Total Commodity Programs in Howard County, Iowa, 2020
Subsidy Recipients 21 to 40 of 689
Recipients of Total Commodity Programs from farms in Howard County, Iowa totaled $26,435,000 in in 2020.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total Commodity Programs 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | T & V Grover Farms Incorporated | Cresco, IA 52136 | $233,814 |
| 22 | Gregory Mark Mahr | Lime Springs, IA 52155 | $230,247 |
| 23 | Grover Farms Inc | Hudson, IA 50643 | $229,557 |
| 24 | Mark Allen Ries | Elma, IA 50628 | $210,466 |
| 25 | Watt Five LLC | Cresco, IA 52136 | $203,749 |
| 26 | Shea Brothers Partnership | Lime Springs, IA 52155 | $197,969 |
| 27 | Amkk LLC | Calmar, IA 52132 | $192,854 |
| 28 | William Eugene Mahr | Lime Springs, IA 52155 | $185,621 |
| 29 | Jason Dennis Rice | Lime Springs, IA 52155 | $173,874 |
| 30 | Saratoga Partnership | Lime Springs, IA 52155 | $167,763 |
| 31 | Patrick Donald Ollendieck | Lime Springs, IA 52155 | $152,723 |
| 32 | Eric Joseph Hawbaker | Riceville, IA 50466 | $147,126 |
| 33 | Carlton J Kjos | Decorah, IA 52101 | $146,165 |
| 34 | Michael Dale Lewis | Chester, IA 52134 | $144,776 |
| 35 | Sovereigns Inc | Cresco, IA 52136 | $141,672 |
| 36 | Corwin Carl Christensen | Elma, IA 50628 | $140,607 |
| 37 | Troy Allen Smith | Elma, IA 50628 | $134,273 |
| 38 | Pine Creek Farm Ltd | Lime Springs, IA 52155 | $133,198 |
| 39 | Damon Gerald Gragert | Lime Springs, IA 52155 | $129,178 |
| 40 | Alan Bernard Schatz | Cresco, IA 52136 | $125,597 |
* 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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