Farm Subsidy information
Hand County, South Dakota
Total Subsidies in Hand County, South Dakota, 1995-2021
Subsidy Recipients 21 to 40 of 1,824
Recipients of Total Subsidies from farms in Hand County, South Dakota totaled $550,322,000 in from 1995-2021.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total Subsidies 1995-2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Kent A Bertsch | Saint Lawrence, SD 57373 | $1,936,997 |
| 22 | Clarence H Wagner Living Trust | Miller, SD 57362 | $1,857,779 |
| 23 | Clements Farms | Miller, SD 57362 | $1,821,129 |
| 24 | Lori Fremark | Saint Lawrence, SD 57373 | $1,682,299 |
| 25 | Todd Naber | Miller, SD 57362 | $1,657,623 |
| 26 | George Melber Living Trust | Saint Lawrence, SD 57373 | $1,653,618 |
| 27 | Mable M Wagner Living Trust | Miller, SD 57362 | $1,648,150 |
| 28 | Kraig Jackson | Zell, SD 57469 | $1,631,481 |
| 29 | Schaefers Dairy | Miller, SD 57362 | $1,505,986 |
| 30 | James Waring | Ree Heights, SD 57371 | $1,501,574 |
| 31 | Todd Bushong | Tulare, SD 57476 | $1,404,575 |
| 32 | Bottum Brothers Partnership | Tulare, SD 57476 | $1,387,963 |
| 33 | George M Schade | Redfield, SD 57469 | $1,372,713 |
| 34 | Strasburg Inc | Harrisburg, SD 57032 | $1,330,064 |
| 35 | Reimann Ranch LLC | Miller, SD 57362 | $1,305,446 |
| 36 | Lee William Lichty Living Trust | Wessington, SD 57381 | $1,301,915 |
| 37 | Sd Building Authority | Sioux Falls, SD 57117 | $1,287,824 |
| 38 | Leo J Naber Living Trust | Orient, SD 57467 | $1,282,895 |
| 39 | Holt Ranch | Orient, SD 57467 | $1,280,933 |
| 40 | Douglas L Simons Revocable Living Tr | Saint Lawrence, SD 57373 | $1,264,196 |
* 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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