Assistance program
Emergency Commodity Assistance Program
$9.4 Billion committed in FY2025–FY2026
- Agency
- Farm Service Agency, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 10.121
- What it does
- ECAP will issue a 1-time economic assistance payment to eligible producers of an eligible commodity for the 2024 crop year if the Secretary determines that the expected gross return per acre for the eligible commodity is less than the expected cost of production per acre for that eligible commodity.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Any producer who has eligible economic losses for the 2024 crop year and report their interest in the covered commodity.
- Authorized by
- Public Law 118-158, Sec. 2102
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
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
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments