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In 2021, 179 farmers in cities within Henry County received a total of $938,992 in 332 farm subsidies, a 68.7% decrease compared to 2020, when the total was $3 million in 653 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.
Farmers and Their Subsidies in Cities Associated with Henry County, Year Over Year
| Farmer | Total Received in 2020 | Total Received in 2021 | % Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robbie L. Ethington | $308,140 | $108,775 | -64.7% |
| Worth & Dee Ellis Farms, LLC | $311,154 | $90,369 | -71% |
| Dwight D. Raymer | $99,968 | $45,609 | -54.4% |
| Howard a Rowlett Family Limited P | $28,585 | $45,397 | 58.8% |
| Michael W. Roberts | $211,726 | $34,877 | -83.5% |
| Robbie A. James | $48,031 | $33,161 | -31% |
| Shawn R Oesterritter | $69,980 | $31,395 | -55.1% |
| Ralph L. Bryant | $38,830 | $24,724 | -36.3% |
| Raymer Farms, LLC | $77,319 | $24,143 | -68.8% |
| Edwin A. Bryant | $38,945 | $20,467 | -47.4% |
| Lisa H. Gibson | $13,400 | $20,004 | 49.3% |
| Joe E. Lafferty | $28,526 | $18,864 | -33.9% |
| Robert R. Bush II | $46,575 | $18,258 | -60.8% |
| Terry A. Rowlett | $56,441 | $17,531 | -68.9% |
| Ryan Chisholm | $22,354 | $16,653 | -25.5% |
| Doug King | $21,374 | $16,316 | -23.7% |
| Robert H. Foree | $64,789 | $15,745 | -75.7% |
| Eugene Evridge | $21,622 | $13,831 | -36% |
| John F. Allison | $48,805 | $13,163 | -73% |
| Daniel Wright | $60,766 | $11,720 | -80.7% |
| Tim Caldwell | $37,043 | $11,635 | -68.6% |
| Nathan J. Adams | $25,125 | $11,372 | -54.7% |
| Micheal L. Clifford II | $49,304 | $10,685 | -78.3% |
| Michael A. McKee | $57,020 | $10,255 | -82% |
| 3 Stone Farms, LLC | $65,382 | $9,616 | -85.3% |
| Edward G. Foree | $63,234 | $9,003 | -85.8% |
| Jacob Walters | $17,552 | $7,180 | -59.1% |
| Danny Fitzgerald | $54,257 | $7,018 | -87.1% |
| Douglas Scott Bates | $11,898 | $7,010 | -41.1% |
| Durrett Farm, LLC | $26,635 | $6,476 | -75.7% |
| Jericho Acres Dairy, LLC | $21,061 | $6,444 | -69.4% |
| John David Yount | $15,001 | $6,228 | -58.5% |
| Anthony D. Whaley | $19,173 | $5,495 | -71.3% |
| Robert Reed Bush | $17,427 | $5,344 | -69.3% |
| Bryants Dairy Farm | $41,565 | $5,313 | -87.2% |
| Seth M. Bryant | $21,522 | $5,213 | -75.8% |
| Elsrun, LLC | $5,023 | $5,183 | 3.2% |
| Shaun Woods | $10,387 | $5,156 | -50.4% |
| Shaun Woods | $10,387 | $5,156 | -50.4% |
| Taylor-Maid, LLC | $13,369 | $4,894 | -63.4% |
| Ann B. Griffin | $5,707 | $4,846 | -15.1% |
| Roger G. Taylor Jr. | $17,121 | $4,509 | -73.7% |
| Paul J. Keith III | $18,329 | $4,455 | -75.7% |
| Phillip A. Powell | $18,840 | $4,315 | -77.1% |
| Zane O. Peyton | $0 | $4,290 | -- |
| Daniel Taylor | $9,927 | $4,239 | -57.3% |
| Nathan Roberts | $6,893 | $4,175 | -39.4% |
| Susan M. Coleman | $4,830 | $4,098 | -15.2% |
| Mark Osborne | $16,214 | $3,985 | -75.4% |
| Myron Smith | $5,592 | $3,906 | -30.2% |
| Ben E. Nutter II | $15,734 | $3,883 | -75.3% |
| Reality Farms, LLC | $21,288 | $3,658 | -82.8% |
| Justin Roberts | $26,122 | $3,351 | -87.2% |
| Christopher C. Fergerson | $4,531 | $3,339 | -26.3% |
| Chester A. Stivers Jr. | $14,221 | $3,326 | -76.6% |
| David C. And Phyllis H. Mcguire, LLC | $6,086 | $3,094 | -49.2% |
| Anthony Crabb | $31,254 | $2,970 | -90.5% |
| Ernest D. Welch | $10,390 | $2,924 | -71.9% |
| Stivers Farm, LLC | $15,398 | $2,775 | -82% |
| Gary R. Stivers | $11,794 | $2,688 | -77.2% |
| Nancy Ellis-Raisor | $2,210 | $2,581 | 16.8% |
| Stucker Farms, LLLP | $12,586 | $2,557 | -79.7% |
| Jessie C. Woods | $14,180 | $2,234 | -84.2% |
| Jerry G. Powell | $5,900 | $2,203 | -62.7% |
| Maurice Korthaus | $9,104 | $2,151 | -76.4% |
| Raymond T. Arvin | $11,940 | $2,129 | -82.2% |
| Benny D. Hardesty | $14,435 | $2,071 | -85.7% |
| James C. Mobley | $14,113 | $1,929 | -86.3% |
| Maynard Stetten, M.D. | $6,147 | $1,925 | -68.7% |
| Robert L. Mullins | $1,617 | $1,888 | 16.8% |
| Steven B. Nelson | $13,205 | $1,844 | -86% |
| David Douglas | $9,588 | $1,772 | -81.5% |
| Melvin G. Mobley Jr. | $7,002 | $1,745 | -75.1% |
| Anthony Mahoney | $2,062 | $1,722 | -16.5% |
| Anthony Mahoney | $2,062 | $1,722 | -16.5% |
| David K. Brown | $12,633 | $1,651 | -86.9% |
| David McGuire | $6,582 | $1,635 | -75.2% |
| Will Farm, LLC | $2,300 | $1,600 | -30.4% |
| Melanie J Defler | $6,019 | $1,563 | -74% |
| Roger Conn | $5,615 | $1,454 | -74.1% |
| Larry T. Congleton | $6,292 | $1,449 | -77% |
| Donna A. Duncan | $4,822 | $1,402 | -70.9% |
| Charles A. Smith | $4,884 | $1,355 | -72.3% |
| J & R Partnership | $7,633 | $1,298 | -83% |
| Lloyd Bradley Gray | $4,774 | $1,262 | -73.6% |
| Ralph W. Crouch | $5,171 | $1,256 | -75.7% |
| John E. Smith | $5,802 | $1,256 | -78.4% |
| Joseph O. Mobley | $16,147 | $1,178 | -92.7% |
| William G. Geiger | $3,004 | $1,160 | -61.4% |
| Robin Banta M. Fergerson | $1,124 | $1,124 | 0% |
| Richard L. Vonnahme | $5,984 | $1,092 | -81.8% |
| David Leon Creech | $5,172 | $1,080 | -79.1% |
| John L. Fischer III | $7,695 | $1,052 | -86.3% |
| Lois D. Hensley | $5,350 | $1,038 | -80.6% |
| Hugh R. McBurney | $15,114 | $1,021 | -93.2% |
| Jason Fischer | $7,489 | $1,019 | -86.4% |
| J. T. Stinson | $8,113 | $1,010 | -87.6% |
| Joshua E. Jones | $1,874 | $1,009 | -46.2% |
| Joseph A. Tingle | $16,140 | $1,001 | -93.8% |
| Roland Jeffries | $5,505 | $986 | -82.1% |
| Charles Adams | $3,157 | $948 | -70% |
| Donnie R. Leach | $9,478 | $946 | -90% |
| Kelsey Anne Evans | $3,868 | $942 | -75.6% |
| Steven K. Jeffries | $5,812 | $896 | -84.6% |
| Joseph Reid Moore | $3,597 | $895 | -75.1% |
| Robert Bradley Hargrove | $3,113 | $888 | -71.5% |
| William R. Wilson | $4,158 | $887 | -78.7% |
| Stanley Jones | $3,883 | $872 | -77.5% |
| Nemanja Stamenkovic | $2,496 | $856 | -65.7% |
| Brad W Roberts Farm, LLC | $806 | $853 | 5.8% |
| Earl Vaughn | $4,287 | $844 | -80.3% |
| Darius W. Louden | $3,108 | $822 | -73.6% |
| Frankie Welsh | $6,907 | $790 | -88.6% |
| Kevin L. Kemper | $540 | $728 | 34.8% |
| Michael Payton | $3,727 | $727 | -80.5% |
| MRS Jean Foree | $2,019 | $705 | -65.1% |
| Terry Heightchew | $3,157 | $702 | -77.8% |
| Rankley Farm, Inc. | $4,637 | $680 | -85.3% |
| Jerry Rankin Jr. | $3,102 | $675 | -78.2% |
| Amanda Smith | $4,422 | $675 | -84.7% |
| James Michael Ray | $3,509 | $673 | -80.8% |
| Matthew J. Linton | $2,145 | $669 | -68.8% |
| James R. Mullins | $1,584 | $633 | -60% |
| Kenneth Schmidt | $3,059 | $627 | -79.5% |
| Callaway Farm PTNSP | $1,709 | $626 | -63.4% |
| Mr. Douglas Scott McCoun | $2,816 | $608 | -78.4% |
| William E. Potts Jr. | $6,057 | $605 | -90% |
| Charles D. Russell | $2,640 | $569 | -78.4% |
| Ernest Allen Doll | $2,486 | $550 | -77.9% |
| Jeanette M. Souers | $0 | $550 | -- |
| Worth & Dee Ellis Farms | $2,486 | $548 | -78% |
| Michael Chism | $1,628 | $539 | -66.9% |
| Stephen R. Davie | $1,621 | $530 | -67.3% |
| Stephen R. Greenwell | $4,476 | $516 | -88.5% |
| Marshall T. Ray | $2,299 | $506 | -78% |
| Chad E. White | $2,600 | $497 | -80.9% |
| Bradley Morgan | $1,991 | $494 | -75.2% |
| Oldham Farm, LLC | $491 | $491 | 0% |
| Martha Morgan | $1,859 | $486 | -73.9% |
| Michael a Loaring | $2,332 | $478 | -79.5% |
| Long Family Trust | $3,295 | $467 | -85.8% |
| Brett D Waford | $1,970 | $464 | -76.4% |
| Joseph Louis Fischer | $2,459 | $452 | -81.6% |
| Sarah Hamilton | $1,705 | $407 | -76.1% |
| John Keith Fitzgerald | $300 | $400 | 33.3% |
| Jerry L. Brent | $599 | $380 | -36.6% |
| Tyler Duncan Workman | $1,519 | $380 | -75% |
| Nacona Jeffries | $1,727 | $377 | -78.2% |
| Brandon C. Beckley | $957 | $367 | -61.7% |
| Nancy Heightchew | $1,872 | $362 | -80.7% |
| William E. Potts | $2,632 | $347 | -86.8% |
| Jaclyn N. Crosby | $1,422 | $345 | -75.7% |
| Ken Heightchew | $966 | $345 | -64.3% |
| Shayna Brooke Gibson | $1,320 | $320 | -75.8% |
| Chad Campbell | $1,841 | $308 | -83.3% |
| Paul D. Baxter | $1,503 | $302 | -79.9% |
| Pryor Croxton | $0 | $293 | -- |
| David E. Orr | $1,562 | $284 | -81.8% |
| Shirley Orr | $1,562 | $284 | -81.8% |
| James McClain Jr. | $561 | $277 | -50.6% |
| Robert Cameron Dyer | $1,430 | $263 | -81.6% |
| Mason Brothers Partnership | $510 | $232 | -54.5% |
| Lloyd I. Roberts | $1,928 | $232 | -88% |
| Betsy J. Moore | $561 | $222 | -60.4% |
| Byron Glass | $216 | $220 | 1.9% |
| Matthew James Mobley | $935 | $208 | -77.8% |
| Jerry Durrett | $0 | $183 | -- |
| Garry Baxter | $605 | $162 | -73.2% |
| Justin Castle Finch | $846 | $150 | -82.3% |
| Nicholas Kyle Hope | $572 | $140 | -75.5% |
| Sarah Grace Mobley | $506 | $90 | -82.2% |
| James H. Brammell | $880 | $70 | -92% |
| Warren Adcock Jr. | $1,091 | $60 | -94.5% |
| Robert L. Ethington | $716 | $43 | -94% |
| Tamara K. Dowden | $0 | $31 | -- |
| Alice H. Spickard | $426 | $30 | -93% |
| Joseph Keith Brown | $172 | $17 | -90.1% |
| Earl Thomas Pyles | $0 | $14 | -- |
| Mary Sandra Chisholm | $0 | $10 | -- |
| Billy Lee Grigsby | $2,968 | $0 | -100% |
| Caleb Fiechter | $3,527 | $0 | -100% |
| David C. Graber | $5,657 | $0 | -100% |
| David K. Noe | $1,525 | $0 | -100% |
| Donald C. Clark | $125 | $0 | -100% |
| Gary Moore | $2,752 | $0 | -100% |
| James R. Tingle | $396 | $0 | -100% |
| Joe L. Foree | $175 | $0 | -100% |
| Norman Andrew Baumgartner | $851 | $0 | -100% |
| Russell Joseph Monroe | $11,790 | $0 | -100% |
| Steven White | $1,018 | $0 | -100% |
| Walter Breeden | $1,420 | $0 | -100% |
| Andrew Sharp | $1,705 | $0 | -100% |
| Bradley S. Lyons | $866 | $0 | -100% |
| Donald W. Dowden | $5,104 | $0 | -100% |
| Edward Alvin Tingle | $3,959 | $0 | -100% |
| Louise Stivers | $2,729 | $0 | -100% |
| Neil Hall Stivers II | $12,414 | $0 | -100% |
| Swallowland Farm, LLC | $35 | $0 | -100% |
| Ted A. Chisholm | $4,089 | $0 | -100% |
| Tom Thurman | $1,445 | $0 | -100% |
| Mason Brothers PTNSHP | $1,044 | $0 | -100% |
| Walter Douglas Gibbs | $1,375 | $0 | -100% |
| Catherine M. Riley | $573 | $0 | -100% |
| Deborah A. Gish | $1,114 | $0 | -100% |
| Kimberly Alicia Coates-Smith | $1,265 | $0 | -100% |
| Kimie Sue Jewell | $1,980 | $0 | -100% |
| Susan L. Clifford | $273 | $0 | -100% |
| Timothy L. Tingle | $4,890 | $0 | -100% |
| Total subsidies | $2,999,647 | $938,992 | -68.7% |
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