Production Flexibility Program in Minnehaha County, South Dakota, 1995-2023
Subsidy Recipients 21 to 40 of 1,925
Recipients of Production Flexibility Program from farms in Minnehaha County, South Dakota totaled $31,196,000 in from 1995-2023.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Production Flexibility Program 1995-2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Randy R Pierret | Sherman, SD 57030 | $134,059 |
| 22 | Vernon R Mcareavey | Humboldt, SD 57035 | $132,475 |
| 23 | Michael John Wolles | Dell Rapids, SD 57022 | $131,306 |
| 24 | Jeffrey Arthur Benson | Garretson, SD 57030 | $130,323 |
| 25 | Todd Dawley | Valley Springs, SD 57068 | $124,985 |
| 26 | Paul H Koch | Sherman, SD 57030 | $124,657 |
| 27 | William J Klein | Dell Rapids, SD 57022 | $120,694 |
| 28 | Wintersteen Farms | Sioux Falls, SD 57107 | $119,940 |
| 29 | Derry Benson | Sioux Falls, SD 57107 | $115,988 |
| 30 | Randall Raymond Albers | Hartford, SD 57033 | $115,544 |
| 31 | Evergreen Stock Farm Inc | Valley Springs, SD 57068 | $115,451 |
| 32 | Ronald William Steineke | Hartford, SD 57033 | $114,635 |
| 33 | Lueth Bros | Humboldt, SD 57035 | $113,938 |
| 34 | Francis Michael Grace | Hartford, SD 57033 | $109,658 |
| 35 | Wayne Burkhart | Dell Rapids, SD 57022 | $109,468 |
| 36 | Boadwine Farms Inc | Sioux Falls, SD 57106 | $107,017 |
| 37 | Marvin Manifold | Sioux Falls, SD 57110 | $105,790 |
| 38 | Dale V Benson | Sioux Falls, SD 57107 | $105,149 |
| 39 | Paul Edward Grinde | Colton, SD 57018 | $102,816 |
| 40 | Irvin W Schreurs | Baltic, SD 57003 | $102,738 |
* 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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