The U.S. Department of Agriculture reduced its backlog from 2546 requests at the end of FY 2020 to 2081 requests at the end of in FY 2021, an 18.2 percent decrease, according to quarterly FOIA reports posted on USDA’s website. The Department received 21,000 requests in FY 2021, down 7.9 percent from the 22,810 requests received in FY 2020; the Department processed 21,884 requests in FY 2021 as opposed to 23,103 requests in FY 2020, a decrease of 5.3 percent.