Conservation Reserve Program in Minnesota, 2020
Subsidy Recipients 21 to 40 of 30,627
Recipients of Conservation Reserve Program from farms in Minnesota totaled $134,493,000 in in 2020.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Conservation Reserve Program 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Charles Theis | Veseli, MN 55046 | $55,280 |
| 22 | State Bank Of Taunton ** | Taunton, MN 56291 | $54,439 |
| 23 | Frontier Family Farms | Albert Lea, MN 56007 | $54,200 |
| 24 | Peter Dietz | New Prague, MN 56071 | $54,133 |
| 25 | Gmg Farms | Euclid, MN 56722 | $54,047 |
| 26 | Curtis Tieman | Goodridge, MN 56725 | $52,462 |
| 27 | John M Peter J & Steven F Thompson Whiskey Creek F | Barnesville, MN 56514 | $51,937 |
| 28 | Cottonwood Turkey Farm Inc | Sleepy Eye, MN 56085 | $51,016 |
| 29 | Zimmerman Pinedale Inc | Waseca, MN 56093 | $50,912 |
| 30 | Darlene Novacek | Greenbush, MN 56726 | $50,000 |
| 31 | Hatlestad Bros | New London, MN 56273 | $50,000 |
| 32 | Janine Schmidt | Dumont, MN 56236 | $50,000 |
| 33 | Michael W O'connor | Blooming Prairie, MN 55917 | $50,000 |
| 34 | Lloyd C Kruse | Okoboji, IA 51355 | $50,000 |
| 35 | William Nelson | Balaton, MN 56115 | $50,000 |
| 36 | Stanley H Thompson | Owatonna, MN 55060 | $50,000 |
| 37 | Catherine Van Leeuwe Rev Trust | Ghent, MN 56239 | $50,000 |
| 38 | Randy M Van Leeuwe | Ghent, MN 56239 | $50,000 |
| 39 | Walter Van Dyk | Lake Wilson, MN 56151 | $50,000 |
| 40 | Russell Knutson | Brandon, SD 57005 | $50,000 |
* 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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