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In 2021, 313 farmers in cities within Marshall County received a total of $1.2 million in 419 farm subsidies, a 65.5% decrease compared to 2020, when the total was $3.4 million in 872 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 |
---|---|---|---|
Francisco Romero | $104,042 | $121,548 | 16.8% |
Nash Family Farms, LLC | $0 | $113,007 | -- |
Dwight Ward | $107,950 | $51,651 | -52.2% |
Victory Farms | $104,893 | $42,689 | -59.3% |
Billy D. Floyd | $53,606 | $42,295 | -21.1% |
Gilmac Dairy | $55,120 | $41,903 | -24% |
Joe Dugan Taylor | $63,954 | $41,734 | -34.7% |
Farm Service Agency/Commodity Credit Corporation | $0 | $39,430 | -- |
Bill E. Gold | $96,486 | $25,655 | -73.4% |
Richard Hopkins | $54,154 | $23,557 | -56.5% |
Charles E. Haskins | $80,270 | $22,064 | -72.5% |
Samuel H Richardson - Richardson's Roost Family He | $0 | $21,403 | -- |
Stephen Lyn Stacey | $59,561 | $20,318 | -65.9% |
Tex Hopkins | $37,980 | $18,721 | -50.7% |
Corey Trout | $21,099 | $17,735 | -15.9% |
Ronnie M. Trout | $20,729 | $17,430 | -15.9% |
William T. Warner | $15,564 | $16,839 | 8.2% |
Charles F. Haskins | $14,415 | $15,760 | 9.3% |
Ronald Stephens | $36,221 | $14,710 | -59.4% |
Dereck Shannon Layne | $26,135 | $12,638 | -51.6% |
Danny B. Wood | $10,618 | $12,263 | 15.5% |
Maury D. Wood | $10,618 | $12,263 | 15.5% |
William Topper | $42,523 | $10,786 | -74.6% |
Thomas Allen Gentry | $27,179 | $10,132 | -62.7% |
Nathan Johnson | $20,044 | $9,789 | -51.2% |
Thomas H. Tindell | $22,535 | $9,778 | -56.6% |
Kevin Vanhooser - Vanhooser D. Dairy | $0 | $9,379 | -- |
Dennis W. Wentzel | $37,992 | $9,222 | -75.7% |
Beasleyland Dairy | $28,136 | $8,266 | -70.6% |
Richard A. Pickle Jr. | $19,580 | $7,948 | -59.4% |
Sam Smith | $47,326 | $7,851 | -83.4% |
Lorene H. Blackburn | $0 | $7,011 | -- |
Ira Todd | $36,796 | $6,885 | -81.3% |
Joe Westmoreland | $11,768 | $6,690 | -43.2% |
Brandy W. McCormick | $0 | $6,633 | -- |
Pamela Shinn | $13,042 | $6,472 | -50.4% |
James B. Gentry | $14,966 | $6,109 | -59.2% |
Tony White Farm | $32,685 | $5,500 | -83.2% |
Eugene Harwell | $25,723 | $5,352 | -79.2% |
Roger B. Upton | $46,918 | $5,204 | -88.9% |
Clayborne Knox Glenn | $40,136 | $5,149 | -87.2% |
Robert Kimbrell Jr. | $1,062 | $4,528 | 326.4% |
Camuel Harmon JR | $24,127 | $4,414 | -81.7% |
Nathan Todd | $17,642 | $4,281 | -75.7% |
Adam Ryan Orr | $14,216 | $4,174 | -70.6% |
Lee Ann Duvall | $8,310 | $4,140 | -50.2% |
Ricky M. Smith | $14,311 | $3,638 | -74.6% |
Michael B. Fitzgerald | $6,233 | $3,616 | -42% |
Bernard Dino Ortega | $12,386 | $3,473 | -72% |
Ray Wakefield | $19,385 | $3,361 | -82.7% |
Tommy Warden | $16,675 | $3,269 | -80.4% |
Glenn Woodard | $9,127 | $3,248 | -64.4% |
Lavoy Ledford | $8,709 | $3,167 | -63.6% |
Foster S. Caneer | $7,656 | $3,153 | -58.8% |
Greg Harris | $14,458 | $3,139 | -78.3% |
Samuel K. Taylor | $14,400 | $3,006 | -79.1% |
Kerry Yoes | $4,991 | $2,990 | -40.1% |
Greg Giles | $13,441 | $2,939 | -78.1% |
Doug Doyle | $9,590 | $2,810 | -70.7% |
Charles Wayne Pettes | $14,605 | $2,797 | -80.8% |
Sam Moses | $11,458 | $2,788 | -75.7% |
Tommy Roden | $13,423 | $2,711 | -79.8% |
Ferrell Shields | $7,392 | $2,680 | -63.7% |
Tommy Crawford | $12,578 | $2,656 | -78.9% |
Frank Kilpatrick | $4,590 | $2,581 | -43.8% |
Coffey Farms | $9,299 | $2,542 | -72.7% |
William Edwin Taylor | $10,478 | $2,512 | -76% |
Will S. L. Wilson | $9,013 | $2,489 | -72.4% |
William D. London | $17,043 | $2,456 | -85.6% |
Wendell K. Phifer | $8,574 | $2,277 | -73.4% |
Leon M. Oliver | $17,385 | $2,250 | -87.1% |
Joe Boyd Liggett | $9,632 | $2,224 | -76.9% |
Charles A. Batten | $7,595 | $2,218 | -70.8% |
Full Circle Ranch, LLC | $10,311 | $2,120 | -79.4% |
Joseph Warner | $12,415 | $2,108 | -83% |
Donald Crutcher | $8,755 | $2,058 | -76.5% |
Ken W. Jordan | $7,975 | $2,031 | -74.5% |
Michael W. Smith | $11,450 | $1,998 | -82.6% |
Foster Ingram | $19,057 | $1,990 | -89.6% |
Wm P. Warner | $8,932 | $1,974 | -77.9% |
Timmy Terry | $9,283 | $1,943 | -79.1% |
Randall B. Wilson | $7,000 | $1,923 | -72.5% |
Felicia M. Beasley-Hillard | $8,998 | $1,887 | -79% |
Jeff McClendon | $7,480 | $1,884 | -74.8% |
Bart Cheatham | $9,460 | $1,852 | -80.4% |
Scott Gillum | $7,700 | $1,851 | -76% |
Douglas Michael Giles Jr. | $6,140 | $1,838 | -70.1% |
Robert C. Avent | $19,010 | $1,834 | -90.4% |
Joe Westmoreland Real Estate Investment, LLC | $1,830 | $1,830 | 0% |
Charles Blackwell | $5,501 | $1,778 | -67.7% |
Mary Hickman | $0 | $1,766 | -- |
Tommy Roberson | $5,834 | $1,755 | -69.9% |
Jonathan Tacker Allen | $28,180 | $1,753 | -93.8% |
Edward E. Harber | $4,866 | $1,750 | -64% |
Jason Travis Edwards | $8,614 | $1,746 | -79.7% |
Kelly R. Stewart | $7,348 | $1,732 | -76.4% |
Jerry Hunt | $7,468 | $1,724 | -76.9% |
Mack Allen Jordan | $1,700 | $1,700 | 0% |
Kenneth Carr | $5,588 | $1,661 | -70.3% |
Patrick B. Jordan | $8,866 | $1,609 | -81.9% |
Logan Mark Davis | $8,966 | $1,603 | -82.1% |
Patrick Warner | $11,580 | $1,590 | -86.3% |
Steve Darnell | $6,478 | $1,572 | -75.7% |
Trevor D. Whorton | $7,734 | $1,526 | -80.3% |
Jamie L. Gentry | $5,320 | $1,518 | -71.5% |
Jason Farler | $0 | $1,514 | -- |
Barry N. Hooten | $9,637 | $1,475 | -84.7% |
Michael J. Govern | $3,201 | $1,453 | -54.6% |
Chady Johns | $5,368 | $1,423 | -73.5% |
Virgil Beasley Jr. - Black and White Farm | $0 | $1,423 | -- |
Clint Jason Pittenger | $7,837 | $1,390 | -82.3% |
Thomas B. Upton | $6,952 | $1,377 | -80.2% |
Terry Fuller | $5,170 | $1,356 | -73.8% |
Bledsoe Bros | $5,269 | $1,338 | -74.6% |
Randall Tindell | $6,195 | $1,326 | -78.6% |
Betty Farler | $5,654 | $1,320 | -76.7% |
Jeff Haynes | $7,404 | $1,303 | -82.4% |
Elwanda Owen | $0 | $1,303 | -- |
Kenneth Hopkins | $4,818 | $1,282 | -73.4% |
Marlin Finley | $8,864 | $1,259 | -85.8% |
Delbert T. Lowe | $3,168 | $1,256 | -60.4% |
Jerry Don Adams | $7,037 | $1,242 | -82.4% |
Brian Jay Ladd | $8,142 | $1,241 | -84.8% |
Pete W. Hardesty | $1,706 | $1,221 | -28.4% |
Roy B. Goldman | $8,668 | $1,210 | -86% |
Rex A. Brothers | $5,577 | $1,176 | -78.9% |
Burgess F. Guinn | $7,578 | $1,158 | -84.7% |
June Fuller | $6,969 | $1,135 | -83.7% |
Gregg C. Beeson | $5,113 | $1,115 | -78.2% |
Ben Porterfield | $4,972 | $1,096 | -78% |
Kevin David Warren | $2,002 | $1,092 | -45.5% |
W. W. Dick III | $1,090 | $1,090 | 0% |
Bob Cathey III | $7,211 | $1,076 | -85.1% |
Joseph R. Goldman | $10,872 | $1,073 | -90.1% |
Willie B. Conger | $6,215 | $1,072 | -82.8% |
Jimmy R. Martin | $5,049 | $1,060 | -79% |
Matthew Mulliniks | $4,917 | $1,060 | -78.4% |
William Jeffery Shaw | $6,281 | $1,055 | -83.2% |
Jerry Wayne Gentry | $4,806 | $1,032 | -78.5% |
Terry J. Savage | $2,904 | $1,007 | -65.3% |
James D. Kieffer | $12,740 | $1,000 | -92.2% |
Vernon Pagel Jr. | $17,862 | $992 | -94.4% |
Carol Landry | $6,284 | $984 | -84.3% |
Margaret M. Laflamme | $4,856 | $959 | -80.3% |
Jennifer Spray | $5,671 | $949 | -83.3% |
Edward Waldron | $3,366 | $937 | -72.2% |
Richard D. Black | $3,993 | $934 | -76.6% |
Joshua B. Wakefield | $3,806 | $918 | -75.9% |
Grady Osborne | $4,246 | $914 | -78.5% |
James H. Bingham Jr. | $1,038 | $902 | -13.1% |
Roy L. Ladd Jr. | $4,818 | $864 | -82.1% |
Nancy L. Taylor | $4,669 | $863 | -81.5% |
William D. Beattie | $4,433 | $862 | -80.6% |
Daniel C. Hardy | $3,993 | $862 | -78.4% |
Max D. Todd | $17,981 | $860 | -95.2% |
Harry Layne Jr. | $7,148 | $859 | -88% |
Ron L. Patterson | $6,487 | $859 | -86.8% |
Leatherwood Farm, LLC | $10,382 | $850 | -91.8% |
Andrew Kitt Giles | $3,970 | $846 | -78.7% |
Curtis Denton | $7,708 | $822 | -89.3% |
Darryl Odonnell | $1,100 | $821 | -25.4% |
Myron Wolaver Jr. | $2,387 | $821 | -65.6% |
Dewayne Hobby | $2,464 | $819 | -66.8% |
Larry Brown Holley | $3,091 | $818 | -73.5% |
Kenneth Stacey | $2,867 | $817 | -71.5% |
Jacob Morgan Kelley | $3,322 | $804 | -75.8% |
Phil James Luckett | $2,926 | $789 | -73% |
Michael W. Banner | $3,785 | $772 | -79.6% |
David Hunter | $2,726 | $770 | -71.8% |
Richard Hargrove | $4,246 | $762 | -82.1% |
Mark McNair | $4,444 | $761 | -82.9% |
Jeff Sharpe | $3,464 | $736 | -78.8% |
James A. Jarrell | $3,509 | $730 | -79.2% |
Douglas Mike Giles Sr. | $2,712 | $729 | -73.1% |
Kenneth R. Lamb | $2,431 | $723 | -70.3% |
Torey Dale Kelley | $3,157 | $720 | -77.2% |
W. C. Sharpe | $2,888 | $712 | -75.3% |
Jody Sullivan | $2,541 | $709 | -72.1% |
Doris L. Moore | $1,378 | $706 | -48.8% |
Jonathan M. Douglas | $1,243 | $693 | -44.2% |
James Travis Clark | $3,963 | $681 | -82.8% |
Lena Green | $0 | $660 | -- |
Pablo Villa Hernandez | $2,992 | $659 | -78% |
David Wayne Wright | $2,057 | $656 | -68.1% |
James R. Whitsett | $5,399 | $642 | -88.1% |
Joel M. Allen | $4,995 | $624 | -87.5% |
Bobby Bills | $2,332 | $616 | -73.6% |
Jerry H. Harber | $3,519 | $607 | -82.8% |
Ray Cook | $3,102 | $599 | -80.7% |
Kerry W. Davis | $4,836 | $598 | -87.6% |
Morgan Thomas | $0 | $597 | -- |
Beverly Williams Lewis | $4,996 | $594 | -88.1% |
James H. Wolaver | $4,494 | $592 | -86.8% |
James David Crunk | $6,049 | $590 | -90.2% |
Karen V. Hall | $2,866 | $583 | -79.7% |
Janice Carothers Williams | $2,739 | $578 | -78.9% |
Harold Cox | $1,452 | $576 | -60.3% |
Billy Chunn | $1,551 | $575 | -62.9% |
Aubrey Duncan | $2,640 | $561 | -78.8% |
David Brian Johns | $0 | $555 | -- |
Kevin M. Davis | $4,481 | $554 | -87.6% |
Mark Tapley | $2,420 | $553 | -77.1% |
James R. Canady | $3,253 | $543 | -83.3% |
Leonard F. Beasley Jr. | $1,373 | $540 | -60.7% |
Jon Finley | $3,816 | $529 | -86.1% |
Clyde Lamb | $2,566 | $526 | -79.5% |
Dustin Brown | $1,870 | $522 | -72.1% |
Jeffrey Neill | $3,222 | $520 | -83.9% |
Charles E. Cozart | $2,365 | $516 | -78.2% |
William Frank Brannon | $1,723 | $507 | -70.6% |
Red Cedar Farms, LLC | $0 | $500 | -- |
Alex Rodriquez Crutcher | $1,608 | $500 | -68.9% |
James Howard Hopkins | $1,303 | $500 | -61.6% |
John B. Looney | $2,167 | $497 | -77.1% |
Jon P. Newcomb | $2,255 | $493 | -78.1% |
Chris Boatright | $1,749 | $490 | -72% |
John Daniel Allen | $1,419 | $483 | -66% |
Terry Dunnivant | $3,220 | $483 | -85% |
Timothy Bryan Fuller | $2,543 | $460 | -81.9% |
Robert A. Simpson Jr. | $2,178 | $453 | -79.2% |
Ann Bowers | $443 | $443 | 0% |
Teresa S. Wilson | $2,035 | $440 | -78.4% |
Patsy J. Floyd | $1,749 | $436 | -75.1% |
Japheth D Jackson | $2,699 | $436 | -83.8% |
Corinna Bowers | $430 | $430 | 0% |
Kevin Lee | $2,361 | $422 | -82.1% |
Douglas Hayes | $2,446 | $419 | -82.9% |
Joseph Baxter | $1,704 | $415 | -75.6% |
Jamie M. Wright | $1,881 | $403 | -78.6% |
Will Turner | $1,232 | $402 | -67.4% |
Frank Don Osteen Jr. | $2,257 | $378 | -83.3% |
Glenn B. Liggett | $2,368 | $370 | -84.4% |
Bryan Clark Wolaver | $1,661 | $353 | -78.7% |
Tracy Osborne | $2,425 | $345 | -85.8% |
Jimmy Warf | $1,846 | $318 | -82.8% |
William R. Clark | $723 | $318 | -56% |
Tommy Lawwell | $2,216 | $316 | -85.7% |
Bryan W. Connor | $1,056 | $308 | -70.8% |
Terry G. Gipson | $609 | $307 | -49.6% |
Mary L. Ralston | $135 | $293 | 117% |
Geneva Stegall | $1,615 | $284 | -82.4% |
Henry Dowlen | $1,364 | $284 | -79.2% |
Gary Boatright | $748 | $282 | -62.3% |
Jessie T. Whaley | $2,015 | $280 | -86.1% |
Charles L. Andrews | $726 | $277 | -61.8% |
Margraret H Jones | $979 | $270 | -72.4% |
Sarah K. Spidel | $1,085 | $269 | -75.2% |
Jeff L. Poarch | $2,529 | $260 | -89.7% |
Delores Johnson | $0 | $256 | -- |
Kendell B. Lee | $1,706 | $256 | -85% |
Jerry Harris | $2,672 | $254 | -90.5% |
David L. Carter | $946 | $252 | -73.4% |
Wayne Aldridge | $2,543 | $252 | -90.1% |
Napolion Lewis | $1,224 | $246 | -79.9% |
Tony Marshall Burgess | $5,169 | $242 | -95.3% |
William H. Rogers | $1,558 | $242 | -84.5% |
Ricky Haston | $534 | $227 | -57.5% |
Ronnie D. Blackwell | $858 | $225 | -73.8% |
Keith Bills | $657 | $217 | -67% |
Sharon Marie Lamb | $448 | $200 | -55.4% |
Tiffany Taylor Hopkins | $528 | $194 | -63.3% |
Steven M. Huggins | $1,365 | $190 | -86.1% |
Chris E. Johns | $2,376 | $189 | -92% |
Ben Jordan | $1,027 | $187 | -81.8% |
Billy Wayne Edwards Jr. | $1,472 | $182 | -87.6% |
Helen Goodman | $0 | $178 | -- |
Patrick J. Hankins | $583 | $178 | -69.5% |
Richard B. King | $356 | $174 | -51.1% |
Leonard Kirk | $727 | $174 | -76.1% |
Tommy Whaley | $649 | $173 | -73.3% |
David B. Warner | $0 | $168 | -- |
Tara L. Tucker | $1,221 | $166 | -86.4% |
Donald Wade Smith | $396 | $166 | -58.1% |
Billy Howell | $3,706 | $160 | -95.7% |
Telisa Hearnsberger | $707 | $158 | -77.7% |
James E. Wilson | $2,244 | $154 | -93.1% |
Leslie Finley | $0 | $139 | -- |
Briana Strasser | $566 | $138 | -75.6% |
Michael Ray Puckett | $627 | $137 | -78.1% |
Mark Duke | $307 | $129 | -58% |
Charles R. Daughrity | $252 | $123 | -51.2% |
Jill Giardi Thomas | $280 | $123 | -56.1% |
Andrew Kevin McGehee | $1,388 | $121 | -91.3% |
Larry Mackrella | $304 | $118 | -61.2% |
Louise Phillips | $517 | $114 | -77.9% |
Tavye Caldwell | $0 | $113 | -- |
Douglas M. Williams | $1,545 | $113 | -92.7% |
Daryl T. Duff | $613 | $112 | -81.7% |
James Michael Wright | $671 | $100 | -85.1% |
Alexis B. Wright | $418 | $98 | -76.6% |
Jerry A. Greer Sr. | $223 | $98 | -56.1% |
Marty Gassaway | $198 | $93 | -53% |
Aaron Hovis | $939 | $91 | -90.3% |
David L. Kirby Jr. | $396 | $90 | -77.3% |
Shannon Cook | $165 | $86 | -47.9% |
Teki Lyons | $330 | $86 | -73.9% |
Pamela S. Wilson | $70 | $70 | 0% |
Coleman T. Crockett | $1,116 | $64 | -94.3% |
Bobby L. McDaniel | $297 | $63 | -78.8% |
Carol M. Williams | $0 | $61 | -- |
Georgina McKenzie | $0 | $61 | -- |
Margaret J. Landa | $124 | $58 | -53.2% |
David N. Trout | $202 | $56 | -72.3% |
Darrell Phifer | $252 | $56 | -77.8% |
Terry Blackwell | $209 | $44 | -78.9% |
Kevin R. Brown | $82 | $40 | -51.2% |
Dorlene Burgess | $0 | $37 | -- |
Wayne McNeese | $281 | $37 | -86.8% |
Jodie Olive | $3,262 | $17 | -99.5% |
Faye P. Fancher | $88 | $12 | -86.4% |
Payge Sprague | $48 | $8 | -83.3% |
Tracy G. Batte | $18 | $8 | -55.6% |
Shelley Outland | $0 | $2 | -- |
Daniel Edwin Womble | $1,912 | $0 | -100% |
Danielle Kieffer | $820 | $0 | -100% |
Franklin Boyd Caldwell | $319 | $0 | -100% |
Jill Pigg | $602 | $0 | -100% |
Neal Blackburn | $864 | $0 | -100% |
Randy Gentry | $1,137 | $0 | -100% |
Virgil Beasley Jr. - Black and WH | $7,571 | $0 | -100% |
Arthur E. Wentzel | $4,499 | $0 | -100% |
Cornell King | $521 | $0 | -100% |
Hale Hawkins | $21,634 | $0 | -100% |
Jason Farler | $6,787 | $0 | -100% |
Kevin Vanhooser - Vanhooser D. Dai | $60,137 | $0 | -100% |
Phillip Reese | $1,320 | $0 | -100% |
Richard Upton | $207 | $0 | -100% |
Dave B. Coffey Jr. | $374 | $0 | -100% |
Bert Smith IV | $111,639 | $0 | -100% |
Billy Coble | $5,014 | $0 | -100% |
Bobby Gentry | $114 | $0 | -100% |
Brian Patrick Garrett | $605 | $0 | -100% |
Carl Edwin Anderson | $2,475 | $0 | -100% |
Charles N. Hill | $3,465 | $0 | -100% |
Chasity Lynn Corriveau | $696 | $0 | -100% |
Daniel J. Pickle | $836 | $0 | -100% |
Farm Service Agency/Commodity CRE | $32,338 | $0 | -100% |
Forgies Fruit Farm, LLC | $12,600 | $0 | -100% |
Hunter Watkins | $605 | $0 | -100% |
Jana Walker | $1,375 | $0 | -100% |
Jeff Boyce | $642 | $0 | -100% |
Marion Owen | $6,259 | $0 | -100% |
Marvin Woodside | $796 | $0 | -100% |
Matt Collins | $186 | $0 | -100% |
Maxwell Hanson | $714 | $0 | -100% |
Nani-Waiata Koromete | $9,755 | $0 | -100% |
Palmer Farms, LLC | $8,613 | $0 | -100% |
Ray Green | $3,209 | $0 | -100% |
Rowdy Livestock, LLC | $388,361 | $0 | -100% |
Roy Garrett | $825 | $0 | -100% |
Sandra Kay Howard | $1,870 | $0 | -100% |
Sherry S. Hunter | $136 | $0 | -100% |
Taylor Gentry | $220 | $0 | -100% |
Terry L. Parrish | $385 | $0 | -100% |
Tommy E. Stegall | $1,485 | $0 | -100% |
Tracy Stewart | $1,247 | $0 | -100% |
Vanessa Warf | $66 | $0 | -100% |
Total subsidies | $3,374,710 | $1,163,103 | -65.5% |