The FY2027 President's Budget requests $161.5M for Salaries and Expenses, within Agriculture (USDA)'s Salaries and Expenses account. That is down 3.6% on the FY2026 figure of $167.6M, which is the enacted appropriation.
FY2026–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | enacted | $167.6M |
| FY2027 | request | $161.5M |
Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
Agriculture (USDA) discretionary budget authority
From the OMB Public Budget Database — clean, summable, and the figure to cite for an agency total. It is the whole of Agriculture (USDA)'s discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
The appropriations language follows (new language underscored; deleted matter enclosed in Salaries and Expenses (Including Transfers of Funds) For necessary expenses of the Farm Production and Conservation Business Center, [$167,633,000, of which $1,000,000 shall be for the implementation of section 773 of Public Law 117- transferred and merged with this account: Provided further, That this amount may be increased based on demonstrable need of the agency, and such additional transfers shall be made only with the approval of the Office of Management and Budget. Table FBC-6. Project Statement on Basis of Appropriations (thousands of dollars, FTEs) 3
Extracted from Farm Production and Conservation Business Center, p. 8. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
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