Farm Subsidy information
Starke County, Indiana
Total USDA Subsidies in Starke County, Indiana, 1995-2020‡
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 2,541
Recipients of Total USDA Subsidies from farms in Starke County, Indiana totaled $154,829,000 in from 1995-2020‡.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total USDA Subsidies 1995-2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lawrence Bros * | Knox, IN 46534 | $1,788,299 |
| 2 | Larry E Wappel Sr | San Pierre, IN 46374 | $1,492,959 |
| 3 | Daniel E Gumz | North Judson, IN 46366 | $1,418,294 |
| 4 | Sand Dollar Farm Inc * | Hamlet, IN 46532 | $1,399,272 |
| 5 | Roger Ferch | Hamlet, IN 46532 | $1,384,041 |
| 6 | Richard Gumz Farms LLC * | North Judson, IN 46366 | $1,316,809 |
| 7 | John - John Lukac Re K Lukac | North Judson, IN 46366 | $1,183,793 |
| 8 | L And D Farms And Trucking Inc * | Knox, IN 46534 | $1,157,197 |
| 9 | Schacht Farms Inc * | North Judson, IN 46366 | $1,128,158 |
| 10 | Burbank Farms Inc * | North Judson, IN 46366 | $1,104,844 |
| 11 | The Liskey Family Revocable Trust | North Judson, IN 46366 | $1,102,907 |
| 12 | Randal Lukac | San Pierre, IN 46374 | $1,101,329 |
| 13 | Richard Chesak | North Judson, IN 46366 | $1,031,575 |
| 14 | Michael B Risner | Knox, IN 46534 | $1,029,547 |
| 15 | Michael Hayes | Hamlet, IN 46532 | $1,000,764 |
| 16 | Jerome Gumz | North Judson, IN 46366 | $959,157 |
| 17 | Debra Wappel | San Pierre, IN 46374 | $947,443 |
| 18 | Robert Chesak | North Judson, IN 46366 | $944,208 |
| 19 | Kenneth L Porter | Grovertown, IN 46531 | $943,572 |
| 20 | D & K Farms * | Rochester, IN 46975 | $931,817 |
* 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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