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40 Congressional Research Service reports and publications

Agriculture and Related Agencies: FY2026 Appropriations
2025-08-06 · Reports · R48564 · HTML available · PDF available
Farm and Food Support Under USDA’s Section 32 Account
2025-08-05 · Resources · IF12193 · HTML available · PDF available
Farm Bill Primer: Programs Without a Budget Baseline
2025-06-27 · Resources · IF12115 · HTML available · PDF available
Budget Reconciliation: Farm Bill Programs Without a Budget Baseline and Trade Promotion, Research, Horticulture, and Animal Health Programs with a Budget Baseline
2025-06-26 · Posts · IN12573 · HTML available · PDF available
Agriculture and Related Agencies: FY2025 Appropriations
2025-05-19 · Reports · R48431 · HTML available · PDF available
Farm Credit Administration and Its Board Members
2025-04-29 · Resources · IF10767 · HTML available · PDF available
Agriculture Appropriations: Earmarks Disclosed from FY2022 to FY2024
2025-03-25 · Reports · R48471 · HTML available · PDF available
Farm Bill Primer: Budget Dynamics
2024-12-27 · Resources · IF12233 · HTML available · PDF available
Farm Bill Primer: Background and Status
2024-12-27 · Resources · IF12047 · HTML available · PDF available
Farm Bills: Major Legislative Actions, 19652024
2024-12-26 · Reports · R45210 · HTML available · PDF available
Expiration of the 2018 Farm Bill and Extension for 2025
2024-12-26 · Reports · R47659 · HTML available · PDF available
The 2024 Farm Bill: H.R. 8467 Compared with Current Law
2024-12-16 · Reports · R48167 · HTML available · PDF available
Beginning Farmers or Ranchers (BFRs): Challenges and Opportunities
2024-11-18 · Reports · R48269 · HTML available · PDF available
Section 1071: Small Business Lending Data Collection and Reporting
2024-06-06 · Reports · R47788 · HTML available · PDF available
The 2018 Farm Bill (P.L. 115-334): Summary and Side-by-Side Comparison
2024-05-07 · Reports · R45525 · HTML available · PDF available
What Is the Farm Bill?
2024-04-09 · Reports · RS22131 · HTML available · PDF available
Programs for Beginning, Limited Resource, Veteran, Socially Disadvantaged, and Tribal and Indigenous Farmers and Ranchers and for Small Farms and Ranches
2024-04-01 · Reports · R47933 · HTML available · PDF available
Agriculture and Related Agencies: FY2024 Appropriations
2024-03-13 · Posts · IN12158 · HTML available · PDF available
Farmer Mac and Its Board Members
2022-09-29 · Resources · IF11595 · HTML available · PDF available
Agricultural Credit: Institutions and Issues
2022-07-27 · Reports · R46768 · HTML available · PDF available
Preparing for the Next Farm Bill
2022-03-31 · Reports · R47057 · HTML available · PDF available
Build Back Better Act: Agriculture and Forestry Provisions
2021-12-07 · Resources · IF11988 · HTML available · PDF available
An Overview of Rural Credit Markets
2021-09-21 · Reports · R46914 · HTML available
Local and Urban Food Systems: Selected Farm Bill and Other Federal Programs
2020-09-23 · Reports · R46538 · HTML available · PDF available
COVID-19, U.S. Agriculture, and USDA’s Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP)
2020-05-08 · Reports · R46347 · HTML available · PDF available
Federal Assistance to Troubled Industries: Selected Examples
2020-03-19 · Reports · R46277 · HTML available · PDF available
Staffing Trends in the USDA Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) Mission Area
2020-03-11 · Resources · IF11452 · HTML available · PDF available
Farm Policy: USDA’s 2018 Trade Aid Package
2019-12-05 · Reports · R45310 · HTML available · PDF available
FY2019 Supplemental Appropriations for Agriculture
2019-06-07 · Resources · IF11245 · HTML available · PDF available
2018 Farm Bill Primer: Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018
2019-03-08 · Resources · IF11126 · HTML available · PDF available
Budget Issues That Shaped the 2018 Farm Bill
2019-02-28 · Reports · R45425 · HTML available · PDF available
Agriculture Funding in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018
2018-02-16 · Resources · IF10829 · HTML available
Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2018
2018-01-25 · Reports · R44888 · HTML available
Farm Credit System
2016-05-17 · Reports · RS21278 · HTML available
Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2016
2016-02-17 · Reports · R43944 · HTML available
Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2015
2015-02-02 · Reports · R43580 · HTML available
Budget Issues That Shaped the 2014 Farm Bill
2014-04-10 · Reports · R42484 · HTML available
The 2014 Farm Bill (P.L. 113-79): Summary and Side-by-Side
2014-02-12 · Reports · R43076 · HTML available
OMB Controls on Agency Mandatory Spending Programs: “Administrative PAYGO” and Related Issues for Congress
2010-08-19 · Reports · R41375 · HTML available
Earmarks Disclosed by Congress: FY2008FY2010 Regular Appropriations Bills
2010-04-16 · Reports · R40976 · HTML available