Wetlands Reserve Program in Winnebago County, Iowa, 1995-2021
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 25
Recipients of Wetlands Reserve Program from farms in Winnebago County, Iowa totaled $879,000 in from 1995-2021.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Wetlands Reserve Program 1995-2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northern Prairie Farms | Des Moines, IA 50312 | $232,670 |
| 2 | K & N Excavating & Tiling | Thompson, IA 50478 | $123,465 |
| 3 | Iowa Department Of Natural Resources | Des Moines, IA 50319 | $99,385 |
| 4 | Winnebago County Conservation Board | Forest City, IA 50436 | $93,119 |
| 5 | Keith Lester Wirth | Desoto, KS 66018 | $58,167 |
| 6 | Charles Payne | Prior Lake, MN 55372 | $47,745 |
| 7 | Jeffrey Charles Holland | Forest City, IA 50436 | $47,426 |
| 8 | Peterson Excavating & Drainage In | Kensett, IA 50448 | $41,978 |
| 9 | Steven C Steinberg | Buffalo Center, IA 50424 | $20,912 |
| 10 | Valere & Elaine Nelson Rev Trust | Forest City, IA 50436 | $20,371 |
| 11 | Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation | Des Moines, IA 50309 | $19,323 |
| 12 | Vincent Finer | Leland, IA 50453 | $17,878 |
| 13 | Valere Holtan | Forest City, IA 50436 | $14,192 |
| 14 | Michael Korth | Forest City, IA 50436 | $13,852 |
| 15 | John T Ruger | Lakewood, CO 80228 | $11,278 |
| 16 | Arland Rasmussen | West Fargo, ND 58078 | $3,705 |
| 17 | Thomas O Kingland | Lake Mills, IA 50450 | $3,300 |
| 18 | Michael Kohman | Minnetrista, MN 55364 | $3,052 |
| 19 | Michael Lietz | Forest City, IA 50436 | $2,431 |
| 20 | Charles Tweeten | Forest City, IA 50436 | $1,717 |
* 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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