Corn Subsidies in Shelby County, Iowa, 1995-2020‡
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 2,325
Recipients of Corn Subsidies from farms in Shelby County, Iowa totaled $252,445,000 in from 1995-2020‡.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Corn Subsidies 1995-2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Loess Hills Inc * | Panama, IA 51562 | $1,091,473 |
| 2 | Kcpj Inc * | Panama, IA 51562 | $1,022,523 |
| 3 | Schechinger Farms Inc * | Harlan, IA 51537 | $1,021,245 |
| 4 | Reinig, Inc. * | Portsmouth, IA 51565 | $1,020,003 |
| 5 | Thomas J Schmitz Rev Trust | Harlan, IA 51537 | $964,999 |
| 6 | Reinig Farms Corp * | Portsmouth, IA 51565 | $956,387 |
| 7 | Buman Farms Inc * | Harlan, IA 51537 | $922,899 |
| 8 | Chipman Farms Ltd * | Harlan, IA 51537 | $911,840 |
| 9 | Garry E Blum | Harlan, IA 51537 | $843,158 |
| 10 | Growers United * | Harlan, IA 51537 | $805,403 |
| 11 | Valerian Schmitz | Harlan, IA 51537 | $783,866 |
| 12 | Tom Reinig Ltd * | Portsmouth, IA 51565 | $752,003 |
| 13 | Richard L Goshorn 2013 Trust | Harlan, IA 51537 | $742,039 |
| 14 | Donald F Peters Trustee | Avoca, IA 51521 | $703,293 |
| 15 | Todd D Larsen | Harlan, IA 51537 | $689,341 |
| 16 | Stephen August Schnuettgen | Defiance, IA 51527 | $685,818 |
| 17 | Dennis E Arkfeld | Harlan, IA 51537 | $685,693 |
| 18 | Douglas J Smith | Atlantic, IA 50022 | $681,772 |
| 19 | William Bradley O'day | Dunlap, IA 51529 | $667,765 |
| 20 | Richard - Richard I I Lee | Avoca, IA 51521 | $663,412 |
* 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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