Bailouts · Agriculture
Pandemic farm aid (CFAP) (2020–21)
Who: Crop, livestock, and dairy farmers nationwide. What: Two rounds of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program to cover pandemic price drops and supply-chain losses.
n/a
committed or authorized
$31.3B
paid out
$0
recovered (repayments, dividends, fees)
$31.3B
net cost (grants (not repaid))
Outcome
CFAP 1 paid $11.8B and CFAP 2 $19.5B (as of August 2023). Farms also had $14.5B of PPP loans forgiven in 2020–21, counted under the Paycheck Protection Program.
Legal authority: CARES Act; Commodity Credit Corporation; Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021.
Who got it: Paid by type of farm (GAO, Dec 2021)
Where it went: USDA pandemic aid by state, 2020–21 (ERS)
50 states; the top five received 34% of the national total.
All other states (30)
| Arkansas | $505M |
| New York | $498M |
| Florida | $468M |
| North Carolina | $453M |
| Georgia | $447M |
| Pennsylvania | $410M |
| Tennessee | $386M |
| Oregon | $355M |
| Mississippi | $345M |
| Louisiana | $291M |
| Virginia | $284M |
| Alabama | $264M |
| New Mexico | $232M |
| Wyoming | $187M |
| Utah | $162M |
| Arizona | $150M |
| South Carolina | $126M |
| Maryland | $104M |
| Vermont | $80M |
| New Jersey | $71M |
| Maine | $61M |
| Nevada | $57M |
| West Virginia | $56M |
| Hawaii | $42M |
| Massachusetts | $39M |
| Delaware | $37M |
| Connecticut | $30M |
| New Hampshire | $12M |
| Rhode Island | $5M |
| Alaska | $2M |