Farm Subsidy information
Watonwan County, Minnesota
Total Subsidies in Watonwan County, Minnesota, 1995-2021
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 2,046
Recipients of Total Subsidies from farms in Watonwan County, Minnesota totaled $367,267,000 in from 1995-2021.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total Subsidies 1995-2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bottem Farms Inc | Saint James, MN 56081 | $2,635,530 |
| 2 | Mike Brandts | Saint James, MN 56081 | $2,619,411 |
| 3 | Wolle Farms | Saint James, MN 56081 | $2,452,177 |
| 4 | James Hopman | Madelia, MN 56062 | $2,410,532 |
| 5 | David Pettersen | Madelia, MN 56062 | $2,031,215 |
| 6 | Stephen Dale Romsdahl | Saint James, MN 56081 | $1,993,617 |
| 7 | Gregory Dean Romsdahl | Butterfield, MN 56120 | $1,928,990 |
| 8 | Terry Pettersen | Madelia, MN 56062 | $1,908,088 |
| 9 | Lowell Pietsch | Madelia, MN 56062 | $1,879,525 |
| 10 | Dennis Coleman | Saint James, MN 56081 | $1,790,278 |
| 11 | Geistfeld Farm Inc | Lewisville, MN 56060 | $1,776,898 |
| 12 | Tilney Farms | Lewisville, MN 56060 | $1,726,644 |
| 13 | James Freeman Hoppe | Saint James, MN 56081 | $1,718,618 |
| 14 | Brad M Asendorf | Saint James, MN 56081 | $1,692,837 |
| 15 | Robert Reihs | Madelia, MN 56062 | $1,690,703 |
| 16 | Geistfeld Bros Farms | Saint James, MN 56081 | $1,663,052 |
| 17 | Keith James Greier | Lewisville, MN 56060 | $1,657,632 |
| 18 | Jeffrey Maloney | Lewisville, MN 56060 | $1,639,861 |
| 19 | Lori A Feder-pietsch | Madelia, MN 56062 | $1,586,248 |
| 20 | Blackstad Farm Corp | Saint James, MN 56081 | $1,580,721 |
* 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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