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In 2021, 135 farmers in cities within Hot Spring County received a total of $645,337 in 151 farm subsidies, a 47% decrease compared to 2020, when the total was $1.2 million in 322 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.
| Farmer | Total Received in 2020 | Total Received in 2021 | % Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Creek Timber Company | $0 | $52,875 | -- |
| Gill Timber Producers, LLC | $0 | $52,875 | -- |
| J & P Hill Trucking, Inc. | $0 | $52,875 | -- |
| South Creek Logging, LLC | $0 | $52,875 | -- |
| Bakers Land & Cattle, Inc. | $0 | $52,875 | -- |
| Roundhill Trucking, LLC | $0 | $41,506 | -- |
| C & P Farms, LLC | $0 | $36,838 | -- |
| Kyle Whitley | $294,701 | $36,312 | -87.7% |
| Austin Leslie Williams | $1,557 | $28,417 | 1,725.1% |
| Kevin N. Whitley | $49,072 | $22,158 | -54.8% |
| Robert Draper | $0 | $17,328 | -- |
| R. A. G. Farms | $92,890 | $11,698 | -87.4% |
| Jerry L Mcmahan | $0 | $11,473 | -- |
| Caddo Cattle & Land, LLC | $44,561 | $9,514 | -78.6% |
| Ray Cook | $26,347 | $7,589 | -71.2% |
| Doyle Wayne Jones | $22,567 | $6,848 | -69.7% |
| Shirley E. Yerby | $0 | $6,490 | -- |
| Mark Wallis | $22,968 | $5,922 | -74.2% |
| Edward E. Schales | $14,477 | $5,122 | -64.6% |
| Charles Ross | $13,229 | $4,900 | -63% |
| Charles D. Bunn | $26,026 | $4,790 | -81.6% |
| Spah, LLC | $8,041 | $4,092 | -49.1% |
| David M. Stritzinger | $17,047 | $3,995 | -76.6% |
| James C. Ross | $23,319 | $3,987 | -82.9% |
| Jerry W. Hughes | $0 | $3,410 | -- |
| Rachel Ann Gregory Trust | $27,314 | $3,264 | -88.1% |
| Richard Hughes | $11,773 | $2,962 | -74.8% |
| Cindy Krone McClure | $4,376 | $2,886 | -34% |
| Anna Christie Eddlemon | $6,115 | $2,791 | -54.4% |
| Judy C. Pennington | $9,630 | $2,723 | -71.7% |
| Nita F. Chadwick | $14,807 | $2,411 | -83.7% |
| Kevin W. Starkey | $11,869 | $2,371 | -80% |
| Jack W. Ray Jr. | $7,900 | $2,358 | -70.2% |
| Connie F. Gregory | $14,247 | $2,295 | -83.9% |
| Gary Gregory | $14,177 | $2,278 | -83.9% |
| Crystal Lynn Sanabria | $0 | $2,128 | -- |
| Mary McDaniel | $1,791 | $2,098 | 17.1% |
| Sanford Nix | $11,470 | $2,086 | -81.8% |
| Eddie F. Ritter | $8,972 | $2,067 | -77% |
| Andy Guin | $10,002 | $2,008 | -79.9% |
| Larry Guin | $9,559 | $1,897 | -80.2% |
| Mickey C. Shaffer | $13,206 | $1,831 | -86.1% |
| T & W Cattle Farms, LLC | $9,461 | $1,750 | -81.5% |
| John Jackson | $6,974 | $1,732 | -75.2% |
| Jennifer J. Lanier | $6,776 | $1,722 | -74.6% |
| Michael Lanier | $6,677 | $1,672 | -75% |
| Arnis Hickman | $5,662 | $1,616 | -71.5% |
| Wayne Dyer | $10,057 | $1,522 | -84.9% |
| Kurt D. Crawford | $6,974 | $1,456 | -79.1% |
| Kyle D. Barnett | $21,977 | $1,441 | -93.4% |
| Curtis Robinson | $6,258 | $1,418 | -77.3% |
| Lazaro Gonzalez Ramos | $6,065 | $1,397 | -77% |
| Chris Hayes | $6,127 | $1,374 | -77.6% |
| Roy Ray | $5,203 | $1,344 | -74.2% |
| Ramona Lewallen | $6,959 | $1,333 | -80.8% |
| Brad Smith Farms, LLC | $6,452 | $1,272 | -80.3% |
| Cindy Bingham | $2,937 | $1,248 | -57.5% |
| Jimmy Bettis | $4,587 | $1,226 | -73.3% |
| Warren Smoke | $3,931 | $1,173 | -70.2% |
| William D. Wheatley | $5,876 | $1,138 | -80.6% |
| Shanda O. Ashley | $4,807 | $1,099 | -77.1% |
| Raymond L. Cheatham | $3,633 | $1,084 | -70.2% |
| Chad T. Marsh | $5,093 | $1,065 | -79.1% |
| William R. Overton | $5,010 | $1,005 | -79.9% |
| Dustin Eric Hill | $4,103 | $987 | -75.9% |
| Briah Nicole Bailey | $2,688 | $986 | -63.3% |
| Rachel Lynn Bearden | $9,594 | $982 | -89.8% |
| John Michael Bearden | $9,539 | $972 | -89.8% |
| Joe Garrett | $1,434 | $954 | -33.5% |
| Charles Burks | $5,788 | $949 | -83.6% |
| Paul Richard Harper | $5,502 | $927 | -83.2% |
| Thomas F. Landreth | $4,411 | $900 | -79.6% |
| Land and Stewart, LLC | $883 | $883 | 0% |
| Bradley Bernard Hardin | $6,400 | $876 | -86.3% |
| Mick McFarlin | $5,991 | $867 | -85.5% |
| Charles D. Ferguson | $3,827 | $854 | -77.7% |
| Mitzi Sulton | $4,570 | $827 | -81.9% |
| Winchel Living Trust | $3,267 | $827 | -74.7% |
| Toni Gray | $784 | $784 | 0% |
| Alan Sanford Nix | $2,924 | $782 | -73.3% |
| Jerry L. Hall | $3,904 | $744 | -80.9% |
| Sam C. Hedges | $3,003 | $724 | -75.9% |
| Blake Pennington | $3,885 | $714 | -81.6% |
| Jonathan Farber | $3,740 | $698 | -81.3% |
| Casey Glasgow | $5,456 | $696 | -87.2% |
| Randell Shane Ashley | $4,243 | $694 | -83.6% |
| Larry B. Brashears | $2,990 | $693 | -76.8% |
| Donnie Draper | $1,749 | $689 | -60.6% |
| Rodney L. Lewallen | $3,245 | $672 | -79.3% |
| Bradley Hughes | $3,102 | $667 | -78.5% |
| Crystal Bond | $2,486 | $663 | -73.3% |
| Karyn van Oard | $2,080 | $633 | -69.6% |
| Patricia J. Edwards | $2,178 | $631 | -71% |
| Ted Honeycutt | $2,464 | $588 | -76.1% |
| Carrol E. Jackson | $2,156 | $581 | -73.1% |
| Larry Strother | $2,893 | $560 | -80.6% |
| Michael Anderson | $5,607 | $560 | -90% |
| David Collie | $2,852 | $546 | -80.9% |
| John Blake Riggan | $2,385 | $532 | -77.7% |
| Chris E. Williams | $2,713 | $526 | -80.6% |
| Joshua Dean Whitney | $2,442 | $498 | -79.6% |
| Michael R. Collie | $2,368 | $495 | -79.1% |
| Rachel Leigh Fryar | $2,046 | $484 | -76.3% |
| Diane L. Gray | $2,189 | $483 | -77.9% |
| Dustin Keith Tugwell | $2,002 | $480 | -76% |
| Bobbie Wright | $1,089 | $477 | -56.2% |
| Bobby Higgins | $978 | $471 | -51.8% |
| Roy D. Baker | $1,771 | $464 | -73.8% |
| Donna Sharp | $2,189 | $456 | -79.2% |
| Richard Harper | $3,580 | $443 | -87.6% |
| Mark Kindy | $1,881 | $440 | -76.6% |
| Johnny L. Harper | $2,643 | $418 | -84.2% |
| Harold W. Chancellor | $0 | $395 | -- |
| Benjamin E. Cranford | $2,688 | $363 | -86.5% |
| Nita Adams | $1,841 | $363 | -80.3% |
| William R. Garrett | $532 | $355 | -33.3% |
| Emil W. Ritter | $1,441 | $353 | -75.5% |
| Paul Elliott | $1,523 | $330 | -78.3% |
| Robert John Parker | $2,802 | $294 | -89.5% |
| Billy Adams | $1,562 | $286 | -81.7% |
| Larry D. Vincent | $1,408 | $280 | -80.1% |
| Sherry R. Rorie | $247 | $265 | 7.3% |
| Charles Morgan | $946 | $232 | -75.5% |
| Scott Wallace | $869 | $228 | -73.8% |
| Floyd W. Alexander | $1,270 | $197 | -84.5% |
| Mark Badgwell | $968 | $190 | -80.4% |
| Danny Paul Hankins | $224 | $185 | -17.4% |
| Robin Lee Dement | $517 | $155 | -70% |
| Jared Daniel Shinn | $648 | $153 | -76.4% |
| Clayton A. Ray | $396 | $142 | -64.1% |
| Danny E. Stanley | $572 | $135 | -76.4% |
| Marcia L. Cooper | $224 | $124 | -44.6% |
| James L. Draper | $766 | $114 | -85.1% |
| Kenneth Draper Sr. | $1,736 | $104 | -94% |
| Lisa Edwards | $82 | $12 | -85.4% |
| Jimmy Gourley | $510 | $0 | -100% |
| William T. Morehead | $1,479 | $0 | -100% |
| Kathryn N. Clark | $180 | $0 | -100% |
| Alex Huell | $110 | $0 | -100% |
| Arkansas Natural Produce | $25,398 | $0 | -100% |
| Charles Emerson Ramey | $770 | $0 | -100% |
| Daniel Kizziar | $440 | $0 | -100% |
| Darren Ivy | $440 | $0 | -100% |
| Mike Mitchell | $770 | $0 | -100% |
| Miller Farms, LLC | $9,237 | $0 | -100% |
| Patrick Smith | $440 | $0 | -100% |
| Ray Gene Ryle | $1,265 | $0 | -100% |
| Ricky Morgan | $660 | $0 | -100% |
| Roger Gill | $880 | $0 | -100% |
| John R. Ross | $9,680 | $0 | -100% |
| Total subsidies | $1,217,041 | $645,337 | -47% |
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