Total Commodity Programs in 17th District of Illinois (Rep. Cheri Bustos), 2021
Subsidy Recipients 21 to 40 of 1,312
Recipients of Total Commodity Programs from farms in 17th District of Illinois (Rep. Cheri Bustos) totaled $13,241,000 in in 2021.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total Commodity Programs 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Close Farms | Reynolds, IL 61279 | $69,816 |
| 22 | Todd Declercq | Hillsdale, IL 61257 | $64,851 |
| 23 | Theill Farms Inc | East Dubuque, IL 61025 | $64,788 |
| 24 | Offenheiser Family Farm Partnership | Elizabeth, IL 61028 | $64,766 |
| 25 | Dennis Steffes | Elizabeth, IL 61028 | $63,527 |
| 26 | Jane Steffes | Elizabeth, IL 61028 | $63,527 |
| 27 | Joanne Murdock | Reynolds, IL 61279 | $61,486 |
| 28 | Bohnsack Farms Inc | Elizabeth, IL 61028 | $59,182 |
| 29 | Kevin E Martin | Warren, IL 61087 | $58,505 |
| 30 | Hetz Farms Partnership | Cordova, IL 61242 | $57,704 |
| 31 | Wayne Walter Franck | Aledo, IL 61231 | $56,470 |
| 32 | Hawley Family Farm Inc | Stockton, IL 61085 | $55,781 |
| 33 | Luke J Heitkamp | East Dubuque, IL 61025 | $51,949 |
| 34 | Jeffrey R Kirwan | New Windsor, IL 61465 | $50,232 |
| 35 | Nicholas J Heitkamp | East Dubuque, IL 61025 | $50,054 |
| 36 | Adam J Schroeder | Coal Valley, IL 61240 | $48,083 |
| 37 | William H Onken | Illinois City, IL 61259 | $47,742 |
| 38 | Shawn P Theill | East Dubuque, IL 61025 | $46,795 |
| 39 | Douglas Walter | Elizabeth, IL 61028 | $46,754 |
| 40 | Bradley D Bieri | Aledo, IL 61231 | $46,440 |
* 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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