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Kenneth Merges

The Farm Service Agency recorded $909.7 thousand paid to Kenneth Merges of Colman, SD in 2011 to 2025, across 235 payments under 21 programs.

What the record holds

$909.7 thousand
Paid
$909,684
Net of any repayment. This payee has none on record.
235
Payments
One row of USDA’s file is one disbursement, not one year and not one program.
21
Programs
Named in the file itself, so this is what the money was for as USDA records it.
2
County offices
The offices that administered the payments, which is not where any land is.

USDA mails this payee’s payments to Colman, SD 57017-6507. 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.

What the payments were for

Farm program payments to Kenneth Merges by program, 2011 to 2025
ProgramPaidPayments
CRP Payment - Annual Rental$251,558107
Agricultural Risk Coverage Program - County$99,98662
Tmp/Mfp 2019 Non Specialty Crops$83,9493
Emergency Relief Program-Non-Specialty Crops$81,5654
Market Facilitation Program - Crops$71,3823
Agricultural Risk Coverage - Individual$56,50914
Supplemental Disaster Relief Non-Specialty Crops 1$46,4271
CFAPCCA2$46,2721
Emergency Commodity Assistance Program$41,7232
WHIP Plus 3 Assistance$40,5106
CFAP3 - TUP$29,9111
CFAPCCCCA$14,4182
CFAPCARES$13,0042
CRP Payment - Annual Rental$12,58917
Emergency Relief Program Track 1-Non-Specialty Crops$8,0671
Livestock Forage Program$5,1123
CFAP3 - LTU$2,6211
ECPCOF$1,4021
Emergency Livestock Relief Program$1,3902
Livestock Forage Program$6971
Emergency Livestock Relief Program-2023-24$5911

By year

Farm program payments to Kenneth Merges by calendar year
YearPaidPayments
2025$115,45024
2024$31,28213
2023$34,33611
2022$108,67915
2021$75,95216
2020$196,80432
2019$93,23118
2018$97,49016
2017$21,17213
2016$44,61523
2015$62,32422
2014$9,2958
2013$6,4667
2012$6,21010
2011$6,3797

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

The FSA offices that paid Kenneth Merges
CountyStatePaidPayments
MoodySouth Dakota$865,199217
LakeSouth Dakota$44,48518

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.

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

Sources

Data retrieved