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In 2021, 206 farmers in cities within Gordon County received a total of $1.4 million in 260 farm subsidies, a 39.1% decrease compared to 2020, when the total was $2.3 million in 456 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 Gordon County, Year Over Year
| Farmer | Total Received in 2020 | Total Received in 2021 | % Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moores Seed & Grain Farms, Inc. | $284,244 | $173,028 | -39.1% |
| Stacy Paul Hunt | $36,648 | $144,220 | 293.5% |
| University of GA | $94,494 | $75,790 | -19.8% |
| James Gilbert Hunt | $0 | $71,546 | -- |
| L & D Nguyen Poultry Farm, LLC | $0 | $53,932 | -- |
| Miranda-Hayes Farm, LLC | $0 | $51,978 | -- |
| George Milton Stewart | $40,377 | $47,824 | 18.4% |
| Jody Sullivan | $0 | $40,396 | -- |
| Rak Farms, LLC | $0 | $40,231 | -- |
| Nick Douglas Dodd | $2,904 | $36,333 | 1,151.1% |
| Danny Mason | $15,129 | $30,619 | 102.4% |
| Rowdy Chix, Inc. | $0 | $29,619 | -- |
| Big Country Poultry Farm, LLC | $0 | $29,568 | -- |
| James W. Hobgood | $95,651 | $27,372 | -71.4% |
| Huyen Tran Thi Lam | $0 | $24,544 | -- |
| Larry Scott Bone | $2,673 | $21,373 | 699.6% |
| Do Poultry Farm, LLC | $0 | $20,964 | -- |
| Pond River Land Company, LLC | $0 | $20,654 | -- |
| Nathan Rodney McElrath | $0 | $19,867 | -- |
| Khuong Hong Nguyen | $0 | $16,797 | -- |
| Ronald L. Hunt | $32,479 | $16,083 | -50.5% |
| Larry Thomason | $56,022 | $13,932 | -75.1% |
| JB & Lian Farm, LLC | $0 | $13,905 | -- |
| Michael D. Williams | $22,496 | $13,475 | -40.1% |
| Robert a Degraan | $45,572 | $13,014 | -71.4% |
| Gabriel J. Jones | $54,791 | $12,984 | -76.3% |
| Robert Devin Oesterle | $0 | $12,276 | -- |
| Joseph Nguyen Farm, LLC | $2,145 | $11,781 | 449.2% |
| Richard Lee Weaver | $14,860 | $10,167 | -31.6% |
| Tina Nguyen | $3,234 | $8,998 | 178.2% |
| Ray Lamar Brendel | $0 | $8,715 | -- |
| Jamey L. Hunt | $17,561 | $8,044 | -54.2% |
| Rupert B. Grogan | $36,332 | $7,279 | -80% |
| Roy L. Davis | $20,134 | $7,086 | -64.8% |
| James H. Hyde | $34,945 | $6,517 | -81.4% |
| Circle W Ranch, LLC | $0 | $6,119 | -- |
| Phun Ceu | $0 | $5,486 | -- |
| Bobby Miller | $23,826 | $5,394 | -77.4% |
| Steve Bass | $31,647 | $5,214 | -83.5% |
| Champ H. Kelly | $18,868 | $5,184 | -72.5% |
| Riverview Farms, LLC | $17,644 | $5,180 | -70.6% |
| Kurt F. Kelly | $16,423 | $4,847 | -70.5% |
| Pamela Gee Rhinehart | $12,612 | $4,719 | -62.6% |
| Brian Methvin Sitten | $0 | $4,693 | -- |
| John Wesley Mitchell | $5,117 | $4,559 | -10.9% |
| Burt Jeffords | $24,341 | $4,470 | -81.6% |
| Charles Long | $602 | $4,332 | 619.6% |
| Stephen M. Smith | $32,205 | $4,156 | -87.1% |
| Regan M. Stone | $22,408 | $4,008 | -82.1% |
| Mike Bramlett | $20,434 | $3,948 | -80.7% |
| Brandon S. Gibson | $0 | $3,650 | -- |
| Terry E. Bunch | $19,386 | $3,442 | -82.2% |
| Ted Fuller | $13,351 | $3,417 | -74.4% |
| Rigo Orozco | $3,075 | $3,386 | 10.1% |
| Amakanata Farms, LLC | $17,935 | $3,298 | -81.6% |
| Janis G. Boone | $14,029 | $3,243 | -76.9% |
| Jerry Ellis | $16,978 | $3,028 | -82.2% |
| Jake Taylor Nix | $6,762 | $3,002 | -55.6% |
| Henry Grady Goble Residual Trust | $8,481 | $2,948 | -65.2% |
| Annette Stephens | $0 | $2,780 | -- |
| Connor Joseph Stewart | $2,013 | $2,680 | 33.1% |
| Robert Lewis Arnold | $13,201 | $2,676 | -79.7% |
| Brian Holbert | $4,633 | $2,534 | -45.3% |
| Jon Michael Mastrangelo | $0 | $2,530 | -- |
| Robert James Gilbert | $2,360 | $2,360 | 0% |
| Jerry Stafford | $16,733 | $2,305 | -86.2% |
| Tommie J. Stone | $5,020 | $2,250 | -55.2% |
| Mike Pharr | $23,785 | $2,214 | -90.7% |
| Cody Henderson | $11,006 | $2,185 | -80.1% |
| John D. Holbert | $9,571 | $2,173 | -77.3% |
| Jonathan S. Smith | $10,731 | $2,133 | -80.1% |
| Joshua Dan Powell | $10,769 | $2,129 | -80.2% |
| Rupert Matthew Grogan | $10,274 | $2,129 | -79.3% |
| Robert W. Hurd | $9,382 | $2,109 | -77.5% |
| Edmond M. Holland | $11,171 | $2,005 | -82.1% |
| William W. Carr | $10,206 | $1,998 | -80.4% |
| Delilah Baxter | $3,201 | $1,933 | -39.6% |
| Ryan Weaver | $6,226 | $1,932 | -69% |
| Patsy E. Craig | $10,299 | $1,927 | -81.3% |
| Donna Padgett | $6,859 | $1,858 | -72.9% |
| Johnny Bradley Scott | $9,140 | $1,786 | -80.5% |
| James Rewis | $8,811 | $1,752 | -80.1% |
| Keene Murphy | $3,475 | $1,690 | -51.4% |
| William H. Butler Jr. | $7,782 | $1,679 | -78.4% |
| Claude Douglas Bramlett | $6,055 | $1,626 | -73.1% |
| James W. Sitton | $3,531 | $1,579 | -55.3% |
| Robert L. Garland | $6,301 | $1,578 | -75% |
| Larry Quinn | $6,480 | $1,570 | -75.8% |
| Winston D. Williams | $9,313 | $1,552 | -83.3% |
| David Powers | $1,599 | $1,528 | -4.4% |
| Austen Lane Miller | $0 | $1,527 | -- |
| Clyde Garland | $5,258 | $1,513 | -71.2% |
| Tina Jackson | $0 | $1,485 | -- |
| Alicia W. Gammon | $0 | $1,451 | -- |
| Calhoun Ranch Supply, LLC | $15,176 | $1,415 | -90.7% |
| Paul Banks Crump | $3,216 | $1,414 | -56% |
| David Sheriff | $4,389 | $1,391 | -68.3% |
| Barry J. Nix | $4,833 | $1,328 | -72.5% |
| Danny Phillips | $7,249 | $1,316 | -81.8% |
| Gerry Weaver | $9,146 | $1,294 | -85.9% |
| C. L. Weaver | $5,925 | $1,266 | -78.6% |
| Charles M. Taylor | $7,227 | $1,251 | -82.7% |
| Kevin Crook | $5,016 | $1,185 | -76.4% |
| Matthew S. Hughey | $7,882 | $1,173 | -85.1% |
| John Richard Bowen | $4,802 | $1,162 | -75.8% |
| Sherri Wright Moore | $3,414 | $1,159 | -66.1% |
| Brian Edward Quinn | $5,586 | $1,108 | -80.2% |
| Brian Conley Worley | $5,841 | $1,101 | -81.2% |
| Michael Wigington | $12,289 | $1,030 | -91.6% |
| Lewis Alexander Miller | $3,344 | $1,018 | -69.6% |
| Steve Yancey | $4,378 | $958 | -78.1% |
| Cecil E. Young | $8,136 | $952 | -88.3% |
| Joseph Ryan Simpson | $297 | $949 | 219.5% |
| Milton L. White | $4,532 | $949 | -79.1% |
| Phillip B. Gibson | $5,203 | $924 | -82.2% |
| Mike H. Ingle | $0 | $909 | -- |
| Charles Randy Jackson | $4,250 | $846 | -80.1% |
| Priscilla Owings Cronon | $4,597 | $845 | -81.6% |
| Greg Free | $4,009 | $844 | -78.9% |
| David L. Thomas | $3,410 | $830 | -75.7% |
| Gary Bowman | $3,069 | $822 | -73.2% |
| Ronald Alan Chandler | $4,322 | $794 | -81.6% |
| Nathan Serritt | $5,489 | $779 | -85.8% |
| Larriann Dixon | $5,628 | $779 | -86.2% |
| Henry C. Hodgkins | $4,347 | $775 | -82.2% |
| David Gibson | $2,926 | $762 | -74% |
| Steven Blaine Wright | $3,438 | $754 | -78.1% |
| Barry A. McEntire | $1,716 | $743 | -56.7% |
| William Keith Gibson | $2,157 | $730 | -66.2% |
| Brooklyn James Stiefel | $3,949 | $723 | -81.7% |
| Phillip Michael Reynolds | $4,748 | $701 | -85.2% |
| Shirley M. Rogers | $1,683 | $675 | -59.9% |
| Carl Edward Loudermilk | $4,024 | $668 | -83.4% |
| Yvonne Moss | $0 | $660 | -- |
| Kevin R. Walraven | $3,289 | $648 | -80.3% |
| Allen Byars | $1,287 | $646 | -49.8% |
| Donald C. Kinman Jr. | $1,827 | $644 | -64.8% |
| Jamey Lee Waters | $3,342 | $636 | -81% |
| Spencer Brown | $1,683 | $634 | -62.3% |
| Michael Dinning | $3,212 | $630 | -80.4% |
| Terry Bruce Grisham | $2,233 | $621 | -72.2% |
| Andy Walker | $1,788 | $613 | -65.7% |
| Terry G. Ross | $3,112 | $606 | -80.5% |
| Joe Darby | $3,194 | $601 | -81.2% |
| William P. Dillard | $2,937 | $599 | -79.6% |
| Cynthia Strickland | $3,538 | $596 | -83.2% |
| Curtis Glenn Terry | $1,453 | $588 | -59.5% |
| Jeff Champion | $2,211 | $571 | -74.2% |
| Marcus W. Purdy | $1,914 | $569 | -70.3% |
| Monty Blake Garland | $1,661 | $552 | -66.8% |
| Zachary Lamar Sims | $3,866 | $552 | -85.7% |
| Mark Floyd Carroll | $378 | $541 | 43.1% |
| Mark Elliott | $3,480 | $536 | -84.6% |
| Melissa Hope Griffin | $132 | $527 | 299.2% |
| Christopher Miller | $2,805 | $526 | -81.2% |
| Jerry L. Garland | $2,214 | $518 | -76.6% |
| Angela Harris | $1,563 | $510 | -67.4% |
| Randall Lee Sutherland | $2,702 | $507 | -81.2% |
| Larry Woodall | $1,221 | $505 | -58.6% |
| Amy L. Edwards | $5,841 | $494 | -91.5% |
| Wesley Swancy | $53,372 | $490 | -99.1% |
| Buford Chitwood Jr. | $1,639 | $490 | -70.1% |
| Burness W. Dalton | $1,181 | $473 | -59.9% |
| Ruth Elizabeth Fox | $0 | $470 | -- |
| Raymond M. Hice | $1,848 | $462 | -75% |
| Robert Lewis Arnold II | $2,321 | $454 | -80.4% |
| Jesse W. Mann III | $1,298 | $448 | -65.5% |
| Darlene W. Johns | $3,009 | $448 | -85.1% |
| Red Oak Farms, LLC | $2,375 | $426 | -82.1% |
| Carol A. Carroll | $422 | $422 | 0% |
| Larry J. Wright | $2,166 | $414 | -80.9% |
| David A. Smith | $924 | $401 | -56.6% |
| Kenneth Gregory Hunt | $1,623 | $376 | -76.8% |
| Hollis Wayne Young | $1,815 | $364 | -79.9% |
| Alex Sutherland | $1,353 | $362 | -73.2% |
| James Franklyn Truitt | $1,230 | $360 | -70.7% |
| John and Glenda Ford Revocable Trust | $1,763 | $352 | -80% |
| Justin Raymond Timms | $858 | $352 | -59% |
| Derek Daniel Stiefel | $3,821 | $343 | -91% |
| Wesley Keith Childers | $891 | $343 | -61.5% |
| Abraham Wesley Allen | $0 | $339 | -- |
| Thomas Chattam | $1,221 | $324 | -73.5% |
| Bo Hunter Dooley | $4,734 | $315 | -93.3% |
| Little Red Barn Mobile Petting Farm | $2,693 | $306 | -88.6% |
| Joseph B. Oneal | $528 | $286 | -45.8% |
| David Stokes | $153 | $282 | 84.3% |
| Keith Wyatt | $660 | $273 | -58.6% |
| Douglas Howard Muse | $495 | $259 | -47.7% |
| Hazel W. Bagwell | $446 | $252 | -43.5% |
| Santos Esquivel | $1,585 | $246 | -84.5% |
| Holly Childers | $4,335 | $245 | -94.3% |
| Richard Acree | $1,592 | $238 | -85.1% |
| Chavis Williams | $1,089 | $228 | -79.1% |
| Shae A. Hager | $3,384 | $214 | -93.7% |
| Albert Lee Stone Jr. | $353 | $188 | -46.7% |
| Mark Garland | $429 | $183 | -57.3% |
| Onofre Ramirez | $1,512 | $160 | -89.4% |
| James Ware | $702 | $156 | -77.8% |
| James Ross Strickland | $10,165 | $155 | -98.5% |
| Kenneth Hayes | $297 | $155 | -47.8% |
| Morris Franklin King | $396 | $146 | -63.1% |
| James Brandon Johnson | $1,622 | $137 | -91.6% |
| John E. Halcomb | $1,226 | $90 | -92.7% |
| Cris Robin Childers | $0 | $39 | -- |
| Travis L. Childers | $0 | $39 | -- |
| Hartsocks Horticulture, Inc. | $270,734 | $14 | -100% |
| Betty Rapp | $175 | $0 | -100% |
| Cody Allen Blalock | $385 | $0 | -100% |
| Dana L. Gravitt | $770 | $0 | -100% |
| Dwight L. Walraven | $612 | $0 | -100% |
| Eddie Brannon | $1,210 | $0 | -100% |
| Gordon & Susan Nelson Revoc Trust | $1,242 | $0 | -100% |
| Harley Brown | $7 | $0 | -100% |
| Heath G. Thomason | $21,027 | $0 | -100% |
| James D. Shaw | $1,265 | $0 | -100% |
| Lane R. Bennett | $1,447 | $0 | -100% |
| Matthew Gordon Sheriff | $723 | $0 | -100% |
| Rise N Shine Farm, Inc. | $79,967 | $0 | -100% |
| Tim Gray | $26 | $0 | -100% |
| Wayne Bowen | $3,410 | $0 | -100% |
| Chris Johnson | $2,200 | $0 | -100% |
| Jerry L. Blalock | $339 | $0 | -100% |
| Shirley Y. Wright | $918 | $0 | -100% |
| Tony Bunion Green | $2,081 | $0 | -100% |
| Sahvannah Lynna Miller | $605 | $0 | -100% |
| Ted L. Miller | $1,650 | $0 | -100% |
| Kenneth E. Sheriff Jr. | $34 | $0 | -100% |
| Kinsey Logan Baggett | $6,215 | $0 | -100% |
| Susannah Zaugg | $5,548 | $0 | -100% |
| Total subsidies | $2,264,642 | $1,379,261 | -39.1% |
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