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In 2021, 133 farmers in cities within Pocahontas County received a total of $693,639 in 166 farm subsidies, a 19.7% decrease compared to 2020, when the total was $863,609 in 350 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| A & a Trucking, LLC | $0 | $52,875 | -- |
| Johnston Logging/Trucking, Inc. | $0 | $52,875 | -- |
| First Fork Timber, LLC. | $0 | $52,875 | -- |
| Philip M. Propst - P&B Trucking & Timber | $0 | $52,875 | -- |
| Walter a Starks - S & S Enterprises | $0 | $52,875 | -- |
| L & JW Trucking, LLC | $0 | $52,875 | -- |
| Little Levels Lumber Company, LLC | $0 | $52,875 | -- |
| Deputy's Logging | $0 | $42,385 | -- |
| Chris Taylor Timber, LLC. | $0 | $39,802 | -- |
| K & S Logging, LLC | $0 | $37,862 | -- |
| Taylor Logging, LLP | $0 | $20,887 | -- |
| Little Levels Farm, LLC | $75,742 | $11,313 | -85.1% |
| James E. Rose | $33,683 | $9,651 | -71.3% |
| Matthew Workman | $34,301 | $9,307 | -72.9% |
| Lawrence T. Workman | $24,524 | $7,210 | -70.6% |
| Jack C. Wilkins | $39,682 | $7,108 | -82.1% |
| Ryan Scott Taylor | $22,678 | $6,964 | -69.3% |
| Andrew P. Alderman | $18,108 | $5,179 | -71.4% |
| Floyd F. Davis Jr. | $12,895 | $4,295 | -66.7% |
| Jarrell L. Clifton | $14,070 | $4,006 | -71.5% |
| Keith E. Beverage II | $14,211 | $4,003 | -71.8% |
| Alice R. Irvine | $15,048 | $3,226 | -78.6% |
| Jonathan M. Wilkins | $26,340 | $3,077 | -88.3% |
| Alfred L. Dilley | $11,160 | $2,947 | -73.6% |
| Lakeview Angus Farm | $7,215 | $2,916 | -59.6% |
| Steven R. Moore | $10,641 | $2,849 | -73.2% |
| Donald E. McNeel | $15,443 | $2,709 | -82.5% |
| Cole B. Beverage | $19,299 | $2,614 | -86.5% |
| David S. Morrison | $330 | $2,599 | 687.6% |
| Mark Dilley | $10,747 | $2,418 | -77.5% |
| Eric J. Rose | $8,802 | $2,370 | -73.1% |
| Henry L. Grimes | $10,461 | $2,213 | -78.8% |
| Ricky L. Shinaberry | $12,331 | $2,204 | -82.1% |
| Mark Grimes | $10,428 | $2,196 | -78.9% |
| Thomas W. Vanreenen | $5,270 | $2,193 | -58.4% |
| Point of View Farm, Inc. | $2,043 | $2,043 | 0% |
| David Michael Callison | $4,641 | $2,031 | -56.2% |
| Robert Mothes | $9,075 | $2,016 | -77.8% |
| John A. Shinaberry | $12,155 | $1,993 | -83.6% |
| Dustin E. Simmons | $8,113 | $1,904 | -76.5% |
| Benjamin McNeel | $10,644 | $1,826 | -82.8% |
| Jamie C. Walker | $6,233 | $1,741 | -72.1% |
| Bertel J. Schou | $6,481 | $1,689 | -73.9% |
| Simmons Farm, LLC | $4,101 | $1,633 | -60.2% |
| Reta M. Rose | $12,178 | $1,600 | -86.9% |
| Robert Y. Sharp | $8,470 | $1,580 | -81.3% |
| Edward L. Riley | $10,782 | $1,548 | -85.6% |
| James Y. Pritchard II | $15,351 | $1,469 | -90.4% |
| Evan E. Rose | $8,960 | $1,460 | -83.7% |
| Andrew M. Friel | $5,801 | $1,440 | -75.2% |
| Jesse A. Groseclose | $7,427 | $1,428 | -80.8% |
| Emory M. Warner | $6,171 | $1,418 | -77% |
| Richard F. Mann | $5,687 | $1,383 | -75.7% |
| Gerry M. Mosier | $1,714 | $1,364 | -20.4% |
| Cripple Hollow | $4,675 | $1,348 | -71.2% |
| Gary M. Cutlip | $5,874 | $1,305 | -77.8% |
| Eleanor G. Gay | $766 | $1,251 | 63.3% |
| Arnold Shinaberry | $5,907 | $1,226 | -79.2% |
| Norman A. Walker | $5,219 | $1,225 | -76.5% |
| Samuel C Mcpaters | $5,412 | $1,212 | -77.6% |
| Shawn Russell Taylor | $5,775 | $1,202 | -79.2% |
| Larry Sharp | $13,661 | $1,194 | -91.3% |
| Wilma Warner | $5,914 | $1,135 | -80.8% |
| Ernest H. Friel | $4,419 | $1,122 | -74.6% |
| Randall Johnson | $4,444 | $1,106 | -75.1% |
| Max A. Gum | $3,490 | $1,056 | -69.7% |
| Wesley D. Price | $4,589 | $1,052 | -77.1% |
| Abram Rittenhouse | $6,933 | $1,035 | -85.1% |
| Kenneth H. Varner | $4,323 | $1,016 | -76.5% |
| Gregory Hamons | $4,427 | $995 | -77.5% |
| Henry Burr | $3,979 | $925 | -76.8% |
| Claude Sharp Jr. | $2,244 | $886 | -60.5% |
| David Lynn Vandevender | $4,558 | $862 | -81.1% |
| Silas L. Sattler | $5,903 | $791 | -86.6% |
| Clark H. Kinnison | $8,879 | $777 | -91.2% |
| Tim H. Wade | $4,010 | $767 | -80.9% |
| Robert M. McNabb Jr. | $8,623 | $752 | -91.3% |
| David Armstrong | $3,707 | $748 | -79.8% |
| June A. Taylor | $2,739 | $740 | -73% |
| Ray Sharp | $2,882 | $726 | -74.8% |
| Travis Taylor | $3,811 | $714 | -81.3% |
| James Lynn Pennington | $3,124 | $689 | -77.9% |
| Emery G. Grimes | $2,827 | $671 | -76.3% |
| James L. McCoy | $3,300 | $658 | -80.1% |
| Spencer Cole McCoy | $5,987 | $658 | -89% |
| Donald W. Lovelace | $2,211 | $651 | -70.6% |
| Steven William Beard | $6,790 | $637 | -90.6% |
| Joseph W. Riley | $8,200 | $620 | -92.4% |
| James A. Buzzard | $2,607 | $595 | -77.2% |
| Thomas M. Moore Jr. | $2,431 | $589 | -75.8% |
| Justin M. Wagner | $3,899 | $588 | -84.9% |
| Gearold Cassell | $2,574 | $576 | -77.6% |
| Todd L. Gibson | $1,471 | $560 | -61.9% |
| Gladys K. Mann | $2,028 | $523 | -74.2% |
| Samuel M. Arbogast | $2,882 | $498 | -82.7% |
| Tony Garretson | $0 | $486 | -- |
| Kurt Morgan Mothes | $2,732 | $484 | -82.3% |
| Timothy G. Hevener | $2,046 | $472 | -76.9% |
| Elwood Galford | $1,782 | $464 | -74% |
| Joshua D. Shinaberry | $1,947 | $451 | -76.8% |
| Aaron L. Pugh | $2,655 | $440 | -83.4% |
| Thunder Valley Cattle & Trading, LLC | $0 | $436 | -- |
| Christopher T. Friel | $1,355 | $408 | -69.9% |
| Michael Murphy | $1,210 | $380 | -68.6% |
| W Lake Vaughan | $528 | $378 | -28.4% |
| Pamela D. Sharpes | $1,749 | $370 | -78.8% |
| Nathan Daniel Simmons | $2,969 | $366 | -87.7% |
| Don N. Kiner Jr. | $2,025 | $312 | -84.6% |
| Larry C. Hefner | $1,276 | $308 | -75.9% |
| Jeffrey P. Barlow | $1,474 | $302 | -79.5% |
| Kurtis H. Kiner | $1,890 | $294 | -84.4% |
| Doshia Webb | $2,529 | $291 | -88.5% |
| Dennis E. Vaughan | $1,353 | $290 | -78.6% |
| Phillip M. McMillion | $1,965 | $277 | -85.9% |
| Timothy W. Vanreenen | $3,245 | $259 | -92% |
| Dustin Edward Robinson | $997 | $250 | -74.9% |
| Morgan McComb | $7,166 | $239 | -96.7% |
| Noah Pugh | $968 | $231 | -76.1% |
| Wayne A. Cassell | $561 | $211 | -62.4% |
| Larry R. Dean | $1,486 | $191 | -87.1% |
| Darrell R. Jordan | $495 | $187 | -62.2% |
| Jennifer Nicole Rose | $188 | $185 | -1.6% |
| William C. Vandevender | $894 | $163 | -81.8% |
| Edward Workman | $968 | $114 | -88.2% |
| Richard Logan Mann | $553 | $110 | -80.1% |
| Allen K. Sisler | $1,115 | $90 | -91.9% |
| Gary T. Rose | $396 | $90 | -77.3% |
| Ethel Patsy G. McNabb | $0 | $70 | -- |
| Gary Galford | $2,245 | $69 | -96.9% |
| Debbie L. Sharp | $358 | $42 | -88.3% |
| David Jordan | $791 | $26 | -96.7% |
| James R. Calhoun | $384 | $21 | -94.5% |
| Barbara B. Boggs | $30 | $7 | -76.7% |
| Ronald Plaugher | $880 | $0 | -100% |
| David R Jonese | $34 | $0 | -100% |
| Charles William Lewis IV | $453 | $0 | -100% |
| Daniel F. Daley | $2,356 | $0 | -100% |
| James L. McCoy Jr. | $224 | $0 | -100% |
| Joel S. Callison | $415 | $0 | -100% |
| Justin A. Taylor | $120 | $0 | -100% |
| Kirk E. Walton | $2,030 | $0 | -100% |
| Michael Callison | $4,973 | $0 | -100% |
| Shannon Hanley | $1,771 | $0 | -100% |
| Stella L. Callison | $2,158 | $0 | -100% |
| Terry W. Amick | $247 | $0 | -100% |
| Jack M. Gay | $485 | $0 | -100% |
| Jeffrey W. Baxter | $144 | $0 | -100% |
| Jonathan Parker | $330 | $0 | -100% |
| Pleasant Valley Farms | $154 | $0 | -100% |
| Ronald Roy Sharp | $276 | $0 | -100% |
| Steven Saffel | $3,060 | $0 | -100% |
| Teresa Lynn Nottingham | $110 | $0 | -100% |
| Thunder Valley Cattle & Trading L | $2,134 | $0 | -100% |
| Total subsidies | $863,609 | $693,639 | -19.7% |
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