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Department of Agriculture

Federal agency · top-tier · the money flowing out to recipients.
$186.9B
obligated · FY2025
370
recipients
2,698,988
awards
26
sub-agencies

Obligations by year

≈ computed
$168.1B
FY20
$224.8B
FY21
$234.8B
FY22
$206.7B
FY23
$173.2B
FY24
$186.9B
FY25
▲ 11%
since FY20

Where this money goes

✓ from source
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUR
TOP RECIPIENTS
Department of Agriculture
$186.9B
FY2025 obligated
Department of
$14.4B
Health &
$7.7B
New York
$7.6B
Florida Department
$6.3B
Illinois Department
$4.6B
365 other recipients
$146.3B
band width = obligations · FY2025 · source: USASpending.gov

How it spends

≈ computed · awards by type
2,385,023direct payments
143,455other
84,933loans
42,558contracts
37,108grants
5,911contract vehicles

What it funds

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program$87.1B
National School Lunch Program$27.7B
Emergency Commodity Assistance Program$9.3B
Affordable Rural Cooperative$7.6B
WIC Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children $7.5B
State Administrative Matching Grants for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program$6.7B
Supplemental Disaster Relief Program$5.7B
Nutrition Assistance For Puerto Rico$2.9B

Sub-agencies

Food and Nutrition Service$136.2B
Farm Service Agency$19.7B
Rural Utilities Service$9.7B
Forest Service$7.2B
Natural Resources Conservation Service$3.3B
Rural Housing Service$2.1B
Agricultural Marketing Service$1.9B
National Institute of Food and Agriculture$1.4B
Office of the Chief Financial Officer$1.4B
Rural Business Cooperative Service$1.2B
Foreign Agricultural Service$847M
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service$797.8M
Agricultural Research Service$513.8M
Risk Management Agency$251.1M
Food Safety and Inspection Service$111.9M
Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services$70.2M
National Agricultural Statistics Service$42.1M
Department of Agriculture$34.6M
Office of the Chief Economist$12M
Office of the Inspector General$10.7M

Largest awards

CNP CN Block Prog
awarded 2023$3.2B
CNP CN Block Prog
awarded 2022$3.1B
CNP CN Block Prog
awarded 2021$2.9B
School Food Programs
awarded 2018$2.7B
CNP CN Block Prog
awarded 2024$2.7B
CNP CN Block Prog
awarded 2021$2.6B
School Food Programs
awarded 2018$2.6B
School Food Programs
awarded 2017$2.5B

The agency’s biggest individual awards by total value, largest first.

Congressional oversight

House Committee on AgricultureSenate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and ForestryHouse Committee on AppropriationsSenate Committee on Appropriations

≈ inferred the congressional committees whose jurisdiction covers this agency (curated). Oversight is context, not control, and not a claim of influence over any award.

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