Emergency Livestock Assistance Program (ELAP) in El Paso County, Colorado, 1995-2023
Subsidy Recipients 21 to 40 of 71
Recipients of Emergency Livestock Assistance Program (ELAP) from farms in El Paso County, Colorado totaled $912,000 in from 1995-2023.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Emergency Livestock Assistance Program (ELAP) 1995-2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Travis J. Casey | Calhan, CO 80808 | $11,715 |
| 22 | Paul Sopko III | Yoder, CO 80864 | $11,342 |
| 23 | Clyde Chess | Rush, CO 80833 | $10,745 |
| 24 | Roger W Meinzer | Yoder, CO 80864 | $9,882 |
| 25 | , | $9,383 | |
| 26 | Todd R Hofmann | Calhan, CO 80808 | $9,173 |
| 27 | Michael Fields | Peyton, CO 80831 | $9,096 |
| 28 | Stephen Zettlemoyer | Colorado Springs, CO 80930 | $8,727 |
| 29 | Yoder Brothers LLC | Yoder, CO 80864 | $8,298 |
| 30 | Rodger Woodard | Calhan, CO 80808 | $7,892 |
| 31 | Buddy R Johnson | Simla, CO 80835 | $7,679 |
| 32 | Jose L Munoz | Avondale, CO 81022 | $7,182 |
| 33 | Judy M Whittemore | Rush, CO 80833 | $5,900 |
| 34 | John N Welty | Elbert, CO 80106 | $5,393 |
| 35 | Paul Daniel Malchow | Calhan, CO 80808 | $4,826 |
| 36 | Joseph Aaron Sedlak | Ramah, CO 80832 | $4,573 |
| 37 | Veldon L Grasmick | Yoder, CO 80864 | $4,003 |
| 38 | Ernest Scott Mikita | Calhan, CO 80808 | $3,932 |
| 39 | Ronald W Edwards | Colorado Springs, CO 80928 | $3,623 |
| 40 | James M Burke | Rush, CO 80833 | $3,472 |
* 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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