USDA Market Facilitation Program: Oversight of Future Supplemental Assistance to Farmers Could Be Improved (GAO-22-104259)

Exhibit 659 · GAO report

USDA Market Facilitation Program: Oversight of Future Supplemental Assistance to Farmers Could Be Improved (GAO-22-104259)

FSA also paid $163.4 million (0.7 percent) to 883 high-income farms and 1,164 farmers with adjusted gross incomes (AGI) over $900,000 per year.

MFP made payments totaling $23 billion for 2018 and 2019. Historically underserved farmers received $818.9 million (3.6 percent). FSA paid $163.4 million (0.7 percent) to 883 high-income farms and 1,164 farmers with adjusted gross incomes over $900,000; applicants above the cap were eligible if at least 75 percent of income came from farming, ranching or forestry. FSA's review of 2018 payments was limited in usefulness, and FSA discontinued its 2019 compliance review. FSA generally agreed with four recommendations.

Source: U.S. Government Accountability Office
Date: January 2022
Quoted from: Highlights, p. 2 of PDF
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-22-104259.pdf
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit

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Finding AGR-3.10: Primary record 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.
Finding AGR-3.11: Primary record 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.