Conservation Reserve Program in Meade County, Kentucky, 2023
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 19 of 19
Recipients of Conservation Reserve Program from farms in Meade County, Kentucky totaled $59,854 in in 2023.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Conservation Reserve Program 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Watts Properties LLC | Brandenburg, KY 40108 | $11,601 |
| 2 | Richard Butler | Falls Of Rough, KY 40119 | $10,912 |
| 3 | Monica Padgett | Brandenburg, KY 40108 | $6,385 |
| 4 | The Richard Barger Living Trust | Guston, KY 40142 | $5,548 |
| 5 | Doug Mulhall | Louisville, KY 40272 | $3,734 |
| 6 | Raymond Staples | Payneville, KY 40157 | $3,511 |
| 7 | Billy T Brown | Payneville, KY 40157 | $2,911 |
| 8 | Thomas Benock | Battletown, KY 40104 | $2,901 |
| 9 | Stephen Barr | Brandenburg, KY 40108 | $2,218 |
| 10 | Eberhard K Kieslich | Battletown, KY 40104 | $1,886 |
| 11 | Lewis E Dowden | Battletown, KY 40104 | $1,810 |
| 12 | Jill T Pike | Payneville, KY 40157 | $1,234 |
| 13 | Ronald Wesley Haynes | Louisville, KY 40218 | $1,046 |
| 14 | Edward L Hardesty | Brandenburg, KY 40108 | $873 |
| 15 | Alr Farms LLC | Brandenburg, KY 40108 | $865 |
| 16 | Hollis Family Properties LLC | Battletown, KY 40104 | $817 |
| 17 | Michael K Staples | Payneville, KY 40157 | $702 |
| 18 | Sheeran's Farm Inc | Vine Grove, KY 40175 | $618 |
| 19 | Lamar Lee Smith | Battletown, KY 40104 | $282 |
* 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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