Total Disaster Programs in Washington County, Wisconsin, 1995-2021
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 145
Recipients of Total Disaster Programs from farms in Washington County, Wisconsin totaled $2,407,000 in from 1995-2021.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total Disaster Programs 1995-2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenneth Ramthun | West Bend, WI 53090 | $139,811 |
| 2 | Kratz Farms LLC | Slinger, WI 53086 | $132,519 |
| 3 | Gordon Carl Michaels | West Bend, WI 53090 | $116,058 |
| 4 | Kathy Jean Michaels | West Bend, WI 53090 | $113,628 |
| 5 | Roman C Faber Jr | West Bend, WI 53095 | $85,008 |
| 6 | Ned Lepien | Hartford, WI 53027 | $70,439 |
| 7 | Ryan Joseph Albinger | Random Lake, WI 53075 | $66,387 |
| 8 | August Fechter Jr | West Bend, WI 53095 | $65,345 |
| 9 | Basse's Taste Of Country LLC | Colgate, WI 53017 | $54,321 |
| 10 | L-j Farms Inc | West Bend, WI 53095 | $52,602 |
| 11 | Christopher Elbe | West Bend, WI 53090 | $52,391 |
| 12 | Thull Farms LLC | Kewaskum, WI 53040 | $47,453 |
| 13 | Stanley Miller | Cedarburg, WI 53012 | $43,621 |
| 14 | Ihlenfeld Farms LLC | West Bend, WI 53090 | $43,537 |
| 15 | Ramthun's Hickory View Farm LLC | West Bend, WI 53090 | $41,384 |
| 16 | Marvin W Kissinger | Jackson, WI 53037 | $40,820 |
| 17 | Lee Kissinger | Jackson, WI 53037 | $40,263 |
| 18 | Pioneer Turf Nursery Inc | Jackson, WI 53037 | $38,101 |
| 19 | Sterman Farms Ltd | Hartford, WI 53027 | $37,535 |
| 20 | Schulteis Enterprises Inc | Richfield, WI 53076 | $35,877 |
* 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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