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Exhibit 658

USDA Market Facilitation Program: Information on Payments for 2019 (GAO-20-700R)

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

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Finding AGR-3.9
Primary record In 2019 the Market Facilitation Program paid specialty crops about 2 percent and nonspecialty crops about 94 percent of $14.4 billion. USDA’s 2025 Farmer Bridge Assistance program is $11 billion with $1 billion more available, and its program for specialty crops that the first did not cover is $1.625 billion.
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.