Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) in the United States, 2019
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 8,170
Recipients of Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) from farms in the United States totaled $63,139,000 in in 2019.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Farm Services Agency ** | Washington, DC 20250 | $1,120,050 |
| 2 | Dan Bird | Cut Bank, MT 59427 | $339,888 |
| 3 | Twin County Feeders LLC | Minatare, NE 69356 | $308,110 |
| 4 | J & K Dairy LLC | Sunnyside, WA 98944 | $289,647 |
| 5 | Cowifornia Dreamin' Dairy | Chowchilla, CA 93610 | $243,171 |
| 6 | Frauhiger Livestock LLC | Montpelier, IN 47359 | $229,084 |
| 7 | Double Bar Land LLC | Spray, OR 97874 | $210,119 |
| 8 | Louis S Gardner | Claremore, OK 74019 | $207,014 |
| 9 | Arledge Livestock Company LLC | Robert Lee, TX 76945 | $183,432 |
| 10 | Bobcat Farms LLC | Clinton, NC 28329 | $169,797 |
| 11 | First Interstate Bank ** | Fairfield, WA 99012 | $168,565 |
| 12 | Occ-o'connor Crops & Cattle LLC | Ekalaka, MT 59324 | $167,142 |
| 13 | Midvale Cattle Co LLC | Sunnyside, WA 98944 | $157,607 |
| 14 | Gene - Gene M Kramer Rev Trust M | Wray, CO 80758 | $153,008 |
| 15 | Schultz Farms & Ranches Inc | Columbus, NE 68601 | $152,753 |
| 16 | Dallas Roy Christensen | Edison, NE 68936 | $143,524 |
| 17 | Union Cattle Co LLC | Lacrosse, WA 99143 | $143,067 |
| 18 | Lehr Inc | Columbus, NE 68601 | $138,420 |
| 19 | Pat L Heathershaw | Wall, SD 57790 | $138,214 |
| 20 | Robert J Harlan | Kaycee, WY 82639 | $129,075 |
* USDA data are not "transparent" for many payments made to recipients through most cooperatives. Recipients of payments made through most cooperatives, and the amounts, have not been made public. To see ownership information, click on the name, then click on the link that is titled Ownership Information.
** EWG has identified this recipient as a bank or lending institution that received the payment because the payment applicant had a loan requiring any subsidy payments go to the lender first. In 2019, the information provided to EWG by USDA began to include the entity that received the payment, rather than the person or entity that applied for it, which was previously provided. This move to shield subsidy recipients from disclosure enables USDA to further evade taxpayer accountability. Six percent of subsidy dollars went to banks, lending institutions, or the Farm Service Agency.”
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