Assistance program
Direct and Counter-cyclical Payments Program
$508,076 committed in FY2018–FY2020
- Agency
- Farm Service Agency, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Direct Payments for Specified Use
- CFDA number
- 10.055
- What it does
- To provide income support to eligible producers of covered commodities.
- Who benefits
- DCP provides payments to eligible producers on farms enrolled for the 2008 through 2013 crop years.
- Who applies
- To be eligible for payments under DCP, owners, operators, landlords, tenants, or sharecroppers must (1) share in the risk of producing a crop on base acres on a farm enrolled in DCP, and be entitled to share in the crop available for marketing from the base acres, or would have shared had a crop been produced; (2) annually report the use of the farm's cropland acreage; (3) comply with conservation and wetland protection requirements on all of their land; (4) comply with planting flexibility requirements; (5) use the base acres for agricultural or related activities; and (5) protect all base acres from erosion, including providing sufficient cover as determined necessary by the county FSA committee, and control weeds.
- Authorized by
- The American Taxpayer Relief Act Of 2012
- Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008
Committed by fiscal year
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How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments