The government paid out nearly $2.8 million to a Missouri soybean-growing operation registered as three entities at the same address.
Bernard Peterson leans on a tractor at his farm in Loretto, Ky. At Peterson's farm, eight members of the family partnership collected a total of $863,560 in aid for crops they grow in seven counties.
Recipients who spoke to the Associated Press defended the payouts, saying that the aid didn’t cover all their losses from the trade war and that they were legally entitled to the money. U.S. Department of Agriculture rules let farms file claims for multiple family members or other partners who meet the department’s definition of being “actively engaged in farming.”
USDA officials defended the program, saying that they believe the agency’s rules are being followed and that it has procedures in place to audit recipients. At Peterson Farms in Loretto, Ky., eight members of the family partnership collected a total of $863,560 for crops they grow on more than 15,000 acres in seven counties, including wheat and corn used at the nearby Maker’s Mark bourbon distillery.
The numerous ways around the $125,000 caps mean that millions of subsidy dollars flow to “city slickers who are stretching the limits of the law,” said Scott Faber, senior vice president of government affairs at the Environmental Working Group, which has long tracked federal farm subsidy programs, and criticizes them as biased toward big producers and promoting environmentally damaging farming practices.
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