Farm Subsidy information
Wise County, Virginia
Total USDA Subsidies in Wise County, Virginia, 1995-2020‡
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 141
Recipients of Total USDA Subsidies from farms in Wise County, Virginia totaled $534,000 in from 1995-2020‡.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total USDA Subsidies 1995-2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Woody Lynn Franklin | Big Stone Gap, VA 24219 | $83,898 |
| 2 | R Matthew Couch | Castlewood, VA 24224 | $79,303 |
| 3 | Jason Bush | Castlewood, VA 24224 | $29,269 |
| 4 | Clinch Haven Farms Inc * | Big Stone Gap, VA 24219 | $28,938 |
| 5 | Melvin Belcher | Pound, VA 24279 | $23,612 |
| 6 | Mcclellan Salyer | Castlewood, VA 24224 | $21,401 |
| 7 | Bobby Ray Branham | Pound, VA 24279 | $18,574 |
| 8 | Danny Cantrell | Pound, VA 24279 | $18,119 |
| 9 | The Gap Cattle Co Inc * | Pound, VA 24279 | $17,691 |
| 10 | Bruce Riggs | Big Stone Gap, VA 24219 | $14,253 |
| 11 | Sandra Kay Franklin | Big Stone Gap, VA 24219 | $12,083 |
| 12 | Lloyd E Mullins | Wise, VA 24293 | $11,227 |
| 13 | Gregory Norris | Big Stone Gap, VA 24219 | $11,226 |
| 14 | Starling Fleming | Pound, VA 24279 | $10,765 |
| 15 | Charlie Ramsey | Wise, VA 24293 | $8,648 |
| 16 | J G Galloway | Big Stone Gap, VA 24219 | $8,629 |
| 17 | Woodrow Franklin | Big Stone Gap, VA 24219 | $5,234 |
| 18 | Terry Dickenson | Big Stone Gap, VA 24219 | $4,726 |
| 19 | Linda S Kennedy Holbrook | Castlewood, VA 24224 | $4,496 |
| 20 | Carson Boggs | Pound, VA 24279 | $4,421 |
* 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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