Data on Minn. subsidies, programs

1995-2010: $15.2 billion (No. 4 nationwide)

* 70 percent of farms collected payments

* 62 percent of payments went to 10 perent of farms

* Most common: corn, with 90,115 recipients

Top programs, 1995-2010:

1. Corn subsidies, $7.4 billion

2. Soybean subsidies, $2.6 billion

3. Conservation Reserve Program, $1.6 billion

4. Wheat subsides, $1.47 billion

5. Disaster payments, $703 million

Clay County details, 1995-2010

1. Wheat subsidies, $103 million

2. Soybean subsidies, $48 million

3. Corn subsidies, $42 million

4. Conservation Reserve Program, $37 million

5. Disaster payments, $25 million

Top individual recipients in Minnesota, 1995-2010:

1. Harvest States Cooperatives, St. Paul, $46.3 million

2. Molitor Bros. Farm, Cannon Falls, Minn., $6.0 million

3. Oberg Farms Partnership, Moorhead, $4.9 million

4. Hector Farms II Partnership, Hector, $4.5 million

5. Hader Farms Partnership, Zumbrota, $4.3 million

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