Dairy Program Subsidies in Iowa, 2019‡
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 1,190
Recipients of Dairy Program Subsidies from farms in Iowa totaled $11,254,000 in in 2019‡.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Dairy Program Subsidies 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Commodity Credit Corporation ** | Langdon, ND 58249 | $1,518,726 |
| 2 | Frieden Farms LLC * | Elgin, IA 52141 | $58,124 |
| 3 | Dairy Venture LLC * | Central City, IA 52214 | $46,544 |
| 4 | Van Ess Dairy LLC * | Sanborn, IA 51248 | $45,183 |
| 5 | Strief Farms Inc * | Farley, IA 52046 | $43,128 |
| 6 | Douglas J Hoefler | New Vienna, IA 52065 | $41,809 |
| 7 | Todd Van Middendorp | Hull, IA 51239 | $41,760 |
| 8 | Adaway Dairy LLC * | Waucoma, IA 52171 | $40,981 |
| 9 | Brian Michael Thole | Ashton, IA 51232 | $38,620 |
| 10 | Northeast Iowa Community-based Da * | Calmar, IA 52132 | $37,678 |
| 11 | Walter W Wessel | Greeley, IA 52050 | $36,209 |
| 12 | Adams Dairy LLC * | Garnavillo, IA 52049 | $35,832 |
| 13 | Ellis Edward Sprecher | Scarville, IA 50473 | $33,119 |
| 14 | Whitford Dairy LLC * | Volga, IA 52077 | $30,987 |
| 15 | Dutchland Dairy Co * | Rolfe, IA 50581 | $30,108 |
| 16 | Bear Creek Dairy Lp * | Brooklyn, IA 52211 | $26,323 |
| 17 | Dry Creek Farms Inc * | Rock Valley, IA 51247 | $26,015 |
| 18 | Blough Dairy Inc * | Waterloo, IA 50701 | $26,011 |
| 19 | John D Westra Dba Cartmill Dairy * | Primghar, IA 51245 | $26,008 |
| 20 | Holdgrafer Dairy Inc * | Bellevue, IA 52031 | $26,007 |
* 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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