Record · Recipient

John H Thelen

The Farm Service Agency recorded $3,320 paid to John H Thelen of Westphalia, MI in 2011 to 2013, across 5 payments under 1 program.

What the record holds

$3,320
Paid: Net of any repayment. This payee has none on record.; 5
Payments: One row of USDA’s file is one disbursement, not one year and not one program.; 1
Program: Named in the file itself, so this is what the money was for as USDA records it.; 1
County office: The offices that administered the payments, which is not where any land is.

USDA mails this payee’s payments to Westphalia, MI 48894. That is where a check goes, not where a farm is: a payee can be addressed to an accountant in another state. The street line is in FSA’s payment files, and not printed here.

How this compares

Received, net: $3,320, 2011 to 2013: By net total, ranks 3,483,754th of 6,246,979 payees nationally and 63,160th of 117,698 with an address in Michigan. More than 44% of the 6,246,979 payees in FSA’s payment files, 2004 to 2025, by net total received.

What the payments were for

Farm program payments to John H Thelen by program, 2011 to 2013
Program	Paid	Payments
Dcp - Direct	$3,320	5

By year

USDA paid John H Thelen $1,146 in 2013, its latest year, and $924 in 2011, its first

What the Farm Service Agency paid this payee in each calendar year, the year USDA disbursed the money, in each year’s own dollars. A year with no payment is a gap.

Source: The Farm Service Agency

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The figures

USDA paid John H Thelen $1,146 in 2013, its latest year, and $924 in 2011, its first. What the Farm Service Agency paid this payee in each calendar year, the year USDA disbursed the money, in each year’s own dollars. A year with no payment is a gap.
Year	Paid
2013	$1,146
2012	$1,250
2011	$924

Farm program payments to John H Thelen by calendar year
Year	Paid	Payments
2013	$1,146	1
2012	$1,250	2
2011	$924	2

The calendar year USDA disbursed the money, which is frequently not the year of the program it was paid under. The site holds the years listed here and no others.

Which offices paid

3 more columns on a wider screen

The FSA offices that paid John H Thelen
County	State	Paid	Payments	Office total, 2025	Office rank
Clinton	Michigan	$3,320	5	$8.9 million	974

In 2025 the FSA office for Clinton County, MI paid $8.9 million, 974th of 3,068 county offices. The county’s page has its payments, payees and what Michigan was paid for.

Nearby on this site

A payee's neighbours here are the other recipients paid through the same state's offices, not the farms next door: FSA publishes no location, only the address it pays.

What the Farm Service Agency paid in Michigan
Sackett Potatoes $2.3 million
Valley Farms LLC $1.7 million
Kleinheksel Farms $1.5 million
Ronald Rasch Farms LLC $1.3 million
Lennard Ag Company $1.2 million
Crossroads Blueberry Farm, LLC $1.2 million
Brookside Farms, LLC $918,997
Sackett Ranch Inc $917,073

The largest recipients Michigan's offices paid in 2025, which is one year rather than the years above.

Sources

Farm program payment files — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 24, 2026

Compiled automatically from Farm program payment files by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

Data retrieved September 24, 2026