Emergency Conservation Program in Montana, 2020
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 36
Recipients of Emergency Conservation Program from farms in Montana totaled $493,000 in in 2020.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Emergency Conservation Program 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Calf Creek Cattle Company LLC | Sand Springs, MT 59077 | $141,848 |
| 2 | Padlock Ranch Co | Ranchester, WY 82839 | $95,245 |
| 3 | Independence Bank ** | Havre, MT 59501 | $61,271 |
| 4 | F Outfit Inc | Shelby, MT 59474 | $28,351 |
| 5 | Orville & Arlene Skogen Dba Skogen Ranch | Fort Shaw, MT 59443 | $17,058 |
| 6 | Bill Harris | Winnett, MT 59087 | $12,522 |
| 7 | Sharlee Hamilton | Augusta, MT 59410 | $12,443 |
| 8 | Trent Sizemore | Billings, MT 59108 | $11,863 |
| 9 | Les-terr Farms | Ledger, MT 59456 | $10,730 |
| 10 | Tim Neuman | Great Falls, MT 59404 | $10,322 |
| 11 | M & M Farms | Shelby, MT 59474 | $8,400 |
| 12 | Michael D Powell | Chinook, MT 59523 | $6,725 |
| 13 | Lewis John Krutzfeldt | Powderville, MT 59345 | $6,669 |
| 14 | Karen Krutzfeldt | Powderville, MT 59345 | $6,669 |
| 15 | Joseph M Toth | Havre, MT 59501 | $6,310 |
| 16 | Blenton Ranch Co Dba Flying Shithouse Ranch | Augusta, MT 59410 | $6,157 |
| 17 | David B Dutton | Sand Springs, MT 59077 | $5,688 |
| 18 | Jeffrey W Sather | Harlem, MT 59526 | $4,679 |
| 19 | Bowles J5 Reds Inc | Chinook, MT 59523 | $4,627 |
| 20 | Bynum Livestock LLC | Stanford, MT 59479 | $4,264 |
* 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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