Total Livestock Indemnity Program in South Dakota, 2019‡
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 1,977
Recipients of Total Livestock Indemnity Program from farms in South Dakota totaled $15,468,000 in in 2019‡.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total Livestock Indemnity Program 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arledge Livestock Company LLC * | Robert Lee, TX 76945 | $183,432 |
| 2 | Commodity Credit Corporation ** | Langdon, ND 58249 | $142,061 |
| 3 | Pat L Heathershaw | Wall, SD 57790 | $138,214 |
| 4 | Champaygn Ranch Inc * | Goodwin, SD 57238 | $110,107 |
| 5 | Thomas L O'rourke | Interior, SD 57750 | $108,291 |
| 6 | Antonia June Romero | Belvidere, SD 57521 | $103,608 |
| 7 | Tschetter Huterian Brethern Inc * | Olivet, SD 57052 | $95,297 |
| 8 | Onida Lamb Company Llp * | Onida, SD 57564 | $89,376 |
| 9 | David Keester | Manderson, SD 57756 | $81,001 |
| 10 | Gary Mattke | Huron, SD 57350 | $74,022 |
| 11 | Triple R Ranch Inc * | Miller, SD 57362 | $73,015 |
| 12 | First National Bank Of Gordon ** | Gordon, NE 69343 | $71,474 |
| 13 | Chancy J Wilson | Kyle, SD 57752 | $64,463 |
| 14 | Judith Merdanian | Oglala, SD 57764 | $63,727 |
| 15 | Glen Michael Aldentaler | Britton, SD 57430 | $59,744 |
| 16 | West Cattle Company LLC | Pierre, SD 57501 | $59,357 |
| 17 | Christopher Slaba | Geddes, SD 57342 | $59,192 |
| 18 | Wayde Boldon | Oglala, SD 57764 | $59,088 |
| 19 | First Interstate Bank ** | Great Falls, MT 59403 | $58,800 |
| 20 | Mary Kaye Gesinger | Eagle Butte, SD 57625 | $55,725 |
* 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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