Direct Payment Program in Kent County, Michigan, 1995-2021
Subsidy Recipients 41 to 60 of 603
Recipients of Direct Payment Program from farms in Kent County, Michigan totaled $12,848,000 in from 1995-2021.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Direct Payment Program 1995-2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | May Farms | Sparta, MI 49345 | $82,312 |
| 42 | Donald Osborn | Rockford, MI 49341 | $81,097 |
| 43 | Charles Porter | Rockford, MI 49341 | $80,691 |
| 44 | Thornapple Valley Dairy Farms LLC | Wayland, MI 49348 | $75,050 |
| 45 | Ronald D Smith | Greenville, MI 48838 | $74,409 |
| 46 | Rick Smith | Sand Lake, MI 49343 | $68,810 |
| 47 | Fred Gave Jr | Gowen, MI 49326 | $67,237 |
| 48 | Michael E Wittenbach | Belding, MI 48809 | $66,878 |
| 49 | Richard Toth | Newaygo, MI 49337 | $64,686 |
| 50 | Harold Metternick Jr | Alto, MI 49302 | $64,530 |
| 51 | Ronald & Mark Alt Farms LLC | Sparta, MI 49345 | $62,357 |
| 52 | Mary L Johnson | Cedar Springs, MI 49319 | $61,043 |
| 53 | Med-o-bloom Farms LLC | Caledonia, MI 49316 | $60,643 |
| 54 | Robert Alt | Comstock Park, MI 49321 | $59,638 |
| 55 | Thomas P Heffron | Belding, MI 48809 | $57,989 |
| 56 | Gary L Johnson | Cedar Springs, MI 49319 | $57,905 |
| 57 | Sunnyridge Acres LLC | Cedar Springs, MI 49319 | $57,219 |
| 58 | Thomas Zook | Alto, MI 49302 | $57,157 |
| 59 | Lawrence G Zahm | Sparta, MI 49345 | $55,872 |
| 60 | Daniel J Kober | Sparta, MI 49345 | $55,329 |
* 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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