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In 2021, 275 farmers in cities within Pittsylvania County received a total of $2.3 million in 459 farm subsidies, a 64.4% decrease compared to 2020, when the total was $6.6 million in 872 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 Pittsylvania County, Year Over Year
| Farmer | Total Received in 2020 | Total Received in 2021 | % Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waller Farms, Inc. | $344,072 | $189,713 | -44.9% |
| Vanderhyde Dairy, Inc. | $1,042,446 | $155,760 | -85.1% |
| Motley Dairy, Inc. | $464,106 | $146,319 | -68.5% |
| Hammock Dairy, Inc. | $773,809 | $138,016 | -82.2% |
| Mountain View Farms of Virginia, LLC | $0 | $127,173 | -- |
| Samuel M. Giles | $119,925 | $110,009 | -8.3% |
| K & K Owen Farms, Inc. | $53,825 | $97,676 | 81.5% |
| Robert Carson Harris | $37,507 | $74,958 | 99.9% |
| Harry W. Power | $43,412 | $71,472 | 64.6% |
| Holley Brothers | $98,162 | $60,557 | -38.3% |
| David R. Hutcherson | $120,289 | $54,365 | -54.8% |
| Allen's Logging, Inc. | $0 | $52,875 | -- |
| Emerson Logging, Inc. | $0 | $52,875 | -- |
| Yates Farm, Inc. | $73,396 | $52,229 | -28.8% |
| Roger L. Robertson | $75,420 | $50,237 | -33.4% |
| George T. Winn III | $236,419 | $44,293 | -81.3% |
| D Moore Farms, Inc. | $47,531 | $41,631 | -12.4% |
| Grazing & Grain Farm, LLC | $78,766 | $37,540 | -52.3% |
| Stanley F. Owen | $80,534 | $31,780 | -60.5% |
| Corey Rowland | $40,213 | $29,132 | -27.6% |
| Adams Brothers | $48,576 | $28,947 | -40.4% |
| Owen Farms, Inc. | $77,719 | $27,236 | -65% |
| Anthony R. Layne | $52,973 | $27,010 | -49% |
| Dennis J. Burnett | $76,016 | $25,897 | -65.9% |
| Larry L. Owen | $17,800 | $25,132 | 41.2% |
| Patrick Wayne Brown | $31,357 | $24,391 | -22.2% |
| Della Williams | $38,813 | $24,050 | -38% |
| Maxey Farms, Inc. | $107,005 | $23,209 | -78.3% |
| Haskins Farms, LLC | $58,045 | $22,265 | -61.6% |
| Jimmy Moon | $28,071 | $21,415 | -23.7% |
| Farm Service Agency/Commodity Credit Corporation | $0 | $20,625 | -- |
| W. L. Easley | $76,071 | $19,366 | -74.5% |
| J. C. Fuller | $13,004 | $19,155 | 47.3% |
| Rock Bottom Cattle Company | $25,826 | $18,176 | -29.6% |
| Leon Meadows | $15,280 | $14,919 | -2.4% |
| Phillip R. Collier | $0 | $13,488 | -- |
| David C. Parsons | $44,877 | $13,197 | -70.6% |
| Walter F. Dawson | $12,586 | $10,404 | -17.3% |
| Betty G Bryant Estate | $0 | $10,304 | -- |
| Melvin Douglas Owen Jr. | $10,054 | $10,054 | 0% |
| Benjamin Keith Easley | $11,420 | $9,019 | -21% |
| Graham Taylor Winn | $43,687 | $8,928 | -79.6% |
| J & M Farms | $15,728 | $8,436 | -46.4% |
| Brian Dale Crews | $0 | $8,436 | -- |
| Gayre Bennett Kelley | $6,518 | $8,398 | 28.8% |
| Harris & Harris Farms, LLC | $77,515 | $7,800 | -89.9% |
| Clearsight Farms, LLC | $28,778 | $6,759 | -76.5% |
| Dillion Costa | $16,889 | $6,323 | -62.6% |
| Russell H East III | $9,760 | $5,919 | -39.4% |
| William F. Wyatt | $17,928 | $5,702 | -68.2% |
| Dale H. Birdsall | $16,354 | $5,516 | -66.3% |
| Christopher Glen Tuck | $4,042 | $5,390 | 33.3% |
| Ricky B. Taylor | $4,980 | $5,120 | 2.8% |
| Archie Wayne Motley | $23,917 | $5,060 | -78.8% |
| Ramsey L. Taylor | $7,987 | $4,754 | -40.5% |
| Hugh T. Mitchell Jr. | $12,346 | $4,694 | -62% |
| Diane Crews | $0 | $3,909 | -- |
| Joseph Kevin Motley | $5,706 | $3,892 | -31.8% |
| Walter Hurt Shelton Jr. | $14,109 | $3,742 | -73.5% |
| Lois B. Tolbert | $2,253 | $3,706 | 64.5% |
| James Andrew Hankins | $17,573 | $3,596 | -79.5% |
| Earl M. Stanfield Jr. | $14,176 | $3,316 | -76.6% |
| Gary C. Oakes | $9,786 | $3,265 | -66.6% |
| Henry M. Easley | $8,717 | $3,257 | -62.6% |
| Kirk Stanley Gibson | $12,737 | $3,241 | -74.6% |
| Walter Coles Jr. | $0 | $3,185 | -- |
| Terry A. Moore | $20,460 | $3,138 | -84.7% |
| Nancy M. Rowland | $8,288 | $2,983 | -64% |
| Kevin E. Owen | $14,300 | $2,980 | -79.2% |
| Donald Lee Moore | $17,752 | $2,918 | -83.6% |
| B. T. Crews | $12,932 | $2,884 | -77.7% |
| Herbert W. Linthicum | $13,672 | $2,861 | -79.1% |
| John A. Haskins | $15,595 | $2,846 | -81.8% |
| CCC | $351 | $2,736 | 679.5% |
| Karl J. Clay | $14,700 | $2,650 | -82% |
| Carl W. Simpson | $12,652 | $2,438 | -80.7% |
| Thomas Lynn Nicholson | $5,564 | $2,426 | -56.4% |
| A. J. Nuckols | $20,050 | $2,420 | -87.9% |
| Kenneth E. Crews | $7,157 | $2,260 | -68.4% |
| Kenric Dews | $9,295 | $2,258 | -75.7% |
| Wallace C. Shelhorse | $13,867 | $2,217 | -84% |
| Jimmy D. Robertson | $8,011 | $2,169 | -72.9% |
| Paul G. McKenna | $9,838 | $2,152 | -78.1% |
| James C. Dalton | $8,150 | $2,120 | -74% |
| Kent N. Owen | $10,243 | $2,111 | -79.4% |
| Stephen Fuller | $0 | $2,090 | -- |
| Joe Motley | $2,995 | $2,053 | -31.5% |
| Tony Mayhew | $0 | $2,000 | -- |
| Paul Rigney | $16,036 | $1,881 | -88.3% |
| William D. Easley | $8,294 | $1,862 | -77.6% |
| Lynn Williams | $6,300 | $1,860 | -70.5% |
| Bicky Mayhew | $80 | $1,855 | 2,218.8% |
| David K. Gregory | $11,144 | $1,827 | -83.6% |
| Robert T. Simpson Jr. | $10,150 | $1,813 | -82.1% |
| Brown Family Farm, LLC | $8,046 | $1,792 | -77.7% |
| Raymond T. Parsons | $6,017 | $1,751 | -70.9% |
| Raymond G. Jones Jr. | $6,820 | $1,714 | -74.9% |
| David Spinella | $7,598 | $1,694 | -77.7% |
| Darrell W. Dalton | $7,393 | $1,654 | -77.6% |
| Tim Gregory | $9,291 | $1,612 | -82.6% |
| Latane Ray Dalton | $8,690 | $1,538 | -82.3% |
| Ryland E. Brumfield | $6,131 | $1,509 | -75.4% |
| Louise K. Yeatts | $9,771 | $1,473 | -84.9% |
| Robert D. Cooper | $9,474 | $1,469 | -84.5% |
| George D East | $4,808 | $1,406 | -70.8% |
| William G. Barbour Jr. | $8,907 | $1,401 | -84.3% |
| Deborah Y. Dalton | $8,638 | $1,396 | -83.8% |
| Chadley Ray Shelton | $10,327 | $1,356 | -86.9% |
| Wallace Wyatt | $7,219 | $1,330 | -81.6% |
| Jeffrey Dalton | $6,545 | $1,309 | -80% |
| Paul D. Short | $6,593 | $1,288 | -80.5% |
| James Clarence Johnson | $5,814 | $1,286 | -77.9% |
| Ruben W. Tucker Sr. | $6,658 | $1,280 | -80.8% |
| Timothy Dallas Cooke | $2,923 | $1,269 | -56.6% |
| Kelly Keatts | $7,200 | $1,252 | -82.6% |
| David A. Williams | $17,749 | $1,241 | -93% |
| Stephen Patrick Hyler | $5,742 | $1,226 | -78.6% |
| Roger P. Jefferson | $1,197 | $1,197 | 0% |
| Gary B. Barbour | $3,602 | $1,173 | -67.4% |
| Mary W. Jones | $7,018 | $1,159 | -83.5% |
| Daniel H. Lanier | $3,754 | $1,147 | -69.4% |
| Jesse N. Roach Jr. | $5,286 | $1,126 | -78.7% |
| Malinda C. Newby | $5,747 | $1,116 | -80.6% |
| Delmer H. Livengood Jr. | $11,166 | $1,103 | -90.1% |
| Joseph Allan Blair | $0 | $1,103 | -- |
| Eldridge H. Keen | $4,275 | $1,090 | -74.5% |
| Kenneth Knick | $5,027 | $1,086 | -78.4% |
| Otie C Haskins JR | $6,393 | $1,076 | -83.2% |
| Carroll Bailess | $7,342 | $1,069 | -85.4% |
| Kenneth E. Dalton | $3,990 | $1,061 | -73.4% |
| Blake A. Hutcherson | $8,557 | $1,038 | -87.9% |
| Rufus Adkins Jr. | $3,156 | $1,037 | -67.1% |
| Cody Rigney | $4,114 | $1,034 | -74.9% |
| Sammie Lee Reynolds | $4,862 | $1,009 | -79.2% |
| Glenn Patton Hawker Sr. | $2,216 | $998 | -55% |
| Wayne M. Brumfield | $3,990 | $922 | -76.9% |
| Paul C. Lewis Jr. | $4,262 | $918 | -78.5% |
| Felix T. Vasser Jr. | $5,166 | $911 | -82.4% |
| Jarrett W. Motley | $4,500 | $903 | -79.9% |
| Barley Mill Beef, Inc. | $0 | $883 | -- |
| Nancy P. Parsons | $3,641 | $878 | -75.9% |
| Ronald H. Bailess | $4,323 | $862 | -80.1% |
| Wayne W. Davis Jr. | $2,178 | $860 | -60.5% |
| Jeffrey K. Robertson | $4,125 | $834 | -79.8% |
| Glenn T East | $4,314 | $831 | -80.7% |
| Kent R. Parsons | $3,641 | $824 | -77.4% |
| Walter Maddy | $2,211 | $818 | -63% |
| John Frank Phillips | $0 | $818 | -- |
| Cook & Son Farms, LLC | $13,692 | $799 | -94.2% |
| James W. Yeatts | $5,118 | $794 | -84.5% |
| Matthew Allen Wells | $3,091 | $792 | -74.4% |
| Harvey Wells | $3,542 | $778 | -78% |
| Kevin Bennett Crider | $3,685 | $770 | -79.1% |
| Jerry Ray Manning | $3,731 | $757 | -79.7% |
| DJ Farms, LLC | $4,814 | $754 | -84.3% |
| Jerome Mattox | $5,854 | $744 | -87.3% |
| Benjamin O. Stine | $4,533 | $742 | -83.6% |
| Mary Ann Clark | $115 | $720 | 526.1% |
| Kenneth Cook | $3,173 | $720 | -77.3% |
| James A. Tucker | $1,496 | $715 | -52.2% |
| Louis Ray Sink | $3,542 | $696 | -80.4% |
| James T. Scearce | $2,651 | $692 | -73.9% |
| Dennis H. Tucker | $2,696 | $689 | -74.4% |
| Vincent W. Aaron | $3,037 | $677 | -77.7% |
| Ronnie L. Cooke | $3,547 | $677 | -80.9% |
| Jason Osborne | $2,842 | $662 | -76.7% |
| Deroy Layne | $3,069 | $660 | -78.5% |
| Alvis Henry White Jr. | $3,878 | $653 | -83.2% |
| Joseph T. Bowles | $3,237 | $648 | -80% |
| William Gene Richardson | $1,915 | $639 | -66.6% |
| Dallas L. Campbell | $3,042 | $638 | -79% |
| Howard Taft Yeatts III | $2,992 | $620 | -79.3% |
| Donald Owen McGregor | $2,992 | $599 | -80% |
| Howard T. Powell | $2,218 | $578 | -73.9% |
| Carl Gauldin | $1,826 | $571 | -68.7% |
| Charlie V. Mahan | $5,868 | $571 | -90.3% |
| Willie E. Redd Jr. | $571 | $571 | 0% |
| Julian P. Finch | $2,321 | $560 | -75.9% |
| Roy B. Crider | $3,707 | $555 | -85% |
| Jeffrey Rice | $406 | $541 | 33.3% |
| John D. Neal Jr. | $3,093 | $536 | -82.7% |
| Malcolm E. Tucker | $2,792 | $532 | -80.9% |
| Charles N. Wells | $1,890 | $528 | -72.1% |
| Davenie W Cooke | $0 | $522 | -- |
| Lena Blair | $2,673 | $518 | -80.6% |
| Leroy W. Beimel Jr. | $42,601 | $511 | -98.8% |
| Timothy Gammon | $2,190 | $504 | -77% |
| Pat M Allbeck | $1,947 | $490 | -74.8% |
| Russell M. Clay Jr. | $1,551 | $485 | -68.7% |
| Robert Benjamin Kendig | $2,428 | $483 | -80.1% |
| Otha Kermit Gibson | $0 | $478 | -- |
| Michael Angelo Nava | $3,499 | $473 | -86.5% |
| Irvin Wood Jr. | $2,244 | $471 | -79% |
| Christopher C. Tucker | $2,374 | $467 | -80.3% |
| Nancie M. Motley | $461 | $461 | 0% |
| Jason K. Brooks | $2,883 | $450 | -84.4% |
| Deborah Heath | $2,660 | $446 | -83.2% |
| Luther Vernon Moon | $442 | $442 | 0% |
| Robert J. Guthrie | $4,096 | $429 | -89.5% |
| James W. Hardy | $2,453 | $422 | -82.8% |
| L. mac King | $1,012 | $410 | -59.5% |
| Paul D. Erwin | $1,620 | $403 | -75.1% |
| Dylan Lecik | $1,459 | $399 | -72.7% |
| Kim Jones | $990 | $384 | -61.2% |
| John Daniel Harris | $376 | $376 | 0% |
| Carrie P. Jacobs | $464 | $371 | -20% |
| Alvin N. Smith Jr. | $534 | $369 | -30.9% |
| Jeffrey Blair | $2,034 | $356 | -82.5% |
| Roger C. Giles | $351 | $351 | 0% |
| Regina Seamster | $1,782 | $350 | -80.4% |
| Bobby W. Evans | $1,584 | $346 | -78.2% |
| Walter L. Pillow | $0 | $342 | -- |
| Porter Longerbeam | $766 | $340 | -55.6% |
| Suzanne B. Browne | $319 | $319 | 0% |
| James M. Farthing | $2,385 | $318 | -86.7% |
| Andrew Ryan Pope | $1,254 | $310 | -75.3% |
| Michael A. Rowland | $3,765 | $304 | -91.9% |
| Godfrey Thomas Mitchell | $1,298 | $301 | -76.8% |
| Stanley G. Reynolds | $902 | $293 | -67.5% |
| Ronnie E. Simpson | $1,722 | $287 | -83.3% |
| Lovelace Farms, LLC | $1,077 | $280 | -74% |
| Andrew J. Oakes | $1,816 | $280 | -84.6% |
| Bobby Dean Doss | $1,576 | $266 | -83.1% |
| Jimmy Hendricks | $1,530 | $266 | -82.6% |
| Dale J. Hawker | $0 | $261 | -- |
| Duffer Dakota Property, LLP | $253 | $253 | 0% |
| Jerry Nero Johnson | $0 | $243 | -- |
| Andrew R. Derrick | $2,026 | $239 | -88.2% |
| William D. Foster | $1,144 | $228 | -80.1% |
| Garry Thomas | $2,132 | $225 | -89.4% |
| William K. Pearson Jr. | $421 | $220 | -47.7% |
| Adison W. Vuncannon | $1,232 | $215 | -82.5% |
| Matthew Reynolds | $1,064 | $211 | -80.2% |
| Henry W. Harmon | $1,155 | $206 | -82.2% |
| Dallas Dale Tuck | $996 | $200 | -79.9% |
| Brenda L. Amos | $0 | $200 | -- |
| Marvin Brumfield | $759 | $199 | -73.8% |
| Ryland J. Hankins | $195 | $195 | 0% |
| Walter L. Pillow Jr. | $0 | $194 | -- |
| William Carter Simpson | $0 | $192 | -- |
| Samuel Charles Bray | $1,166 | $186 | -84% |
| Pittsylvania County FSA Office | $0 | $181 | -- |
| David Vanwyhe | $550 | $181 | -67.1% |
| Billy Lee Giles Jr. | $180 | $180 | 0% |
| Danna T. Dalton | $0 | $178 | -- |
| W. R. Witcher | $4,141 | $173 | -95.8% |
| Sam D. Brooks | $906 | $172 | -81% |
| Theodore Rufus Calloway | $889 | $169 | -81% |
| Stanley W. Compton | $1,387 | $159 | -88.5% |
| Nannie Sue Farmer | $1,211 | $149 | -87.7% |
| Wyatt & Son | $1,014 | $147 | -85.5% |
| Ronnie Dalton | $1,978 | $142 | -92.8% |
| Garry Lee Dalton | $1,725 | $135 | -92.2% |
| Jewel H. Cooke | $605 | $132 | -78.2% |
| Ricky Lee Childress | $534 | $132 | -75.3% |
| David Easome | $539 | $128 | -76.3% |
| James H. Edwards Jr. | $108 | $101 | -6.5% |
| Michael S. Adkins | $11,841 | $90 | -99.2% |
| Ronald L. Chumley | $757 | $90 | -88.1% |
| Maurice R. Witcher Jr. | $528 | $73 | -86.2% |
| Amy H. Tucker | $72 | $72 | 0% |
| Dermicos a Hall | $1,045 | $70 | -93.3% |
| Ann J. Bates | $0 | $64 | -- |
| Clarence E. Oakes | $505 | $58 | -88.5% |
| Vivian E. Andrews | $3,020 | $51 | -98.3% |
| Pattie M. Farthing | $0 | $49 | -- |
| Neal Herndon | $35 | $35 | 0% |
| Willie L. Thompson | $165 | $35 | -78.8% |
| Kevin Earl Owen | $0 | $27 | -- |
| Ryland M. Reynolds | $2,115 | $26 | -98.8% |
| Carl J. Parsons | $0 | $25 | -- |
| Edward C. Frank | $46 | $23 | -50% |
| Susan Hunt | $0 | $18 | -- |
| Farm Service Agency | $14,400 | $8 | -99.9% |
| Rex Allen Scott | $5 | $5 | 0% |
| James C. Lipscomb | $2,310 | $0 | -100% |
| Linda M. Myers | $2,090 | $0 | -100% |
| Marshall H. Kendall | $630 | $0 | -100% |
| William H. Rogers Jr. | $5,953 | $0 | -100% |
| Arnold K. Reynolds | $1,264 | $0 | -100% |
| Commodity Credit Corporation | $226 | $0 | -100% |
| Cora L. Dawson | $2,035 | $0 | -100% |
| Daniel Lee Moore | $170 | $0 | -100% |
| Edward G. Motley | $660 | $0 | -100% |
| Farm Service Agency/Commodity CRE | $16,993 | $0 | -100% |
| FSA - FLP | $2,296 | $0 | -100% |
| James Vaughan | $963 | $0 | -100% |
| Jesse E. Owen | $60 | $0 | -100% |
| Joseph H. Williams | $1,545 | $0 | -100% |
| Joshua Brumfield | $541 | $0 | -100% |
| Malcolm D. Roach Jr. | $7 | $0 | -100% |
| Mountain View Farms of Virginia L | $625,003 | $0 | -100% |
| Kermit O. Gibson | $4,631 | $0 | -100% |
| Susan B. Easley | $6,765 | $0 | -100% |
| Usda FSA FLP | $152 | $0 | -100% |
| Usda-Flp | $204 | $0 | -100% |
| Usda-Fsa-Flp | $8,438 | $0 | -100% |
| Walter Coles Sr. | $20,745 | $0 | -100% |
| Zachary Thomas Harris | $18,205 | $0 | -100% |
| Allan Blair | $6,837 | $0 | -100% |
| Ann H. Barbour | $154 | $0 | -100% |
| Danny Wayne Lewis | $17,500 | $0 | -100% |
| Dexter E. Amos | $419 | $0 | -100% |
| Douglas Lee Prevatte | $1,375 | $0 | -100% |
| Elmer J. Cocke | $1,306 | $0 | -100% |
| Gary R. Short | $990 | $0 | -100% |
| Gary W. Thomas | $4,635 | $0 | -100% |
| Kyle Randolph Scott | $1,705 | $0 | -100% |
| Motleys Strawberry Farm, Inc. | $3,737 | $0 | -100% |
| Patricia Rowland | $16,602 | $0 | -100% |
| Cordell R. Bullington | $550 | $0 | -100% |
| Richard D. Turner | $314 | $0 | -100% |
| Wayne S. Anderson | $523 | $0 | -100% |
| Terri P. Doss | $84 | $0 | -100% |
| Thomas Adams Nicholson | $5,170 | $0 | -100% |
| Wallace L. Campbell | $330 | $0 | -100% |
| Windy Acres Nursery, Inc. | $49,772 | $0 | -100% |
| Carolyn C. Bailess | $440 | $0 | -100% |
| Christopher L. Anter | $715 | $0 | -100% |
| James Lucy | $660 | $0 | -100% |
| Luke William Conner | $660 | $0 | -100% |
| Michael T. Reynolds | $935 | $0 | -100% |
| Richard Hunter Austin | $236 | $0 | -100% |
| Tamela P. Barnes | $84 | $0 | -100% |
| Total subsidies | $6,555,651 | $2,335,347 | -64.4% |
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