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In 2021, 148 farmers in cities within Grant County received a total of $175,884 in 189 farm subsidies, a 79.7% decrease compared to 2020, when the total was $864,430 in 429 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keith A. Hillenbrand | $22,355 | $11,920 | -46.7% |
| Dean Colson | $21,895 | $7,872 | -64% |
| Bryan Eldridge | $87,969 | $7,683 | -91.3% |
| Jason R. Mullins | $24,794 | $6,632 | -73.3% |
| Lonnie Roy | $30,900 | $6,281 | -79.7% |
| Thomas G. Pettit | $14,983 | $4,191 | -72% |
| Mark R. Kinsey | $9,720 | $4,089 | -57.9% |
| Terry Richardson | $22,618 | $4,016 | -82.2% |
| Donald C. Soper | $19,030 | $3,917 | -79.4% |
| Norbert David List | $15,860 | $3,339 | -78.9% |
| Jim Evans | $14,392 | $3,159 | -78.1% |
| Kathryn Osborne-Howell | $13,325 | $3,152 | -76.3% |
| Gannon C. Pettit | $10,825 | $2,767 | -74.4% |
| Rickey Hopperton | $7,621 | $2,736 | -64.1% |
| Tyler Webster | $13,479 | $2,582 | -80.8% |
| Jerod Mulberry | $4,359 | $2,442 | -44% |
| Timothy G. Beach | $10,952 | $2,418 | -77.9% |
| Bo Beach | $9,553 | $2,403 | -74.8% |
| Roger Poe | $6,581 | $2,390 | -63.7% |
| Matthew Bingham | $11,109 | $2,350 | -78.8% |
| Timothy C. Gripshover Jr. | $5,989 | $2,183 | -63.5% |
| Duane A. Chaney | $8,844 | $2,182 | -75.3% |
| Hutch-N-Son Farms, Inc. | $28,967 | $2,074 | -92.8% |
| Curtis L. Tien | $1,975 | $1,975 | 0% |
| Wm Bruce Carnes | $10,414 | $1,968 | -81.1% |
| Carl E. Simpson | $7,821 | $1,937 | -75.2% |
| Nicholas Grant Johnson | $6,729 | $1,794 | -73.3% |
| Robert C. Turley | $8,261 | $1,780 | -78.5% |
| Mark Chance | $5,966 | $1,750 | -70.7% |
| Gary F. Turner | $4,191 | $1,719 | -59% |
| Ray Allen Porter | $6,655 | $1,615 | -75.7% |
| Donald D. Gordon | $7,461 | $1,586 | -78.7% |
| Robert L. Kunkel | $10,625 | $1,546 | -85.4% |
| Courtney Brothers Farms | $6,819 | $1,533 | -77.5% |
| Timothy Beach II | $7,102 | $1,529 | -78.5% |
| Steve Adams | $6,589 | $1,435 | -78.2% |
| James E. Cammack | $11,614 | $1,422 | -87.8% |
| Donald M. Fortner | $6,809 | $1,373 | -79.8% |
| Frances Jean Perkins | $3,432 | $1,356 | -60.5% |
| Wayne Sponcil | $6,292 | $1,351 | -78.5% |
| Charles Readnour | $4,574 | $1,319 | -71.2% |
| Jimmy Dan Hedger | $6,282 | $1,263 | -79.9% |
| Jerry Sponcil | $5,929 | $1,250 | -78.9% |
| Jonathan Alexander | $15,610 | $1,199 | -92.3% |
| Justin Sebastian | $4,136 | $1,198 | -71% |
| Gary Hopperton | $2,390 | $1,165 | -51.3% |
| Jeff Simpson | $3,921 | $1,150 | -70.7% |
| Larry Spillman | $6,596 | $1,144 | -82.7% |
| Mason Wilson Bowling | $3,659 | $1,138 | -68.9% |
| Teddy A. Workman | $5,016 | $1,063 | -78.8% |
| James C. Ammerman | $8,614 | $1,056 | -87.7% |
| Gayle Reed | $3,729 | $1,028 | -72.4% |
| Isaac Swango Jr. | $4,367 | $934 | -78.6% |
| John P. Stepp | $4,310 | $905 | -79% |
| Craig D. Pennington | $3,465 | $868 | -74.9% |
| Billy G. Points | $3,146 | $863 | -72.6% |
| Kenneth Chandler | $3,506 | $862 | -75.4% |
| Gregory M. Nichols | $18,017 | $821 | -95.4% |
| Brandon L. Williams | $2,354 | $816 | -65.3% |
| David Sechrest | $3,619 | $814 | -77.5% |
| Matthew Dale Williams | $2,266 | $791 | -65.1% |
| Larry Oneill | $3,102 | $778 | -74.9% |
| Todd Henage | $3,036 | $762 | -74.9% |
| James Michael Smith | $2,968 | $755 | -74.6% |
| Dale Alexander | $4,614 | $738 | -84% |
| Alex M. Woods | $6,078 | $728 | -88% |
| James G. Barlow | $2,365 | $705 | -70.2% |
| Edwin Simpson | $2,939 | $696 | -76.3% |
| John Douglas Ammerman | $4,123 | $679 | -83.5% |
| Tisha C. Woodyard | $3,124 | $678 | -78.3% |
| Thomas M. Clemons | $2,676 | $649 | -75.7% |
| Kenneth R. Ruby | $2,585 | $647 | -75% |
| Timothy Shaffer | $2,783 | $615 | -77.9% |
| Randy Middleton | $2,893 | $609 | -78.9% |
| Kevin Dale Beach | $4,762 | $606 | -87.3% |
| Craig Simpson | $3,515 | $592 | -83.2% |
| Barry N. King | $4,425 | $571 | -87.1% |
| Paul Gordon Harp | $1,892 | $560 | -70.4% |
| Patti Fogle | $3,697 | $549 | -85.2% |
| Dwayne Gray | $4,759 | $533 | -88.8% |
| Robert Dillingham | $2,255 | $526 | -76.7% |
| Bobby Howe | $3,880 | $525 | -86.5% |
| Ty A. Beach | $2,255 | $522 | -76.9% |
| Christopher V. Back | $3,821 | $520 | -86.4% |
| Vicky L. Tungate | $2,057 | $515 | -75% |
| Myke Crouch | $2,839 | $515 | -81.9% |
| James Brown | $1,683 | $500 | -70.3% |
| Jonathan Barrett | $2,464 | $500 | -79.7% |
| Roy L. Gray | $6,705 | $497 | -92.6% |
| Paul A. Boden | $1,802 | $495 | -72.5% |
| David E. King | $2,013 | $482 | -76.1% |
| Jonathan Mulberry | $1,701 | $481 | -71.7% |
| Howard Brewer Jr. | $1,100 | $466 | -57.6% |
| Charles B. Delph | $4,778 | $464 | -90.3% |
| A. L. Martin | $1,825 | $457 | -75% |
| Dudley J. Gullion | $2,148 | $452 | -79% |
| Jerry M. Beach | $1,804 | $452 | -74.9% |
| Paul L. Elliott | $1,760 | $431 | -75.5% |
| Allen D. Cammack | $3,071 | $428 | -86.1% |
| Dennis Bowling | $2,594 | $428 | -83.5% |
| Orman Glass | $4,029 | $428 | -89.4% |
| It's About Time Farm, LLC | $1,980 | $425 | -78.5% |
| Wade Allen Cammack | $4,295 | $420 | -90.2% |
| Kevin James Burke | $3,807 | $415 | -89.1% |
| Chad Durr | $1,848 | $402 | -78.2% |
| Wayne Beil II | $1,584 | $387 | -75.6% |
| Kevin Joseph Stone | $1,628 | $362 | -77.8% |
| Mark Shepperd | $1,749 | $350 | -80% |
| Charles J. Ammer | $1,907 | $338 | -82.3% |
| Gregory A. Webster | $1,557 | $336 | -78.4% |
| Ronald Beach | $1,727 | $332 | -80.8% |
| Kenwood Soper | $1,518 | $326 | -78.5% |
| Dennis Webster | $1,626 | $318 | -80.4% |
| Robert Tungate | $1,045 | $316 | -69.8% |
| Duncan Family Farms, LLC | $1,012 | $297 | -70.7% |
| Shayne A. Martin | $3,316 | $287 | -91.3% |
| Austin Johnson | $1,474 | $284 | -80.7% |
| Alex James | $1,281 | $283 | -77.9% |
| Wesley Beach | $2,085 | $283 | -86.4% |
| John D. Robertson | $1,243 | $270 | -78.3% |
| Thurman Kinman | $891 | $269 | -69.8% |
| Kevin Willoughby | $1,408 | $264 | -81.3% |
| Dennis Poor | $1,890 | $242 | -87.2% |
| Jerry Stone | $1,210 | $242 | -80% |
| Jerry W. Lower | $528 | $241 | -54.4% |
| Warren L. Smith | $1,144 | $239 | -79.1% |
| Christopher Conrad | $1,060 | $233 | -78% |
| Paul Mann | $7,468 | $228 | -96.9% |
| Gerald W. Bowling | $931 | $225 | -75.8% |
| Tim Fox | $990 | $218 | -78% |
| Jeffrey W. Stone | $1,001 | $211 | -78.9% |
| Jerry Hyden | $1,224 | $201 | -83.6% |
| Amber Aberle | $1,526 | $194 | -87.3% |
| Marilyn James | $1,095 | $193 | -82.4% |
| Ken Childress | $616 | $178 | -71.1% |
| Joseph D. Scott | $1,204 | $173 | -85.6% |
| Ernie Johnson | $2,244 | $170 | -92.4% |
| James L. Purcell | $889 | $165 | -81.4% |
| Randy Mann | $991 | $159 | -84% |
| Jeremy Huff | $671 | $156 | -76.8% |
| Aimee Joann Nienaber | $308 | $104 | -66.2% |
| Linda Cull | $0 | $96 | -- |
| Mary Shaffer | $214 | $93 | -56.5% |
| Mavis E. Simpson | $392 | $90 | -77% |
| James A. Readnour | $1,384 | $80 | -94.2% |
| Jim Gifford | $1,474 | $76 | -94.8% |
| Phyllis J. Merryman | $0 | $68 | -- |
| Bobby F. Schadler | $135 | $17 | -87.4% |
| Daniel Martin | $377 | $0 | -100% |
| Dwight Harvey | $330 | $0 | -100% |
| Jared Kenner | $330 | $0 | -100% |
| Jesse Laycock | $113 | $0 | -100% |
| Marion Adams | $34 | $0 | -100% |
| Mark E. Hargett | $2,376 | $0 | -100% |
| Paul Meyer | $63 | $0 | -100% |
| Amanda Beach | $50 | $0 | -100% |
| Billy Nichols | $3,860 | $0 | -100% |
| Carol J Sponcil | $71 | $0 | -100% |
| Charles Ellis Lowe | $660 | $0 | -100% |
| Debra Colson | $4,346 | $0 | -100% |
| Devorah Herbst | $495 | $0 | -100% |
| Greg Jump | $2,420 | $0 | -100% |
| John B. Dawalt | $836 | $0 | -100% |
| Joseph R. Gruen | $235 | $0 | -100% |
| Karen Cooper | $1,151 | $0 | -100% |
| Kenneth W. Kells | $475 | $0 | -100% |
| Lee Ann Brooks | $990 | $0 | -100% |
| Loren Becker | $21 | $0 | -100% |
| Lynda Dawalt | $55 | $0 | -100% |
| Michael Harvey | $880 | $0 | -100% |
| Paula Cull Hendy | $495 | $0 | -100% |
| Perry McClure | $126 | $0 | -100% |
| Roger D. Edmondson | $330 | $0 | -100% |
| Teresa L. Miller | $440 | $0 | -100% |
| Total subsidies | $864,430 | $175,884 | -79.7% |
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