Farm Subsidy information
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Total USDA Subsidies in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 2020
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 653
Recipients of Total USDA Subsidies from farms in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania totaled $15,442,000 in in 2020.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total USDA Subsidies 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Franklin Family Farms, Inc | Elizabethtown, PA 17022 | $851,500 |
| 2 | S & A Kreider & Sons Inc * | Quarryville, PA 17566 | $633,265 |
| 3 | Yippee Farms, LLC | Mount Joy, PA 17552 | $425,626 |
| 4 | Franklin View Farms, LLC | Washington Boro, PA 17582 | $362,011 |
| 5 | Star Rock Services * | Conestoga, PA 17516 | $359,088 |
| 6 | Meadow Vista Dairy LLC * | Bainbridge, PA 17502 | $357,111 |
| 7 | Meadow Lane Dairy LLC * | Lancaster, PA 17603 | $326,970 |
| 8 | Graywood Farms LLC * | Peach Bottom, PA 17563 | $300,136 |
| 9 | Laurel Ridge Pig Company | Lancaster, PA 17602 | $250,157 |
| 10 | H Glenn Esbenshade | Lititz, PA 17543 | $250,000 |
| 11 | Rachael B Esbenshade | Lititz, PA 17543 | $250,000 |
| 12 | Brent L Hershey | Marietta, PA 17547 | $249,539 |
| 13 | Lisa A Hershey | Marietta, PA 17547 | $249,536 |
| 14 | Balmer Bros * | Manheim, PA 17545 | $240,931 |
| 15 | Farm Service Agency/commodity Cre ** | Lancaster, PA 17601 | $237,534 |
| 16 | Star Rock Dairy Inc * | Conestoga, PA 17516 | $230,805 |
| 17 | Hope Valley Dairy, LLC | Quarryville, PA 17566 | $211,448 |
| 18 | Landyshade Dairy Farms LLC * | Lancaster, PA 17601 | $210,342 |
| 19 | Scarff Bros. Inc | Ephrata, PA 17522 | $200,000 |
| 20 | Meadow Spring Farm LLC * | Lititz, PA 17543 | $194,943 |
* 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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‡ Data for 2020 includes payments made by USDA through June 30, 2020 and does not include crop insurance premium subsidies.
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