Total Commodity Programs in Lake County, Michigan, 1995-2021
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 97
Recipients of Total Commodity Programs from farms in Lake County, Michigan totaled $1,325,000 in from 1995-2021.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total Commodity Programs 1995-2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lapointe Farms | Branch, MI 49402 | $569,264 |
| 2 | Schooley Farms LLC | Reed City, MI 49677 | $177,103 |
| 3 | Schooley Farms LLC | Reed City, MI 49677 | $112,138 |
| 4 | Kenneth Parker | Branch, MI 49402 | $105,164 |
| 5 | Jack R Brace | West Olive, MI 49460 | $49,486 |
| 6 | Darwin D Eichenberg | Reed City, MI 49677 | $46,535 |
| 7 | Gus & Eugene Motzer Farm | Luther, MI 49656 | $25,155 |
| 8 | Wayne Beilfuss | Reed City, MI 49677 | $20,839 |
| 9 | John Lapointe | Branch, MI 49402 | $19,994 |
| 10 | Donald Jensen | Irons, MI 49644 | $15,539 |
| 11 | John Holden | Lansing, MI 48906 | $13,730 |
| 12 | Richard Ikens | Reed City, MI 49677 | $12,533 |
| 13 | Jeannine Lapointe | Branch, MI 49402 | $12,000 |
| 14 | Robert Cossette | Branch, MI 49402 | $11,920 |
| 15 | Ronald A House | Byron Center, MI 49315 | $7,948 |
| 16 | Jack Thornton | Reed City, MI 49677 | $7,821 |
| 17 | Farm Services Agency ** | Washington, DC 20250 | $6,535 |
| 18 | Aaron Frank | Lead, SD 57754 | $5,998 |
| 19 | Thomas Wiley | Holland, MI 49424 | $5,945 |
| 20 | Allen Oomen | Custer, MI 49405 | $5,861 |
* 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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