Direct Payment Program in Yellowstone County, Montana, 1995-2021

Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 1,180

Recipients of Direct Payment Program from farms in Yellowstone County, Montana totaled $25,673,000 in from 1995-2021.

Rank Recipient
(* ownership information available)
Location Direct Payment Program
1995-2021
1Becker FarmingBillings, MT 59101$1,071,134
2Cybulski BrothersCuster, MT 59024$703,706
3Patriot FarmsBillings, MT 59107$701,033
4Becker Land & Livestock IncBillings, MT 59101$385,659
5Cloverdale Farm IncBroadview, MT 59015$370,982
6Mountain View Colony IncBroadview, MT 59015$349,526
7Jack L KukowskiBillings, MT 59101$338,382
8Ronald L Harding Revocable TrustBillings, MT 59101$300,226
9Lee Grain & LivestockBillings, MT 59101$292,116
10Thomas E HartLaurel, MT 59044$273,731
11Alan L MilksBillings, MT 59101$252,653
12Ronald W StaleyLaurel, MT 59044$231,916
13Jorgenson RanchBroadview, MT 59015$227,462
14Travis L KehlerSaint Xavier, MT 59075$219,468
15Patricia - Hart Land HartLaurel, MT 59044$211,525
16Laurence SteigerPompeys Pillar, MT 59064$208,802
17Vale Creek RanchBillings, MT 59101$208,538
18Cynthia A StaleyLaurel, MT 59044$198,508
19Forrest EwenBallantine, MT 59006$191,719
20Terry HartLaurel, MT 59044$189,817

* 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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