Dairy Programs in Montana, 1995-2023
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 224
Recipients of Dairy Programs from farms in Montana totaled $21,283,000 in from 1995-2023.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Dairy Programs 1995-2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pondera Colony Inc | Valier, MT 59486 | $553,744 |
| 2 | David Lewis | Victor, MT 59875 | $546,718 |
| 3 | Pleasant Valley Colony | Belt, MT 59412 | $537,891 |
| 4 | Dairyland Farms Inc | Manhattan, MT 59741 | $537,033 |
| 5 | Riverview Colony Inc | Chester, MT 59522 | $533,755 |
| 6 | Big Stone Colony Inc | Sand Coulee, MT 59472 | $511,274 |
| 7 | Plain-vista Dairy LLC | Manhattan, MT 59741 | $503,791 |
| 8 | Fairhaven Colony Inc | Ulm, MT 59485 | $483,972 |
| 9 | Deerfield Hutterian Brethren Inc | Lewistown, MT 59457 | $473,769 |
| 10 | Springwater Colony Inc | Harlowton, MT 59036 | $473,562 |
| 11 | Cascade Colony Inc | Sun River, MT 59483 | $468,305 |
| 12 | Leep Dairy LLC | Three Forks, MT 59752 | $454,155 |
| 13 | Seville Colony Inc | Cut Bank, MT 59427 | $444,924 |
| 14 | Camrose Colony Inc | Ledger, MT 59456 | $444,515 |
| 15 | Birch Creek Colony | Valier, MT 59486 | $435,684 |
| 16 | Rockport Colony Inc | Pendroy, MT 59467 | $399,985 |
| 17 | Kingsbury Colony | Valier, MT 59486 | $395,996 |
| 18 | Martinsdale Colony | Martinsdale, MT 59053 | $387,630 |
| 19 | Glacier Colony Inc | Cut Bank, MT 59427 | $365,430 |
| 20 | Hidden Lake Colony Inc | Cut Bank, MT 59427 | $354,421 |
* 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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