Wildfires and Hurricane Indemnity Program Payments in Lyon County, Iowa, 1995-2023
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 355
Recipients of Wildfires and Hurricane Indemnity Program Payments from farms in Lyon County, Iowa totaled $5,522,000 in from 1995-2023.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Wildfires and Hurricane Indemnity Program Payments 1995-2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | George Dean Bruns | Rock Rapids, IA 51246 | $101,315 |
| 2 | Lowell Drenth | Little Rock, IA 51243 | $93,207 |
| 3 | G & L Partnership | Inwood, IA 51240 | $85,431 |
| 4 | Winline Farms Inc | George, IA 51237 | $82,347 |
| 5 | Bastian Dale Lems | Inwood, IA 51240 | $79,290 |
| 6 | Trei Farms General Partnership | George, IA 51237 | $78,677 |
| 7 | River Ridge Livestock Ltd | Larchwood, IA 51241 | $78,589 |
| 8 | Metzger And Sons Inc | Larchwood, IA 51241 | $72,915 |
| 9 | Rodney E Fastert | Rock Rapids, IA 51246 | $70,226 |
| 10 | Robert W. Blauwet Revocable Trust | Larchwood, IA 51241 | $66,674 |
| 11 | Friedrich Farms Inc | Rock Rapids, IA 51246 | $66,651 |
| 12 | Blh Farm Ltd | Rock Rapids, IA 51246 | $66,213 |
| 13 | Ats Farms Inc | Larchwood, IA 51241 | $60,868 |
| 14 | Dennis Hansmann | George, IA 51237 | $60,372 |
| 15 | David Brown | Inwood, IA 51240 | $59,238 |
| 16 | North Star Feedlot LLC | Rock Valley, IA 51247 | $58,468 |
| 17 | Liquid Pro Inc | Boyden, IA 51234 | $57,897 |
| 18 | Clayton Huisman | Rock Rapids, IA 51246 | $55,402 |
| 19 | Paul A Van Roekel | George, IA 51237 | $53,572 |
| 20 | Darin Knobloch | Rock Rapids, IA 51246 | $53,199 |
* 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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