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Exhibit 657

Farm Programs: Information on Payments (GAO-18-384R)

Exhibit 657 · GAO report

Farm Programs: Information on Payments (GAO-18-384R)

Being actively engaged in farming is not required for numerous USDA program benefits. For example, being actively engaged in farming is not required for payments made through USDA’s conservation and disaster assistance programs or for participation in USDA’s federal crop insurance program.

Describes the actively engaged in farming test and the $125,000 per-member limit under the 2014 farm bill, and states which programs are outside the test: conservation, disaster assistance and federal crop insurance.

Source
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Date
18 May 2018 (reissued 5 June 2018)
Quoted from
Footnote 2, p. 1
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/691864.pdf
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding AGR-3.7
Primary record Crop insurance premium subsidies and indemnities have no payment limit and sit outside the actively engaged in farming test. For the programs that apply the test, GAO reported in 2004, 2013 and 2020 that the management standard is broad and that FSA’s compliance reviews were late or not monitored.