Market Facilitation Program (MFP) in Cheyenne County, Colorado, 2020
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 314
Recipients of Market Facilitation Program (MFP) from farms in Cheyenne County, Colorado totaled $1,475,000 in in 2020.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Market Facilitation Program (MFP) 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Loren Mitchek Farms LLC | Kit Carson, CO 80825 | $36,207 |
| 2 | Ervin Mitchek | Kit Carson, CO 80825 | $34,836 |
| 3 | Matthew James Campbell | Cheyenne Wells, CO 80810 | $33,283 |
| 4 | Scott Allen Scheimer | Cheyenne Wells, CO 80810 | $29,804 |
| 5 | Stephanie Kaplan Scheimer | Cheyenne Wells, CO 80810 | $29,797 |
| 6 | Farm Credit Of Southern Colorado ** | Lamar, CO 81052 | $26,627 |
| 7 | Smelker Farms | Kit Carson, CO 80825 | $26,382 |
| 8 | Torro Farms LLC | Burlington, CO 80807 | $26,299 |
| 9 | Maria Mitchek | Kit Carson, CO 80825 | $25,389 |
| 10 | Gabrial L Mitchek | Arapahoe, CO 80802 | $24,758 |
| 11 | Simon Farms | Stratton, CO 80836 | $23,001 |
| 12 | Ashley Mitchek | Arapahoe, CO 80802 | $22,997 |
| 13 | Troy Ray Smith | Stratton, CO 80836 | $20,356 |
| 14 | Scott Hevner | Cheyenne Wells, CO 80810 | $19,413 |
| 15 | Richard Leon Ball | Cheyenne Wells, CO 80810 | $19,354 |
| 16 | Kristy Rae Ball | Cheyenne Wells, CO 80810 | $19,353 |
| 17 | M Mark Harms | Cheyenne Wells, CO 80810 | $17,805 |
| 18 | Kyle G Gerweck | Cheyenne Wells, CO 80810 | $17,214 |
| 19 | Bean Bean Farms | Cheyenne Wells, CO 80810 | $15,547 |
| 20 | Sc Joint Venture Gen Ptr | Stratton, CO 80836 | $15,162 |
* 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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