Subtotal, Farming Subsidies in Porter County, Indiana, 2019‡
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 347
Recipients of Subtotal, Farming Subsidies from farms in Porter County, Indiana totaled $7,371,000 in in 2019‡.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Subtotal, Farming Subsidies 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | R Wittmer Farms Inc * | Valparaiso, IN 46383 | $231,924 |
| 2 | Maxwell Grain And Farm LLC | Valparaiso, IN 46385 | $197,684 |
| 3 | Clr Farm Enterprises | Valparaiso, IN 46385 | $175,368 |
| 4 | Kats Family Farms LLC | Kouts, IN 46347 | $164,322 |
| 5 | Farm & Feeders Inc * | Demotte, IN 46310 | $157,577 |
| 6 | Clarence Case Weinkauff | Valparaiso, IN 46383 | $141,589 |
| 7 | Joseph C Buergler | Hobart, IN 46342 | $139,565 |
| 8 | Teresa Buergler | Hobart, IN 46342 | $139,565 |
| 9 | Eagle Rock Farm Gp | Hebron, IN 46341 | $128,062 |
| 10 | Roger D Martin | Kouts, IN 46347 | $118,059 |
| 11 | Morrows Dairy Inc * | Hebron, IN 46341 | $114,161 |
| 12 | Lee I Peterson Family Farms Inc * | Valparaiso, IN 46385 | $111,609 |
| 13 | Jeff Kuss | Valparaiso, IN 46383 | $111,228 |
| 14 | Robert B Rhoda | Chesterton, IN 46304 | $92,995 |
| 15 | Ron Birky | Valparaiso, IN 46383 | $86,285 |
| 16 | Johnson Bros * | Valparaiso, IN 46383 | $86,114 |
| 17 | Agrifund LLC ** | Fort Worth, TX 76102 | $85,640 |
| 18 | Gary Birky | Kouts, IN 46347 | $82,648 |
| 19 | Sutter Farm LLC | Kouts, IN 46347 | $74,778 |
| 20 | Marvin Werner | Wanatah, IN 46390 | $74,691 |
* 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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