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In 2021, 126 farmers in cities within Washburn County received a total of $1.6 million in 218 farm subsidies, a 57.3% decrease compared to 2020, when the total was $3.8 million in 495 farm subsidies.
Though farm subsidies support agriculture in the U.S., pumping $7 trillion into the economy, they are not without controversy.
The American Action Forum discovered that the most highly subsidized crops - corn, soy, wheat, and rice - are often consumed in highly processed ways, which leads to unhealthy eating habits and obesity, while the fruits and vegetables needed for a healthy diet are rarely subsidized.
"We are consuming more calories, fats, sodium, and sugars, and not enough beneficial nutrients and vitamins," Tara O'Neill Hayes wrote. "It is critical that both policymakers and the American public understand the influence that federal agricultural subsidies have on our food supply and diet and, in turn, our nutrition and health."
Farm subsidies have also been criticized for assisting the highest-earning agricultural businesses, not local farmers on their family farms who are barely getting by.
Kimberly Amadeo of The Balance said farmer subsidies "help high-income corporations, not poor rural farmers. Most of the money goes toward large agribusinesses."
The U.S. has provided farm subsidies since the Great Depression to assist farmers who weather price fluctuations and disasters, to help maintain consistent farming across the country.
| Farmer | Total Received in 2020 | Total Received in 2021 | % Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legacy Farms, LLC | $1,131,268 | $179,851 | -84.1% |
| Glen W. Albee | $400,110 | $162,745 | -59.3% |
| Birch Lane Farm | $188,566 | $137,712 | -27% |
| River Valley Dairy, LLC | $160,971 | $97,765 | -39.3% |
| Greenridge Farms, LLC | $59,874 | $97,387 | 62.7% |
| Cullan Hanacek | $0 | $53,700 | -- |
| Lawrence Logging, LLC | $0 | $52,875 | -- |
| Brian L. Meister | $67,559 | $49,803 | -26.3% |
| Todd C Schrankel | $124,231 | $46,464 | -62.6% |
| Farm Service Agency/Commodity Credit Corporation | $0 | $46,136 | -- |
| West Lawn Enterprises | $150,032 | $43,664 | -70.9% |
| Quam Family Farm, LLC | $44,780 | $36,501 | -18.5% |
| Perlick Farms, LLC | $87,923 | $32,429 | -63.1% |
| Lloyd Stellrecht | $34,767 | $30,975 | -10.9% |
| Joseph R Romportl | $76,346 | $26,757 | -65% |
| Charles G. Spaulding | $44,781 | $26,003 | -41.9% |
| Steven R. Dahlstrom | $56,983 | $25,225 | -55.7% |
| West Lawn Farms, Inc. | $67,990 | $24,262 | -64.3% |
| Samuel V. Mechtel | $41,751 | $21,488 | -48.5% |
| Herbert J Schrankel | $70,645 | $21,353 | -69.8% |
| Just US Achers, Inc. | $35,592 | $20,903 | -41.3% |
| Richard L. Hargrave | $0 | $17,750 | -- |
| John F. McCool | $0 | $16,842 | -- |
| Scalzo Enterprises, Inc. | $0 | $16,270 | -- |
| S & S Dairy | $0 | $13,964 | -- |
| Sawyer Brook Farms | $25,999 | $13,452 | -48.3% |
| Richard R. Kidder | $18,769 | $12,708 | -32.3% |
| Frey Farms Tim Frey, LLC | $31,873 | $12,550 | -60.6% |
| Ripplinger Farms, Inc. | $39,847 | $11,694 | -70.7% |
| Curtis J. Skluzacek | $14,595 | $11,094 | -24% |
| Daniel Stellrecht | $39,556 | $11,039 | -72.1% |
| Ricky Hanson | $26,551 | $10,709 | -59.7% |
| Karl J Plesums | $33,534 | $10,098 | -69.9% |
| John L. Zoellick | $27,049 | $9,577 | -64.6% |
| Duane I. Johnson | $27,333 | $9,324 | -65.9% |
| Roman Toby Graber | $18,284 | $9,111 | -50.2% |
| Luke Wallace Gregory | $0 | $8,855 | -- |
| Frey Farm-a Partnership | $19,803 | $8,777 | -55.7% |
| Dale M. Stellrecht Jr. | $2,174 | $8,614 | 296.2% |
| T and J Farms | $14,825 | $7,851 | -47% |
| Jeffrey D. Walters | $19,996 | $7,606 | -62% |
| Rosella Jenkins | $7,536 | $7,536 | 0% |
| Clint A. Halverson | $29,401 | $6,657 | -77.4% |
| Daniel J. Tripp | $15,983 | $6,010 | -62.4% |
| Brent J. Pederson | $10,725 | $5,795 | -46% |
| Monty L. Danielsen | $9,798 | $5,619 | -42.7% |
| Barry L. Danielsen | $9,798 | $5,520 | -43.7% |
| Douglas Vanderhoof | $49,560 | $5,402 | -89.1% |
| Russell B Rindsig | $14,963 | $5,303 | -64.6% |
| Daniel K. Elliott | $9,824 | $4,912 | -50% |
| Jeannie Berger Drinkwater Revoc. Trust | $4,318 | $4,318 | 0% |
| Duane D. Chambers | $8,016 | $4,088 | -49% |
| Allan L. Lawrence | $12,314 | $4,053 | -67.1% |
| James K. Berger | $2,002 | $4,029 | 101.2% |
| Darrell L Van DE Wynkel | $3,989 | $3,989 | 0% |
| Jerry J. Ullom | $13,813 | $3,981 | -71.2% |
| David K Furchtenicht | $10,882 | $3,866 | -64.5% |
| Sarah L. Schultz | $7,045 | $3,657 | -48.1% |
| Mark A. Knoop | $11,440 | $3,571 | -68.8% |
| Forrest G. Anderson | $8,111 | $3,521 | -56.6% |
| Robert J. Hall | $6,460 | $3,521 | -45.5% |
| Lois A. Stellrecht | $2,204 | $3,274 | 48.5% |
| Trevor D. Thompson | $9,283 | $3,247 | -65% |
| Lee R. Barrett | $5,919 | $3,225 | -45.5% |
| Rolling Hills Beef Farm | $4,573 | $3,136 | -31.4% |
| Larry R. Graber | $3,774 | $2,769 | -26.6% |
| Adam Edward Wabrowetz | $15,888 | $2,615 | -83.5% |
| Paul R Soelle | $5,963 | $2,383 | -60% |
| Danny D. Ullom | $5,534 | $2,199 | -60.3% |
| Edward A. Ness | $27,410 | $2,193 | -92% |
| Donald Lawrence Roberts Jr. | $0 | $2,035 | -- |
| Richard Tims | $2,883 | $1,926 | -33.2% |
| James S. Bernecker | $2,832 | $1,871 | -33.9% |
| Dorothy Vanpykeren | $4,324 | $1,800 | -58.4% |
| Douglas A. Denninger | $14,304 | $1,779 | -87.6% |
| John F. Zehm | $22,545 | $1,652 | -92.7% |
| James G. Biver | $3,785 | $1,578 | -58.3% |
| Heather Clark | $1,396 | $1,396 | 0% |
| Tobin Clark | $1,396 | $1,396 | 0% |
| Richard A. Lawrence Jr. | $6,836 | $1,380 | -79.8% |
| Michael L. Durand | $0 | $1,375 | -- |
| David H. Toll | $4,115 | $1,327 | -67.8% |
| Kyle J. Vanderhoof | $6,117 | $1,288 | -78.9% |
| Joseph Walz | $1,273 | $1,273 | 0% |
| Jeffrey E. Sando | $3,719 | $1,088 | -70.7% |
| Gary R Spexet | $1,769 | $1,043 | -41% |
| William Lee Haynes | $2,057 | $1,036 | -49.6% |
| Thomas N Baker Irrevocable Trust | $0 | $876 | -- |
| Vern Holub | $1,995 | $825 | -58.6% |
| David Bradley Marker | $3,238 | $820 | -74.7% |
| Robert D. Kidder | $1,555 | $798 | -48.7% |
| Chad D. Kidder | $1,549 | $793 | -48.8% |
| Dustin L. Petz | $976 | $754 | -22.7% |
| Steven Mickelson | $28,664 | $720 | -97.5% |
| James E Iveland | $3,661 | $670 | -81.7% |
| Steven M. Mains | $1,399 | $660 | -52.8% |
| Adam D. Kemp | $3,115 | $655 | -79% |
| Rodman McTaggart | $2,717 | $579 | -78.7% |
| Byron L. Mott | $2,585 | $559 | -78.4% |
| Dean P. Barrett | $2,343 | $537 | -77.1% |
| Brad D. Marker | $2,574 | $506 | -80.3% |
| Joshua S. Bush | $671 | $466 | -30.6% |
| Kevin S. Johnson | $2,006 | $463 | -76.9% |
| Karl Sannwald | $2,090 | $430 | -79.4% |
| Robert T. Kemp | $561 | $382 | -31.9% |
| Harold Graber | $3,848 | $337 | -91.2% |
| Mark O. Meister | $0 | $330 | -- |
| Dorothy Jean Lemoine | $2,139 | $326 | -84.8% |
| Monty L. Parker | $1,045 | $286 | -72.6% |
| Levi Meister | $0 | $275 | -- |
| Wayne A. Moore | $765 | $255 | -66.7% |
| Larry R. Hillman | $629 | $202 | -67.9% |
| Rachel M. Swanson | $950 | $200 | -78.9% |
| Ronald W Gormong | $854 | $189 | -77.9% |
| Dale L. Lawrence | $701 | $186 | -73.5% |
| Carrie Irvine | $0 | $165 | -- |
| Dane P. Schuebel | $1,550 | $80 | -94.8% |
| David K. Swan | $0 | $60 | -- |
| Steven S. Degner | $900 | $29 | -96.8% |
| Dale M. Alsum | $414 | $23 | -94.4% |
| Mary Lee Olson | $100 | $18 | -82% |
| Philip John Hedlund | $387 | $15 | -96.1% |
| Kessler Farm, LLC | $85 | $8 | -90.6% |
| Charles W. Cain | $40 | $6 | -85% |
| Scott L. Kunselman | $66 | $4 | -93.9% |
| Jeffrey Pederson | $0 | $2 | -- |
| Denninger Farms | $554 | $0 | -100% |
| Joyce a Sannwald | $152 | $0 | -100% |
| Gary R Spexet | $975 | $0 | -100% |
| Richard Hargrave | $43,009 | $0 | -100% |
| Thomas W. Elliott | $41 | $0 | -100% |
| Yuri Walczak | $1,268 | $0 | -100% |
| Brent J. Edlin | $1,066 | $0 | -100% |
| Swan C. Wennerberg | $93 | $0 | -100% |
| Dean E. Bergquist | $134 | $0 | -100% |
| James O. Perlick | $1,210 | $0 | -100% |
| Jerry Sexton | $83 | $0 | -100% |
| Phil Lindeman | $59 | $0 | -100% |
| Renee E Vanselus | $113 | $0 | -100% |
| Robert J. Smith | $5,647 | $0 | -100% |
| Timothy P Bandoli | $1,980 | $0 | -100% |
| Wayne M. Dahlstrom | $3,900 | $0 | -100% |
| Dale M. Swan | $842 | $0 | -100% |
| David B. Fogerty | $405 | $0 | -100% |
| Emily A. Iverson | $46 | $0 | -100% |
| Eugene A. Ogren | $576 | $0 | -100% |
| Farm Service Agency/Commodity CRE | $19,494 | $0 | -100% |
| Gerald H. Brown | $468 | $0 | -100% |
| Glenn D Leischer | $106 | $0 | -100% |
| Kent Bassett | $1,982 | $0 | -100% |
| Kevin Kronlund, Inc. | $6,070 | $0 | -100% |
| Mckenzie Cranberry, Inc. | $14,270 | $0 | -100% |
| Steven J. Hubin | $2,179 | $0 | -100% |
| Thomas Foss | $920 | $0 | -100% |
| Volpe, Ltd. | $419 | $0 | -100% |
| Total subsidies | $3,794,467 | $1,622,004 | -57.3% |
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