EWG || Farm Subsidy Database

EWG || Farm Subsidy Database:
This shows the top ranking recipients of farm subsidies for 2003
"Rank Recipient* Location Total USDA - Subsidies
2003
1 Riceland Foods Inc Stuttgart, AR 72160 $68,942,419
2 Producers Rice Mill Inc Stuttgart, AR 72160 $51,400,838
3 Farmers Rice Coop Sacramento, CA 95851 $17,914,254
4 Pilgrim's Pride Corporation Pittsburg, TX 75686 $11,401,045
5 Ducks Unlimited Inc Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 $7,078,200
6 Cargill Turkey Products Harrisonburg, VA 22801 $6,693,286
7 Ute Mountain Tribe Towaoc, CO 81334 $4,035,347
8 Dnrc Trust Land Management - Exem Helena, MT 59620 $3,106,805
9 Attebury Grain Co Amarillo, TX 79105 $2,971,143
10 Bureau Of Indian Affairs Horton, KS 66439 $2,655,353
11 Ute Mountain Ute Farm & Ranch Ent Towaoc, CO 81334 $2,606,189
12 Colorado River Indian Tribes Farm Parker, AZ 85344 $2,479,854
13 Dublin Farms Corcoran, CA 93212 $2,442,748
14 Richmond Farming Altheimer, AR 72004 $2,208,672
15 Dale Bone Farms Partnership Nashville, NC 27856 $2,106,825
16 Tyler Farms Helena, AR 72342 $2,102,799
17 Perthshire Farms Gunnison, MS 38746 $2,101,931
18 Phillips Farms Holly Bluff, MS 39088 $2,065,876
19 Catron Farms Helena, AR 72342 $2,025,697
20 Ak-chin Farms Maricopa, AZ 85239 $2,001,025"

1	Riceland Foods Inc	Stuttgart, AR 72160	$68,942,419
2	Producers Rice Mill Inc	Stuttgart, AR 72160	$51,400,838
3	Farmers Rice Coop	Sacramento, CA 95851	$17,914,254
4	Pilgrim's Pride Corporation	Pittsburg, TX 75686	$11,401,045
5	Ducks Unlimited Inc	Rancho Cordova, CA 95670	$7,078,200
6	Cargill Turkey Products	Harrisonburg, VA 22801	$6,693,286
7	Ute Mountain Tribe	Towaoc, CO 81334	$4,035,347
8	Dnrc Trust Land Management - Exem	Helena, MT 59620	$3,106,805
9	Attebury Grain Co	Amarillo, TX 79105	$2,971,143
10	Bureau Of Indian Affairs	Horton, KS 66439	$2,655,353
11	Ute Mountain Ute Farm & Ranch Ent	Towaoc, CO 81334	$2,606,189
12	Colorado River Indian Tribes Farm	Parker, AZ 85344	$2,479,854
13	Dublin Farms	Corcoran, CA 93212	$2,442,748
14	Richmond Farming	Altheimer, AR 72004	$2,208,672
15	Dale Bone Farms Partnership	Nashville, NC 27856	$2,106,825
16	Tyler Farms	Helena, AR 72342	$2,102,799
17	Perthshire Farms	Gunnison, MS 38746	$2,101,931
18	Phillips Farms	Holly Bluff, MS 39088	$2,065,876
19	Catron Farms	Helena, AR 72342	$2,025,697
20	Ak-chin Farms	Maricopa, AZ 85239	$2,001,025

Some comments by number--
1, 2, and 3 are all rice marketing cooperatives--organizations that market rice on behalf of their members and therefore collect some subsidies on their behalf as well. Thus it's misleading to have them at the top. (I assume for whatever reason USDA hasn't given, or EWG hasn't tried to get, the data necessary to break the money down to the member level.
No. 4 Pilgrim's Pride got 99 percent of its money under Avian Influenza Indemnity program.
No. 5 Ducks Unlimited got 99 percent of its money under the Wetland Reserve program.
No. 6 Cargill got 99 percent of its money under the Avian Influenza Indemnity program.
No. 7 Ute Mountain tribe appears to be an Indian tribe, 99 percent of money under 2003 disaster.
No. 8, DNRC is the state of Montana, which retained a lot of public domain land from the 19th century and leases it out. States and some other public institutions have been exempt from the payment limitation in the past.
No. 9 Attebury Farm got most of its money under disaster--Karnal Bunt program.
No.10, BIA, is receiving subsidies on behalf of Indians who own allotment land (dating back to the days when the white man was breaking up reservations, alloting land to Indians with the hope they'd become "civilized". (Farm subsidies is a small part of the money that BIA didn't keep good records of, hence the lawsuit before Judge Sentelle.
No. 11--might be also Indian, see 7.
No. 12 sounds like a tribal entity to me--where checks are written to the tribe, which is then responsible for distributing the money.
No. 12 is cotton
No. 13 Dublin Farms is cotton and rice. (Note-- if you follow down and find its ownership interests it's owned by 17 corporations (all Irish names).
No. 14 is cotton and rice, again with corporations as owners
No. 15 Dale Boone is a newish corporation with individual owners
No. 16 Tyler fArms is cotton and rice with no ownership shown.
No. 17-20 look to be delta cotton and rice farms.