Assistance program
Agricultural and Rural Economic Research, Cooperative Agreements and Collaborations
$38.9 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Economic Research Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements;Project Grants;Dissemination of Technical Information
- CFDA number
- 10.250
- What it does
- To provide economic and other social science information and analysis for public and private decisions on agriculture, food, natural resources, and rural America. ERS produces information for use by the general public and to help the executive and legislative branches develop, administer, and evaluate agricultural and rural policies and programs. Specific recent areas of research focus are measures of the impact on Food Assistance Programs on food security and dietary nutritional values, measures on the impact of incentive programs on the use of cover crops and rotational grazing with an emphasis on sustainability and the reduction of greenhouse gases. ERS is also conducting research specifically focused on equity in farm programs, including research on farm income and the profitability of beginning farmers and ranchers.
- Who benefits
- Any individual or organization in the U.S. and U.S. Territories is eligible to receive the popular or technical research publications that convey the research results, although there may be a fee.
- Who applies
- Any individual or organization in the U.S. and U.S. Territories is eligible to receive the popular or technical research publications that convey the research results, although there may be a fee.
- Authorized by
- 7 U.S.C. § 3318(b)
- 7 U.S.C. § 3318(c)
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.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Grants
$19.1M
49%
Other
$19.8M
51%
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