Direct Payment Program in Pawnee County, Nebraska, 1995-2021
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 1,019
Recipients of Direct Payment Program from farms in Pawnee County, Nebraska totaled $15,836,000 in from 1995-2021.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Direct Payment Program 1995-2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jay K Wischmeier | Burchard, NE 68323 | $249,912 |
| 2 | Mark A Sunneberg | Pawnee City, NE 68420 | $238,371 |
| 3 | Paul Sisco | Burchard, NE 68323 | $206,972 |
| 4 | Marc Paul Hunzeker | Du Bois, NE 68345 | $199,850 |
| 5 | Donald Warren Bloss | Pawnee City, NE 68420 | $194,072 |
| 6 | Dennis Schuster | Steinauer, NE 68441 | $166,276 |
| 7 | Harlan Beethe | Elk Creek, NE 68348 | $163,896 |
| 8 | Clark Hunzeker | Pawnee City, NE 68420 | $163,107 |
| 9 | Pat Sunneberg Farms Inc | Pawnee City, NE 68420 | $162,491 |
| 10 | Koester Farms | Du Bois, NE 68345 | $151,085 |
| 11 | Duane Lee Wilkinson | Burchard, NE 68323 | $146,308 |
| 12 | Michael Parks | Pawnee City, NE 68420 | $140,199 |
| 13 | Smith Family Farms Inc | Pawnee City, NE 68420 | $139,363 |
| 14 | John Bryan Sisco | Burchard, NE 68323 | $128,679 |
| 15 | Frazee Farms | Summerfield, KS 66541 | $128,057 |
| 16 | Larry Wilkinson | Beatrice, NE 68310 | $127,173 |
| 17 | Kendall Binder | Pawnee City, NE 68420 | $126,232 |
| 18 | Morrison Trust | Liberty, NE 68381 | $121,034 |
| 19 | Jurgens Farms | Summerfield, KS 66541 | $121,018 |
| 20 | Marvin Luedders | Burchard, NE 68323 | $120,797 |
* 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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