Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) Program in Michigan, 2020
Subsidy Recipients 21 to 40 of 11,297
Recipients of Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) Program from farms in Michigan totaled $43,842,000 in in 2020.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) Program 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Vangilder Grains | Fowlerville, MI 48836 | $84,656 |
| 22 | Tri-acre Farms | Davison, MI 48423 | $82,717 |
| 23 | Tdi Farms, LLC | Portland, MI 48875 | $82,211 |
| 24 | Irrer Farm | Fowler, MI 48835 | $77,184 |
| 25 | Stark Farms | Niles, MI 49120 | $74,579 |
| 26 | Robinson Farms LLC | Grand Ledge, MI 48837 | $73,777 |
| 27 | Matthew D Kauffman | Mendon, MI 49072 | $72,350 |
| 28 | Steven D Gibbs | Portland, MI 48875 | $70,210 |
| 29 | Kevin Dow | Mulliken, MI 48861 | $70,136 |
| 30 | Zelinko Bros LLC | Saint Charles, MI 48655 | $68,769 |
| 31 | Donald H Drews | Saint Charles, MI 48655 | $68,623 |
| 32 | Halbert Dairy Farm LLC | Battle Creek, MI 49017 | $68,052 |
| 33 | Char Lin Farms Inc | Hudson, MI 49247 | $67,339 |
| 34 | John Wirtz & Sons Inc | Freeland, MI 48623 | $66,171 |
| 35 | Nicholas C Spitzley | Vermontville, MI 49096 | $64,855 |
| 36 | Swanson Pickle Co Inc | Ravenna, MI 49451 | $64,082 |
| 37 | Eldon Wright | Charlotte, MI 48813 | $61,603 |
| 38 | Vance H Buchholz | Charlotte, MI 48813 | $61,227 |
| 39 | Kristine E Buchholz | Charlotte, MI 48813 | $61,227 |
| 40 | Felzke Farms | Dewitt, MI 48820 | $60,711 |
* 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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