Conservation Reserve Program in Pondera County, Montana, 2021
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 129
Recipients of Conservation Reserve Program from farms in Pondera County, Montana totaled $902,000 in in 2021.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Conservation Reserve Program 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stockman Bank ** | Conrad, MT 59425 | $50,000 |
| 2 | Gale R Gustafson | Conrad, MT 59425 | $36,171 |
| 3 | Antonie Verstraete | Conrad, MT 59425 | $31,998 |
| 4 | B W Farms Inc | Sun City West, AZ 85375 | $31,306 |
| 5 | Fladstol Farms Inc | Conrad, MT 59425 | $31,072 |
| 6 | Tw Farms Inc | Louisville, CO 80027 | $30,159 |
| 7 | Gustav Gunderson Farms Inc | Choteau, MT 59422 | $29,279 |
| 8 | Byron H Bokma | Conrad, MT 59425 | $27,857 |
| 9 | Warwick Farms Inc | Conrad, MT 59425 | $26,885 |
| 10 | Dean Gemar | Conrad, MT 59425 | $22,468 |
| 11 | Powers Trust | Surprise, AZ 85374 | $21,302 |
| 12 | Merrill A Kovatch | Bigfork, MT 59911 | $21,012 |
| 13 | Marvin Sabbe | Camp Verde, AZ 86322 | $20,949 |
| 14 | Independence Bank ** | Havre, MT 59501 | $17,970 |
| 15 | Evelyn Bruce | Ledger, MT 59456 | $17,788 |
| 16 | Dale Seifert | Conrad, MT 59425 | $17,293 |
| 17 | Steve Preputin & Sons Inc | Brady, MT 59416 | $16,278 |
| 18 | Kenn Hohman | Conrad, MT 59425 | $15,918 |
| 19 | Verstraete Farm Inc | Conrad, MT 59425 | $15,484 |
| 20 | Albert Blockeel Jr | Valier, MT 59486 | $14,623 |
* 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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