Total Commodity Programs in Guthrie County, Iowa, 1995-2021
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 2,945
Recipients of Total Commodity Programs from farms in Guthrie County, Iowa totaled $189,596,000 in from 1995-2021.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total Commodity Programs 1995-2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carstens & Sons Farm | Bagley, IA 50026 | $3,772,965 |
| 2 | Van Meter Brothers | Guthrie Center, IA 50115 | $2,007,377 |
| 3 | Kading Farms Inc | Menlo, IA 50164 | $1,626,274 |
| 4 | Mleynek Farms Inc | Yale, IA 50277 | $1,481,206 |
| 5 | Charles F Van Meter | Guthrie Center, IA 50115 | $1,439,018 |
| 6 | Alfred Meixner Jr | Panora, IA 50216 | $1,347,302 |
| 7 | Marvin Neal Smith | Yale, IA 50277 | $1,310,430 |
| 8 | Irlbeck Family Farms LLC | Coon Rapids, IA 50058 | $1,224,681 |
| 9 | Lance Allen Hansen | Guthrie Center, IA 50115 | $1,192,389 |
| 10 | Paul Anthony Clark | Guthrie Center, IA 50115 | $1,161,363 |
| 11 | Mark Alan Blomquist | Guthrie Center, IA 50115 | $1,077,232 |
| 12 | Carstens Livestock Inc | Bagley, IA 50026 | $1,068,341 |
| 13 | Bradley Allen Chalfant | Guthrie Center, IA 50115 | $1,067,910 |
| 14 | Rose Avenue Farms Inc | Bagley, IA 50026 | $1,055,387 |
| 15 | Dennis Charles Schreck | Guthrie Center, IA 50115 | $1,032,156 |
| 16 | Bret James Hodges | Coon Rapids, IA 50058 | $1,031,403 |
| 17 | Kastner Agri Farms Ltd | Yale, IA 50277 | $1,023,094 |
| 18 | Michael Merlen Sheeder | Guthrie Center, IA 50115 | $1,009,535 |
| 19 | Mark Allen Vogel | Panora, IA 50216 | $956,098 |
| 20 | James Charles Tuel | Bayard, IA 50029 | $955,875 |
* 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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