Wetlands Reserve Program in Minnesota, 1995-2020‡
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 607
Recipients of Wetlands Reserve Program from farms in Minnesota totaled $30,261,000 in from 1995-2020‡.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Wetlands Reserve Program 1995-2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nycklemoe Ellig &nycklemoe | Fergus Falls, MN 56537 | $6,340,789 |
| 2 | Lesueur County Abstract Co | Le Center, MN 56057 | $6,098,237 |
| 3 | Lesueur Cty Abstract Co | Le Center, MN 56057 | $2,904,271 |
| 4 | The Nature Conservancy * | Minneapolis, MN 55415 | $1,865,126 |
| 5 | Nyckemoe Ellig & Nycklemoe | Fergus Falls, MN 56537 | $849,236 |
| 6 | Nanik Construction | Staples, MN 56479 | $355,828 |
| 7 | Joe Stenger | Detroit Lakes, MN 56501 | $321,293 |
| 8 | Arvid Broden | Gary, MN 56545 | $307,526 |
| 9 | Roger M Broden | Fertile, MN 56540 | $300,454 |
| 10 | Lesueur County Abstract Co.,inc. | Le Center, MN 56057 | $243,765 |
| 11 | Minnesota Valley Lands Inc * | Bloomington, MN 55425 | $186,714 |
| 12 | Robert A Gehrke | Elbow Lake, MN 56531 | $185,652 |
| 13 | Michael E Connealy | Wayzata, MN 55391 | $181,091 |
| 14 | Nycklemoe Ellig &nicklemoe | Fergus Falls, MN 56537 | $173,159 |
| 15 | Carlson Prairie Seed Farm | Newfolden, MN 56738 | $169,854 |
| 16 | Roseau-lake Of The Woods | Roseau, MN 56751 | $166,307 |
| 17 | Robert Gehrke D/b/a B & J | Elbow Lake, MN 56531 | $159,452 |
| 18 | Riley Bros Construction | Morris, MN 56267 | $157,947 |
| 19 | Fish & Wildlife Service | Erskine, MN 56535 | $153,379 |
| 20 | Riley Bros Const Inc | Morris, MN 56267 | $133,529 |
* 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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‡ Data for 2020 includes payments made by USDA through June 30, 2020 and does not include crop insurance premium subsidies.
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