Total Conservation Programs in Hill County, Montana, 1995-2023
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 1,397
Recipients of Total Conservation Programs from farms in Hill County, Montana totaled $214,220,000 in from 1995-2023.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total Conservation Programs 1995-2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dnrc Trust Land Management - Exem | Helena, MT 59620 | $3,308,657 |
| 2 | Aageson Grain & Cattle | Gildford, MT 59525 | $2,321,775 |
| 3 | Montana Board Of Investments - Se | Saint Paul, MN 55170 | $2,104,853 |
| 4 | Vande Sandt Brothers | Gildford, MT 59525 | $2,045,734 |
| 5 | Dry Fork Farms Tribal Corporation | Box Elder, MT 59521 | $1,573,647 |
| 6 | Richard Velk | Havre, MT 59501 | $1,383,786 |
| 7 | Pester Brothers | Rudyard, MT 59540 | $1,254,428 |
| 8 | Kenneth Heydon Farms | Post Falls, ID 83854 | $1,187,891 |
| 9 | Sharptail Ranch | Havre, MT 59501 | $1,161,125 |
| 10 | S W & Crew | Havre, MT 59501 | $1,154,740 |
| 11 | Welsh Land & Cattle Co | Havre, MT 59501 | $1,149,072 |
| 12 | John & Carolyn Mclain Trust | Carson City, NV 89703 | $1,072,994 |
| 13 | Brian C. Wilson Inc. | Havre, MT 59501 | $1,065,588 |
| 14 | The Brown Co | Hingham, MT 59528 | $1,047,091 |
| 15 | Fairchild Farms Partnership | Gildford, MT 59525 | $1,041,789 |
| 16 | James Stewart | Havre, MT 59501 | $1,037,518 |
| 17 | Kline Farms | Kremlin, MT 59532 | $1,031,691 |
| 18 | Richard K Jackson | Helena, MT 59601 | $1,022,258 |
| 19 | Kenneth L Wilson Inc | Havre, MT 59501 | $1,014,964 |
| 20 | Hadford Farm Partnership | Rudyard, MT 59540 | $996,647 |
* 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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