Adobe Stock
Adobe Stock
In 2021, 170 farmers in cities within Craven County received a total of $4.1 million in 404 farm subsidies, a 39.7% decrease compared to 2020, when the total was $6.8 million in 563 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 Craven County, Year Over Year
| Farmer | Total Received in 2020 | Total Received in 2021 | % Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson Farms Jackie L Anderson SR Della B Anderson & Jacki | $0 | $396,937 | -- |
| J-1 Enterprises, Inc. | $189,542 | $245,435 | 29.5% |
| French Farms | $450,896 | $228,870 | -49.2% |
| R & W Mccoy Farms, Inc. | $328,749 | $217,462 | -33.9% |
| T R C Farms, Inc. | $200,172 | $198,670 | -0.8% |
| Mackilwean Turf Farm, Inc. | $78,451 | $179,151 | 128.4% |
| Amerson Farms, Inc. | $140,010 | $153,836 | 9.9% |
| Jason R. Jones | $176,354 | $104,782 | -40.6% |
| Wood Brothers Farm, Inc. | $199,673 | $102,620 | -48.6% |
| Beech Grove Farms, LLC | $273,010 | $101,426 | -62.8% |
| Jameson Quinn Farms, LLC | $168,705 | $97,402 | -42.3% |
| David H Parker Farms, Inc. | $216,602 | $94,601 | -56.3% |
| Arthur Farms, Inc. | $233,522 | $93,404 | -60% |
| Kenneth Quinn | $148,679 | $85,084 | -42.8% |
| Quinn Farms | $93,576 | $80,420 | -14.1% |
| McCoy Cattle Farms | $95,011 | $79,298 | -16.5% |
| Charles Clayton Mitchell | $162,590 | $70,445 | -56.7% |
| Gary Amerson | $120,988 | $68,645 | -43.3% |
| Roland D. McCoy Jr. | $97,386 | $59,585 | -38.8% |
| Glen E. Nobles | $107,401 | $58,431 | -45.6% |
| Charles Allen Mitchell | $122,744 | $55,580 | -54.7% |
| Matthew Reid Davenport | $94,447 | $54,797 | -42% |
| Mckeel & Sons Logging, Inc. | $0 | $52,875 | -- |
| Alum Springs, LLC | $0 | $48,894 | -- |
| Johnathan Scott Kilpatrick | $93,039 | $48,739 | -47.6% |
| Glen Allen Ipock | $76,763 | $45,637 | -40.5% |
| Sassers Mill Livestock, Inc. | $0 | $41,647 | -- |
| Jerry Jones | $0 | $41,341 | -- |
| Carolina Agent, LLC | $101,254 | $38,781 | -61.7% |
| Shelby Farms, LLC | $64,497 | $35,232 | -45.4% |
| Andrew M. Bland | $68,928 | $32,445 | -52.9% |
| & R Partnership, P L | $61,595 | $31,616 | -48.7% |
| Chad Mcdaniel Jones | $67,257 | $30,877 | -54.1% |
| Breaking New Ground, LLC | $47,907 | $30,214 | -36.9% |
| Ashley Ray Humbles | $26,547 | $30,131 | 13.5% |
| Shade Bland | $49,032 | $29,234 | -40.4% |
| Faulkner and Sons | $63,356 | $28,605 | -54.9% |
| Patrick Roosevelt Prichard | $2,002 | $28,426 | 1,319.9% |
| Thomas Dale Eborn | $76,847 | $27,989 | -63.6% |
| Tommy Mccoy Livestock, Inc. | $0 | $26,185 | -- |
| Dred C Mitchell JR | $39,362 | $25,836 | -34.4% |
| Tom Nobles | $44,424 | $25,650 | -42.3% |
| Donnie Rasberry | $0 | $25,475 | -- |
| White Rock Fish Farm | $0 | $23,401 | -- |
| Kenneth Nobles | $43,221 | $21,866 | -49.4% |
| Brandon Earl Smith | $0 | $21,445 | -- |
| Denard T. Potter | $27,301 | $21,236 | -22.2% |
| Nelson Blueberry Farm, LLC | $51,950 | $21,130 | -59.3% |
| Woody A. Sutton | $30,418 | $19,878 | -34.7% |
| James B. Holton III | $45,039 | $19,222 | -57.3% |
| John E. Ipock | $35,085 | $17,684 | -49.6% |
| Sutton Family Farms, LLC | $0 | $14,880 | -- |
| Dale Owens Dawson | $34,441 | $13,629 | -60.4% |
| Capt Gaston, LLC | $0 | $12,359 | -- |
| Troy Elwood Wilson | $21,210 | $11,775 | -44.5% |
| Donald Earl Riggs | $21,597 | $10,994 | -49.1% |
| Benjamin G. Potter | $31,549 | $10,569 | -66.5% |
| David Allen Heath | $0 | $9,951 | -- |
| SLM Farms, Inc. | $26,422 | $9,872 | -62.6% |
| E. L. Salter Jr. | $13,362 | $9,015 | -32.5% |
| Trawler Jonathan Ryan, LLC | $0 | $8,822 | -- |
| TCG Company, Inc. | $0 | $8,208 | -- |
| Walter Moore | $12,676 | $8,010 | -36.8% |
| William W. Taylor | $7,899 | $7,899 | 0% |
| Woody A. Sutton Jr. | $23,792 | $7,814 | -67.2% |
| Nobles Farm, Inc. | $20,145 | $7,793 | -61.3% |
| Shannon Davis Register | $0 | $7,681 | -- |
| Armester Lee Campbell | $15,452 | $7,482 | -51.6% |
| Joey Nobles | $11,737 | $7,377 | -37.1% |
| Eleanor W. Spain | $0 | $6,419 | -- |
| Green Leaf Produce, LLC | $0 | $6,240 | -- |
| Vernice Ipock Hoyle | $6,022 | $6,022 | 0% |
| Trawler Catherine Lane, Inc. | $0 | $6,005 | -- |
| Garland Franklin Purser Jr. | $12,031 | $5,964 | -50.4% |
| Ellen Rasmussen | $7,062 | $5,875 | -16.8% |
| Trawler Jonathan Ryan, Inc. | $0 | $5,728 | -- |
| Dah Farm, LLC | $11,126 | $5,506 | -50.5% |
| Golden Leaf Tobacco Exchange, LLC | $30,823 | $5,248 | -83% |
| Trawler Capt Fud, LLC | $0 | $5,106 | -- |
| Carl Turner | $19,067 | $5,042 | -73.6% |
| C Canal Farms, Inc. | $5,040 | $5,040 | 0% |
| Michael Miles McCoy | $10,389 | $5,019 | -51.7% |
| Chris G. Register | $3,971 | $5,001 | 25.9% |
| Fulcher Trawling, LLC | $0 | $4,874 | -- |
| O'Neal Simmons | $6,550 | $4,670 | -28.7% |
| Bobby Howland Kilpatrick | $12,716 | $4,470 | -64.8% |
| Warren A. Pitts | $15,028 | $4,469 | -70.3% |
| Mack Prescott III | $42,153 | $4,366 | -89.6% |
| Henry W Gerock JR | $3,249 | $4,332 | 33.3% |
| GG Farm, LLC | $0 | $4,165 | -- |
| Jesse F. Braxton | $3,820 | $3,820 | 0% |
| Gloria Godley Willis | $3,350 | $3,660 | 9.3% |
| Kenneth L. Klein | $4,084 | $3,618 | -11.4% |
| Georgia J Storasli-Everette | $3,592 | $3,592 | 0% |
| Myra L Storasli-Holloway | $3,592 | $3,592 | 0% |
| Beverly R. Nelson | $0 | $2,868 | -- |
| Reid F. Duncan Jr. | $7,524 | $2,691 | -64.2% |
| Thomas David Herring | $3,157 | $2,590 | -18% |
| Nedgelena S Jennings | $0 | $2,476 | -- |
| Michael D. Woolard | $4,717 | $2,456 | -47.9% |
| Dale R. Koehn | $9,277 | $2,453 | -73.6% |
| Debra T. Tyndall | $4,281 | $2,347 | -45.2% |
| Robert E. Tyndall | $4,281 | $2,347 | -45.2% |
| Kathy McGaughey | $2,145 | $2,145 | 0% |
| Randy Gerald Register | $2,062 | $2,011 | -2.5% |
| Thomas McCoy | $3,014 | $1,818 | -39.7% |
| Fairview Farms, Inc. | $12,948 | $1,706 | -86.8% |
| Robert Franklin Fulcher | $2,485 | $1,635 | -34.2% |
| Valeria Truitt | $3,084 | $1,592 | -48.4% |
| Milton D. Sheffield | $1,578 | $1,578 | 0% |
| Deanna Rochelle Spear-Lingman | $0 | $1,450 | -- |
| Kirkman Family Farms, LLC | $0 | $1,374 | -- |
| Michael J. More | $0 | $1,268 | -- |
| Jennifer M. Smith | $5,626 | $1,250 | -77.8% |
| Janice Young | $1,489 | $1,236 | -17% |
| Ryan S. Bethea | $42,711 | $1,204 | -97.2% |
| Roger G Russell & Sons, Inc. | $2,283 | $1,204 | -47.3% |
| John W. Dunham Sr. | $2,560 | $1,160 | -54.7% |
| Melvin Huggins | $0 | $1,150 | -- |
| Bryan A. Ipock | $4,653 | $1,008 | -78.3% |
| Timothy Charles Lingman | $525 | $925 | 76.2% |
| Brandon Tyler Sutton | $1,884 | $883 | -53.1% |
| Margo Fesperman | $875 | $875 | 0% |
| Justin Blake Nobles | $768 | $829 | 7.9% |
| James Douglas Franks | $0 | $818 | -- |
| Phillip L. Zellers | $1,960 | $777 | -60.4% |
| Wendell B. Heath | $396 | $749 | 89.1% |
| Pate Property, LLC | $840 | $680 | -19% |
| Larry W. Revels | $676 | $676 | 0% |
| Smith Farms of Vanceboro, LLC | $1,295 | $656 | -49.3% |
| Dorothy D. Howard | $613 | $613 | 0% |
| Walter Register | $1,782 | $554 | -68.9% |
| Robert P. Sullivan | $1,644 | $550 | -66.5% |
| Margaret Boykin | $2,082 | $549 | -73.6% |
| Melissa M. Barnett | $13,762 | $525 | -96.2% |
| Alice Heath Lyle | $0 | $524 | -- |
| Ainslie E. Guion | $3,629 | $446 | -87.7% |
| James Joseph Patterson Jr. | $449 | $441 | -1.8% |
| John R. Johnson | $2,217 | $414 | -81.3% |
| Jimmy Rand Powell | $312 | $411 | 31.7% |
| Jamie R. Jenkins | $350 | $389 | 11.1% |
| Mark Johnson | $916 | $352 | -61.6% |
| Conway Farms, LLC | $0 | $322 | -- |
| Danny Theodore Morris | $399 | $322 | -19.3% |
| Amanda B Ohlensehlen | $1,993 | $319 | -84% |
| Danielle Lynn Stephens Oakley | $297 | $297 | 0% |
| Linda Haddock Harriett | $285 | $285 | 0% |
| Grady L. Potter | $601 | $246 | -59.1% |
| Kimberly Parker Daugherty | $296 | $240 | -18.9% |
| John Timothy Ipock | $847 | $238 | -71.9% |
| William Samuel Lane Jr. | $1,829 | $229 | -87.5% |
| Edward M. Moore | $0 | $219 | -- |
| Charles Lewis | $0 | $210 | -- |
| Jerry K. Nelson | $3,336 | $191 | -94.3% |
| George T. Dudley | $285 | $184 | -35.4% |
| Robert L. Wright | $0 | $165 | -- |
| Laurance Farmer | $137 | $137 | 0% |
| Lauren Nicole MacDonald | $0 | $104 | -- |
| Julius Brown | $339 | $89 | -73.7% |
| Robert Woodson Quinn | $237 | $73 | -69.2% |
| Pan Creek, LLC | $542 | $67 | -87.6% |
| Lynn Gregory Mills | $285 | $58 | -79.6% |
| Norman A. Tharrington | $43 | $43 | 0% |
| Carson S. Bowden | $0 | $33 | -- |
| Carolyn R. Sutton | $698 | $32 | -95.4% |
| Jerry Casey | $140 | $26 | -81.4% |
| Susan Drake Boyd | $0 | $13 | -- |
| Shelby P. Mizelle | $1,326 | $8 | -99.4% |
| Doris Richardson Felder | $0 | $6 | -- |
| Virginia Busby | $478 | $3 | -99.4% |
| AgCarolina Farm Credit, ACA | $4,620 | $0 | -100% |
| Alice Heath Bullard | $524 | $0 | -100% |
| Carol Brittain Flowers | $10,439 | $0 | -100% |
| Jameson Quinn | $1,350 | $0 | -100% |
| Julia M. Bircher | $5,901 | $0 | -100% |
| Leslie Conway Pinkston | $322 | $0 | -100% |
| Tamala S Hosteller | $44 | $0 | -100% |
| Donald A. Heath | $2,090 | $0 | -100% |
| Johnny M. Russell | $220 | $0 | -100% |
| Louise Hodges | $1,191 | $0 | -100% |
| Marion Parnell West JR | $105 | $0 | -100% |
| C-Star Oyster Company | $2,031 | $0 | -100% |
| Aleisha Curtis | $488 | $0 | -100% |
| David Parker | $34,357 | $0 | -100% |
| Farm Service Agency | $11,364 | $0 | -100% |
| Farm Service Agency/Commodity CRE | $49,837 | $0 | -100% |
| Fenner E. Morris | $3,935 | $0 | -100% |
| Harold W Mattison and Mary C Mattison Trust | $1,405 | $0 | -100% |
| James F. Ward | $1,792 | $0 | -100% |
| John C. Bircher III | $34,584 | $0 | -100% |
| Joseph A. Bledsoe III | $328 | $0 | -100% |
| Nedgelena S Jennings | $4,157 | $0 | -100% |
| Rebecca G. Liberty | $2,805 | $0 | -100% |
| Anderson Farms Jackie L. Anderson | $1,157,458 | $0 | -100% |
| Georgia N. Kirkman | $1,020 | $0 | -100% |
| James L. Kirkman Jr. | $275 | $0 | -100% |
| Lucille F. Adams | $7,976 | $0 | -100% |
| Michael Braxton | $1,693 | $0 | -100% |
| Michael W. Thornton | $100 | $0 | -100% |
| Warren Carson Jones | $1,437 | $0 | -100% |
| Total subsidies | $6,773,370 | $4,083,357 | -39.7% |
Alerts Sign-up