Grasslands Reserve Program in Montana, 2023
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 11 of 11
Recipients of Grasslands Reserve Program from farms in Montana totaled $241,000 in in 2023.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Grasslands Reserve Program 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gordon Cattle Company | Chinook, MT 59523 | $50,000 |
| 2 | Barthelmess Ranch Corp | Malta, MT 59538 | $49,127 |
| 3 | Lehfeldt Land & Livestock | Lavina, MT 59046 | $47,060 |
| 4 | Loving U Ranch | Columbus, MT 59019 | $38,214 |
| 5 | Mule Tracks Cattle Co | Malta, MT 59538 | $18,573 |
| 6 | Kevin D Halverson | Big Timber, MT 59011 | $17,866 |
| 7 | Sweetgrass Hills Ranch Inc | Sunburst, MT 59482 | $9,696 |
| 8 | Veseth And Veseth Lvst Co Inc | Malta, MT 59538 | $5,401 |
| 9 | B Ray Beck | Helena, MT 59601 | $2,728 |
| 10 | Bruce E Kirkaldie | Dodson, MT 59524 | $1,680 |
| 11 | Kristal L Hawley | Harlem, MT 59526 | $1,080 |
* 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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