Farm Subsidy information
Watonwan County, Minnesota
Total Subsidies in Watonwan County, Minnesota, 2019
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 791
Recipients of Total Subsidies from farms in Watonwan County, Minnesota totaled $28,858,000 in in 2019.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total Subsidies 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pioneer Bank ** | Saint James, MN 56081 | $880,737 |
| 2 | Wolle Farms | Saint James, MN 56081 | $596,151 |
| 3 | Downs Family Farms | Mankato, MN 56001 | $387,467 |
| 4 | Bottem Farms Inc | Saint James, MN 56081 | $343,437 |
| 5 | Brent D Coleman | Saint James, MN 56081 | $335,299 |
| 6 | Riverdale Inc | Fairmont, MN 56031 | $334,492 |
| 7 | Mike Brandts | Saint James, MN 56081 | $332,937 |
| 8 | David Pettersen | Madelia, MN 56062 | $297,737 |
| 9 | Matthew J Wolle | Saint James, MN 56081 | $256,152 |
| 10 | Terry Pettersen | Madelia, MN 56062 | $240,994 |
| 11 | Brian N Spitzner | Saint James, MN 56081 | $228,481 |
| 12 | Steinle Farms Inc | Butterfield, MN 56120 | $217,192 |
| 13 | Brad M Asendorf | Saint James, MN 56081 | $204,094 |
| 14 | Gregory Dean Romsdahl | Butterfield, MN 56120 | $202,492 |
| 15 | Lowell Pietsch | Madelia, MN 56062 | $198,605 |
| 16 | Lori A Feder-pietsch | Madelia, MN 56062 | $198,605 |
| 17 | William Kunz | Madelia, MN 56062 | $197,961 |
| 18 | Bradley D Bowers | Lewisville, MN 56060 | $193,743 |
| 19 | James Hopman | Madelia, MN 56062 | $193,363 |
| 20 | Geistfeld Bros Farms | Saint James, MN 56081 | $178,018 |
* 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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