Bailouts · Agriculture
Emergency commodity aid (ECAP) (2025)
Who: More than 560,000 farmers growing corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, and other row crops. What: Per-acre payments on 2024 crops to offset low prices and high costs, from the spending law Congress passed in December 2024.
$10.0B
committed or authorized
$9.38B
paid out
$0
recovered (repayments, dividends, fees)
$9.38B
net cost (grants (not repaid))
Outcome
Paid in 2025 at 99% of the calculated rate. The same law provided about $21B for farm disaster losses, paid separately (see the farm aid page).
Legal authority: American Relief Act, 2025 (P.L. 118-158), Section 2102.
Where it went: Paid by state (USDA dashboard)
49 states; the top five received 41% of the national total.
All other states (29)
| Kentucky | $130M |
| Tennessee | $116M |
| Louisiana | $106M |
| Washington | $82M |
| Alabama | $75M |
| California | $68M |
| Idaho | $66M |
| Pennsylvania | $64M |
| New York | $57M |
| South Carolina | $52M |
| Virginia | $47M |
| Maryland | $36M |
| Oregon | $26M |
| Florida | $19M |
| New Mexico | $19M |
| Arizona | $16M |
| Delaware | $12M |
| Wyoming | $9M |
| Utah | $8M |
| New Jersey | $7M |
| Vermont | $4M |
| Maine | $3M |
| West Virginia | $3M |
| Connecticut | $1M |
| Nevada | $1M |
| Massachusetts | $1M |
| New Hampshire | $0M |
| Alaska | $0M |
| Rhode Island | $0M |
Oversight
Who was supposed to watch this money, and what happened to them. Oversight of every bailout →
- Jan 2025▼ Oversight cutTrump fires 17 inspectors general without the notice the law requires, including those overseeing PPP and EIDL (SBA), farm aid (USDA), hospital relief (HHS), pandemic transit and airport aid (DOT), pandemic unemployment (Labor), and school relief (Education). USDA's was escorted out of her office. A judge later ruled the firings unlawful but did not reinstate anyone. Source