Livestock Subsidies in Colorado, 2020
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 214
Recipients of Livestock Subsidies from farms in Colorado totaled $3,464,000 in in 2020.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Livestock Subsidies 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Midwest Farms LLC * | Burlington, CO 80807 | $250,000 |
| 2 | Genesus Genetics Inc | Sioux Falls, SD 57106 | $167,673 |
| 3 | Wildcat Dairy LLC * | Fort Morgan, CO 80701 | $125,000 |
| 4 | Wolf Creek Dairy LLC | Severance, CO 80546 | $102,740 |
| 5 | Lowell Klinglesmith | Meeker, CO 81641 | $94,860 |
| 6 | Empire Dairy LLC * | Wiggins, CO 80654 | $93,633 |
| 7 | M & J Dairy LLC | Kersey, CO 80644 | $88,498 |
| 8 | Oldland Brothers Inc * | Rifle, CO 81650 | $85,791 |
| 9 | Monte Vista Dairy LLC * | Gill, CO 80624 | $83,357 |
| 10 | Faulkner Dairy II LLC Dba Galeton * | Greeley, CO 80633 | $66,665 |
| 11 | Front Range Farms LLC * | Demotte, IN 46310 | $57,647 |
| 12 | G L Bagwell & Sons * | Manassa, CO 81141 | $51,027 |
| 13 | Kraft Family Dairies LLC | Fort Morgan, CO 80701 | $48,294 |
| 14 | J Paul Brown | Ignacio, CO 81137 | $46,371 |
| 15 | Rio Vega Ranch LLC * | Alamosa, CO 81101 | $46,217 |
| 16 | Great Western Dairy LLC * | Ault, CO 80610 | $43,868 |
| 17 | Johnson Dairy LLC * | Eaton, CO 80615 | $43,401 |
| 18 | Ash Lane Dairy LLC * | Greeley, CO 80631 | $43,287 |
| 19 | Commodity Credit Corporation ** | Langdon, ND 58249 | $41,307 |
| 20 | Edward S Scherrer | Matheson, CO 80830 | $40,884 |
* 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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‡ Data for 2020 includes payments made by USDA through June 30, 2020 and does not include crop insurance premium subsidies.
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