Farm Subsidy information
Franklin County, Pennsylvania
Total Subsidies in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, 2019
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 415
Recipients of Total Subsidies from farms in Franklin County, Pennsylvania totaled $9,591,000 in in 2019.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total Subsidies 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Farm Services Agency ** | Washington, DC 20250 | $403,992 |
| 2 | Mercer-vu Farms Inc | Mercersburg, PA 17236 | $296,968 |
| 3 | Leshers Poultry Farm Inc | Chambersburg, PA 17202 | $125,229 |
| 4 | Martin Farms | Chambersburg, PA 17202 | $116,950 |
| 5 | Hawbaker Farms LLC | Waynesboro, PA 17268 | $113,378 |
| 6 | Stoner's Hijos Hill Inc | Mercersburg, PA 17236 | $112,405 |
| 7 | Stanley J Burkholder | Chambersburg, PA 17202 | $102,636 |
| 8 | Fisher Farms | Saint Thomas, PA 17252 | $101,350 |
| 9 | Lesher Farms LLC | Chambersburg, PA 17202 | $97,698 |
| 10 | Hissong Farmstead Inc | Mercersburg, PA 17236 | $96,741 |
| 11 | Brechland Farms | Fayetteville, PA 17222 | $95,062 |
| 12 | Marcreek Farms LLC | Greencastle, PA 17225 | $94,892 |
| 13 | Hollowacres Farm LLC | Pleasant Hall, PA 17246 | $85,953 |
| 14 | Milton E Rotz, Sp | Shippensburg, PA 17257 | $69,395 |
| 15 | Frey's Farm Dairy LLC | Chambersburg, PA 17202 | $66,185 |
| 16 | Twin Oaks Dairy LLC | Mercersburg, PA 17236 | $65,403 |
| 17 | Antietam Farms LLC | Waynesboro, PA 17268 | $63,992 |
| 18 | Roy B Biesecker | Waynesboro, PA 17268 | $63,441 |
| 19 | Meyers Brothers Dairy | Saint Thomas, PA 17252 | $63,027 |
| 20 | Two Top Holsteins LLC | Mercersburg, PA 17236 | $62,427 |
* 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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