Dairy Programs in Franklin County, Massachusetts, 2021
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 21
Recipients of Dairy Programs from farms in Franklin County, Massachusetts totaled $820,000 in in 2021.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Dairy Programs 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bar-way Farm Inc | Deerfield, MA 01342 | $103,119 |
| 2 | Brian M Peila | Gill, MA 01354 | $96,564 |
| 3 | Bree-z-knoll Farm LLC | Leyden, MA 01337 | $88,614 |
| 4 | George Hunt Jr | Orange, MA 01364 | $71,787 |
| 5 | Farm Services Agency ** | Washington, DC 20250 | $61,865 |
| 6 | Mt Toby Farm | Sunderland, MA 01375 | $52,284 |
| 7 | Gunn Farm Inc | Sunderland, MA 01375 | $50,900 |
| 8 | Boyden Bros | Conway, MA 01341 | $50,607 |
| 9 | Robertson Farm | Ashfield, MA 01330 | $45,833 |
| 10 | Kenneth Herzig Dba West Branch Farm | Colrain, MA 01340 | $38,169 |
| 11 | Sunbrite Farm | Bernardston, MA 01337 | $34,647 |
| 12 | Woodslawn Farm LLC | Colrain, MA 01340 | $24,672 |
| 13 | Eric Herzig | Colrain, MA 01340 | $23,025 |
| 14 | Melissa M Griffin | Shelburne Falls, MA 01370 | $21,713 |
| 15 | Deane Roberts Dba Deane Roberts Farm | Colrain, MA 01340 | $21,023 |
| 16 | River Maple Farm Inc | Bernardston, MA 01337 | $16,492 |
| 17 | Brian Belder Dba Belder Farm | South Deerfield, MA 01373 | $11,417 |
| 18 | Paul Willis Dba Clessons River Farm | Buckland, MA 01338 | $5,949 |
| 19 | Belder & Belder | South Deerfield, MA 01373 | $684 |
| 20 | Brian Belder Dba Belder Farm | Whately, MA 01073 | $374 |
* 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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