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Award obligations from USAspending, with detail archived for FFY 2024 · 32 sub-agencies.
USDA covers nutrition assistance, farm programs, conservation, and rural development. Nutrition programs drive a large share of its financial footprint. Award figures on The Ledger come from archived USAspending awarding-agency rollups (obligations). That is not the same as every dollar the agency outlays.
Obligations · FFY 2024
$173.3B
Awarding agency USDA
Transactions
1,671,842
Award transactions in FFY 2024
Share of awards
3.50%
Of archived awarding-agency obligations in FFY 2024
MTS outlays · FFY 2025
$227.4B
Matched Monthly Treasury Statement line
| Fiscal year | Obligations |
|---|---|
| FFY 2024 | $173.3B |
| FFY 2023 | $206.8B |
| FFY 2022 | $234.8B |
| FFY 2021 | $224.8B |
| FFY 2018 | $122.5B |
| FFY 2017 | $123.6B |
| FFY 2016 | $135.0B |
| Category | Amount |
|---|---|
| Direct payments | $96.1B |
| Grants | $57.0B |
| Contracts | $11.6B |
| Other | $7.7B |
| Loans | $772.0M |
| IDVs | $18.8M |
| Sub-agency | Code | Obligations | Transactions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food and Nutrition Service | FNS | $132.2B | 11,075 |
| Forest Service | FS | $8.0B | 63,575 |
| Natural Resources Conservation Service | NRCS | $6.8B | 197,770 |
| Farm Service Agency | FSA | $6.5B | 1,261,893 |
| Agricultural Marketing Service | AMS | $5.0B | 10,665 |
| Rural Utilities Service | RUS | $3.9B | 1,475 |
| Rural Housing Service | RHS | $2.2B | 75,310 |
| National Institute of Food and Agriculture | NIFA | $2.0B | 6,420 |
| Office of the Chief Financial Officer | OCFO | $1.6B | 3,032 |
| Foreign Agricultural Service | FAS | $1.2B | 2,514 |
| Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service | APHIS | $1.1B | 8,701 |
| Rural Business Cooperative Service | RBS | $1.0B | 6,913 |
| Fiscal year | Net outlays |
|---|---|
| FFY 2025 | $227.4B |
| FFY 2024 | $203.4B |
| FFY 2023 | $228.9B |
| FFY 2022 | $245.2B |
| FFY 2021 | $235.2B |
| FFY 2018 | $136.7B |
| FFY 2017 | $127.6B |
| FFY 2016 | $138.2B |