Market Facilitation Program (MFP) in Cheatham County, Tennessee, 1995-2021
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 19 of 19
Recipients of Market Facilitation Program (MFP) from farms in Cheatham County, Tennessee totaled $307,000 in from 1995-2021.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Market Facilitation Program (MFP) 1995-2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joan Weakley | Clarksville, TN 37043 | $104,639 |
| 2 | Bruce Lee Batson Jr | Ashland City, TN 37015 | $46,380 |
| 3 | Tommy Jordan | Ashland City, TN 37015 | $29,848 |
| 4 | Freddy Pritchett Jr | Pleasant View, TN 37146 | $28,655 |
| 5 | Daniel Weakley | Ashland City, TN 37015 | $25,498 |
| 6 | Jason Balthrop | Chapmansboro, TN 37035 | $23,391 |
| 7 | John L Borum Jr | Ashland City, TN 37015 | $22,091 |
| 8 | Randy Chamberlain | Ashland City, TN 37015 | $21,554 |
| 9 | Dixieland Company | Ashland City, TN 37015 | $1,022 |
| 10 | Charles Head | Ashland City, TN 37015 | $860 |
| 11 | Ruby G Jinnette | Pleasant View, TN 37146 | $707 |
| 12 | James A Clifton | Springfield, TN 37172 | $680 |
| 13 | The John W Melton 2012 Family Tru | Ashland City, TN 37015 | $517 |
| 14 | H F Batts Jr | Ashland City, TN 37015 | $420 |
| 15 | Johnny Melton | Ashland City, TN 37015 | $366 |
| 16 | James T Walker | Cedar Hill, TN 37032 | $291 |
| 17 | Sandra Kilgore | Pleasant View, TN 37146 | $190 |
| 18 | Martha W Newton | Ashland City, TN 37015 | $176 |
| 19 | The John W Melton 2012 Family Tru | Ashland City, TN 37015 | $172 |
* 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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