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In 2021, 185 farmers in cities within Dallas County received a total of $1.4 million in 254 farm subsidies, a 55.1% decrease compared to 2020, when the total was $3.1 million in 407 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 Dallas County, Year Over Year
| Farmer | Total Received in 2020 | Total Received in 2021 | % Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| W H Watts & Son | $257,657 | $169,668 | -34.1% |
| Bain McLaughlin | $381,572 | $84,209 | -77.9% |
| GGK Farms, LLC | $71,873 | $57,550 | -19.9% |
| Lanier Logging, Inc. | $0 | $52,875 | -- |
| F & a Transport, LLC | $0 | $51,944 | -- |
| Dallas County Seed Company, Inc. | $0 | $46,505 | -- |
| Bryan McIntyre | $188,176 | $41,340 | -78% |
| Etheredge Cattle Company | $131,571 | $40,135 | -69.5% |
| William Crawford Henry | $61,756 | $37,899 | -38.6% |
| Ralph N. Hobbs | $41,910 | $31,593 | -24.6% |
| K & a Transport, LLC | $0 | $31,259 | -- |
| Schober Cattle Company | $116,838 | $31,232 | -73.3% |
| Owen Yoder | $77,044 | $31,138 | -59.6% |
| Jamie Yeager | $82,931 | $30,416 | -63.3% |
| Charles Callens | $0 | $29,389 | -- |
| John Dale Williamson II | $60,181 | $28,670 | -52.4% |
| Sputtle Trading, LLC | $49,186 | $27,241 | -44.6% |
| Brandon McHugh | $52,745 | $24,996 | -52.6% |
| Joseph E. Moore | $26,537 | $23,937 | -9.8% |
| Terry and Jule Booker Farms | $57,801 | $23,666 | -59.1% |
| Dobbins Cosby | $55,990 | $23,181 | -58.6% |
| Shedric Callens | $0 | $22,283 | -- |
| Emma J. Moore | $21,447 | $21,447 | 0% |
| Bell Place Farms, LLC | $36,728 | $20,198 | -45% |
| Blackbelt Land Works, LLC | $35,482 | $18,366 | -48.2% |
| John Callens | $0 | $17,762 | -- |
| Mike McHugh | $96,679 | $15,138 | -84.3% |
| Double D Trucking, LLC | $0 | $14,100 | -- |
| Gregory G. Kish | $16,506 | $12,890 | -21.9% |
| Jeff Cogle | $60,832 | $12,807 | -78.9% |
| O C B Farm, LLC | $13,807 | $12,164 | -11.9% |
| Barkers Mill, Inc. | $6,771 | $12,044 | 77.9% |
| Whitten Winford Parmer | $46,716 | $11,800 | -74.7% |
| Plummer Cattle & Timber, Ltd. | $37,930 | $11,576 | -69.5% |
| Darrell L. Steward | $22,110 | $11,196 | -49.4% |
| Billy Watts | $24,176 | $11,108 | -54.1% |
| Clariece E Perdue, Estate | $0 | $10,099 | -- |
| Francis T. Middleton Jr. | $36,405 | $9,845 | -73% |
| Country Fresh Markets, Inc. | $0 | $9,282 | -- |
| Mary R Mcmilion | $9,258 | $9,245 | -0.1% |
| Pilcher Land Corporation | $4,985 | $8,644 | 73.4% |
| Steve E. Moore | $54,383 | $8,482 | -84.4% |
| Riggs Land Company, Ltd. | $14,581 | $7,846 | -46.2% |
| Angela Harrelson | $7,758 | $7,758 | 0% |
| Johnny Watts | $19,485 | $7,329 | -62.4% |
| Watts Childrens Trust | $19,174 | $7,096 | -63% |
| William L. Jones Jr. | $24,412 | $6,280 | -74.3% |
| Randy Malone | $788 | $6,161 | 681.9% |
| Davis Trucking, LLC | $0 | $5,992 | -- |
| B. L. Cummings Jr. | $6,407 | $5,716 | -10.8% |
| Sherie R. Sherrer | $5,621 | $5,621 | 0% |
| Tim R. Wood | $5,944 | $4,971 | -16.4% |
| Michael McIntyre | $14,467 | $4,934 | -65.9% |
| Duffy G. Casey | $5,413 | $4,811 | -11.1% |
| John W. Jones Jr. | $5,272 | $4,643 | -11.9% |
| Will Summerlin | $8,914 | $4,584 | -48.6% |
| Mel J. Gilmer Jr. | $0 | $4,558 | -- |
| Larry F. Lewis | $3,829 | $3,782 | -1.2% |
| Ellis McIntyre Jr. | $23,956 | $3,649 | -84.8% |
| Rodney S. Duncan | $20,511 | $3,590 | -82.5% |
| Ken Gresham | $16,423 | $3,586 | -78.2% |
| Doug Gresham | $26,484 | $3,545 | -86.6% |
| Rickman Edgar Williams III | $3,252 | $3,252 | 0% |
| J. P. Jenkins | $4,548 | $3,233 | -28.9% |
| Ben Cosby | $6,118 | $3,181 | -48% |
| Jody Pilcher | $6,178 | $2,878 | -53.4% |
| Rose Marie Godwin | $17,679 | $2,859 | -83.8% |
| Karl Hamilton | $8,020 | $2,639 | -67.1% |
| Caroline H. Anderson | $4,208 | $2,606 | -38.1% |
| Will Cosby | $10,527 | $2,566 | -75.6% |
| Harold Jay Wyatt | $12,086 | $2,562 | -78.8% |
| Fred Friday | $6,358 | $2,327 | -63.4% |
| Elbert Lee Gibbs | $10,164 | $2,283 | -77.5% |
| Booker Family Farms, LLC | $3,617 | $2,204 | -39.1% |
| Felix Richardson Jr. | $5,749 | $2,135 | -62.9% |
| Benjamin Russell Wood Jr. | $9,602 | $2,005 | -79.1% |
| Timothy K. Henderson | $1,999 | $1,999 | 0% |
| Michael T. Adams | $7,832 | $1,910 | -75.6% |
| Booker Farms, Inc. | $0 | $1,851 | -- |
| Jimmy Friday | $8,789 | $1,846 | -79% |
| James A. Brunson | $7,864 | $1,619 | -79.4% |
| Hans A. Pfeiffer | $9,699 | $1,567 | -83.8% |
| William Kenneth Lumpkin | $3,234 | $1,548 | -52.1% |
| James P. McKay Jr. | $1,531 | $1,531 | 0% |
| Mary E. Pilcher | $2,712 | $1,506 | -44.5% |
| John W. Quarles | $3,729 | $1,457 | -60.9% |
| Clete Verhoff | $6,942 | $1,426 | -79.5% |
| Bryan Stevenson | $7,510 | $1,370 | -81.8% |
| Samuel E. Johnson | $7,257 | $1,303 | -82% |
| Barry Lorenzo Allen Sr. | $2,046 | $1,225 | -40.1% |
| Roy McMillan | $4,708 | $1,156 | -75.4% |
| Dorial Pettaway | $2,706 | $1,138 | -57.9% |
| Alise Carmichael | $3,452 | $1,041 | -69.8% |
| Mack D. Sellers | $5,196 | $1,020 | -80.4% |
| Joseph Ruder | $3,135 | $1,019 | -67.5% |
| Randolph Baldwin | $2,871 | $958 | -66.6% |
| Rosie Jemison | $0 | $939 | -- |
| Isiah Hamilton Perry Sr. | $2,706 | $937 | -65.4% |
| Jerome Allen Jr. | $0 | $935 | -- |
| John E. Pilcher | $1,799 | $933 | -48.1% |
| Michael J Fullenwilder | $4,081 | $926 | -77.3% |
| Levi Jackson | $4,706 | $894 | -81% |
| Jessie Alexander Jr. | $5,403 | $836 | -84.5% |
| Abraham Ellis | $2,703 | $794 | -70.6% |
| Edwin F. Young | $3,709 | $786 | -78.8% |
| Spencer Johnson | $3,355 | $779 | -76.8% |
| Emmie Pilcher Jernigan | $1,422 | $753 | -47% |
| Paul Wilkerson | $1,502 | $735 | -51.1% |
| Reid Mcmilion | $1,502 | $735 | -51.1% |
| Herbert L. Blackmon Sr. | $2,767 | $715 | -74.2% |
| Vandiver H. Carter | $1,133 | $713 | -37.1% |
| Jason Douglas Smith | $1,884 | $696 | -63.1% |
| Charles Grant Jr. | $1,848 | $689 | -62.7% |
| William D. Minor Sr. | $3,157 | $686 | -78.3% |
| William F. Cosby Jr. | $0 | $686 | -- |
| Jeffrey Harrison | $0 | $678 | -- |
| Alfred Beal | $5,781 | $656 | -88.7% |
| Earnest L. Tate | $3,828 | $642 | -83.2% |
| Chester L. Chappell | $626 | $626 | 0% |
| Bill Bennett | $2,695 | $612 | -77.3% |
| Blake Willis | $2,211 | $607 | -72.5% |
| Claude Strother Jr. | $2,501 | $601 | -76% |
| Charles T. Cammack Jr. | $1,479 | $597 | -59.6% |
| Danny Phillips | $531 | $591 | 11.3% |
| Anthony Lee Traylor | $948 | $550 | -42% |
| Allen R. Henderson | $0 | $538 | -- |
| Leroy Byrd | $1,320 | $506 | -61.7% |
| Charles B. Tubbs | $1,661 | $487 | -70.7% |
| Adelle C. Wills | $2,420 | $485 | -80% |
| Jimmy Campbell | $1,461 | $481 | -67.1% |
| Colonel Ray Smitherman | $3,181 | $476 | -85% |
| Edwin D. Wilson | $2,211 | $472 | -78.7% |
| Josephine H. Ellis | $1,639 | $467 | -71.5% |
| Robert Jackson | $1,881 | $450 | -76.1% |
| Charles L. Lewis | $1,074 | $449 | -58.2% |
| Johnny Hall | $1,122 | $443 | -60.5% |
| Willie B. Thomas Jr. | $3,127 | $421 | -86.5% |
| David W. Summerlin | $0 | $412 | -- |
| Tyrone Lumpkin | $2,145 | $403 | -81.2% |
| Wesley E. Richey | $3,956 | $374 | -90.5% |
| Cynthia R. Brock | $532 | $360 | -32.3% |
| Joe F. Ivey | $988 | $354 | -64.2% |
| Norman E. Dunkin | $1,705 | $349 | -79.5% |
| Donna Wiltsie | $2,086 | $338 | -83.8% |
| George Wiltsie | $1,229 | $338 | -72.5% |
| Virginia L. Kendrick | $319 | $319 | 0% |
| Philip Wood III | $195 | $319 | 63.6% |
| Herbert Smith | $1,111 | $308 | -72.3% |
| Earnest Hardy | $627 | $297 | -52.6% |
| LCL Limited Partnership | $1,530 | $279 | -81.8% |
| Robert Lee Pope | $1,463 | $270 | -81.5% |
| Brittany Cogle-Wingo | $269 | $269 | 0% |
| Clayton Cogle | $269 | $269 | 0% |
| Robert J. Hardy Sr. | $990 | $259 | -73.8% |
| Eliase Harrell | $2,936 | $246 | -91.6% |
| Erroll T Boglin SR | $2,895 | $242 | -91.6% |
| Charles Lumpkin | $891 | $240 | -73.1% |
| John Lyn Britt | $0 | $231 | -- |
| Carolyn K. Yarbrough | $613 | $225 | -63.3% |
| Tyrell Woods | $3,812 | $221 | -94.2% |
| Margaret W. Brown | $561 | $211 | -62.4% |
| Jean Ellen Sealy | $0 | $210 | -- |
| Bonnie L. Molett | $421 | $205 | -51.3% |
| Sam J. Smitherman Jr. | $0 | $191 | -- |
| Rhuben Ellis | $495 | $187 | -62.2% |
| Eric Sheffield | $396 | $166 | -58.1% |
| Rayfield Brown | $726 | $146 | -79.9% |
| Patty Sexton | $130 | $130 | 0% |
| Lillie Gail Threadgill | $430 | $120 | -72.1% |
| Rena M. Jones | $297 | $114 | -61.6% |
| Lee Arthur Mixson | $198 | $104 | -47.5% |
| Lorenzo Lee Ford | $682 | $104 | -84.8% |
| William P. Swift III | $6 | $102 | 1,600% |
| Churchill Fluker | $289 | $98 | -66.1% |
| Tracey B. Reese | $583 | $93 | -84% |
| Loddie Williamson | $285 | $85 | -70.2% |
| James Harrell Hammonds | $309 | $65 | -79% |
| Lacy W. Kendrick | $148 | $61 | -58.8% |
| Evelyn M. Cox | $0 | $47 | -- |
| Frances C. Henderson | $1,408 | $41 | -97.1% |
| Brenda C. Keith | $0 | $34 | -- |
| Clyde Richardson | $71 | $26 | -63.4% |
| Portia Beatrice Fulford | $38,255 | $20 | -99.9% |
| Beverly Milner | $0 | $12 | -- |
| Bernice Young Johnson | $0 | $6 | -- |
| John M. Higginbotham | $3,685 | $0 | -100% |
| Bertha E. Wyatt | $690 | $0 | -100% |
| Big Mulberry Nursery | $7,625 | $0 | -100% |
| Clarice E. Perdue | $10,099 | $0 | -100% |
| Clyde Newberry | $1,650 | $0 | -100% |
| Deans E Barber III | $2,537 | $0 | -100% |
| Edgar W. Greene Jr. | $406 | $0 | -100% |
| Gibbs Family Inter Vivos Trust | $302 | $0 | -100% |
| Gwendolyn Bender | $3,025 | $0 | -100% |
| John W. Newberry Jr. | $2,750 | $0 | -100% |
| Johnnie E. Alexander | $1,870 | $0 | -100% |
| Joseph Blaze Malone | $9,360 | $0 | -100% |
| Kenneth Morrison | $186 | $0 | -100% |
| Kerry Gibbs | $714 | $0 | -100% |
| Larry D. Justice | $58 | $0 | -100% |
| Lucy Ann Smith | $10 | $0 | -100% |
| Martha R. Malone | $5,353 | $0 | -100% |
| Melester Ford | $935 | $0 | -100% |
| Paul Combs | $4,348 | $0 | -100% |
| Plantation Tree Company | $234,821 | $0 | -100% |
| Sharonda Bender | $5,940 | $0 | -100% |
| Levi M. McCary | $3,575 | $0 | -100% |
| Robert M. Chance | $2,475 | $0 | -100% |
| Total subsidies | $3,132,779 | $1,407,493 | -55.1% |
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